110 sats \ 4 replies \ @nullama 29 Aug 2023 \ on: Will ads exist in the future? Will pay-to-consume p2p bitcoin ads be a thing? bitcoin
Attention is the most valuable thing you have as a person.
Yet, it is usually given away for free or very small amounts of money.
Tech giants will try every trick on the book to get to your attention. This means ads will continue to evolve, forever.
One thing some people might not realize is that anything with a "feed", like YouTube recommendations, TikTok, facebook, linkedin, etc, etc, is basically a form of ad.
Someone paid those companies to push their specific content to you.
What makes you say that feeds are a form of an ad? They definitely contain ads but I was under the impression the other stuff was just things they think you want to see
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"Normal" ads are usually simply tagged as such.
Feed "ads" are a bit more complex, because it's on the content creation side.
Basically, imagine someone wants a specific political candidate to win an election. Instead of making an ad, they would create a profile of the user watching YouTube (or whatever), and create a content specifically targeted for them. This will probably show up in the feed because the algorithm thinks it might be of interest of him.
That way, you create an ad on the feed without it being exactly an ad.
It gets a bit more complicated, but that's the basics of it.
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I see what you mean. Marketing that’s pretending to be content
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Exactly that.
And fine tuned to each person's feed.
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