They're also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.
Good news! There's an ad bubble too!
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And ad blockers are the picks and shovels!
There I'd a bubble with customer relations management software as well. My company pays per email sent. The CRM has uses AI to write marketing emails.
Less than 1% of emails are getting clicked on, which leads me to believe all the main providers are automatically putting those emails into spam folders.
I don't understand why legitmate companies are not in arms over this. When that many ads are scams your customers will learn that facebook ads are scams and not buy from you either. Fool me once...
I keep getting ads for crack cocaine. Been a couple months now, every time I log into Facebook, "CRYSTAL CLEAR, 100% PURE" or some shit.
Like what are the drug cops even supposed to do now, arrest Facebook?
You gotta give us screenshots of that. Please, I beg you.
Bro there's no fucking way that's real. It just can't be. That's so bad dude...
Like what are the drug cops even supposed to do now, arrest Facebook?
We can only hope.
It’s crazy that people still use Facebook. But I bet even if you don’t use it, you’re still producing value for them when browsing unrelated websites.
The funny thing is, before Google existed, people had no idea if their marketing attempts were working. Maybe they had some ways of knowing or guessing, but there was no way to know how accurate their metrics were. Internet-based advertising, and tracking-based advertising in particular was supposed to change that.
And now that we sit here with a duopoly of advertising giants, we're back to the stage where marketers just have to trust that their provider is giving them good helpful information. And how are they supposed to know whether they really can believe it or not? They can't of course! So we've come right back to where we've started.
But considering they still spent tons of money before Google and Facebook gave them these "analytics", it looks like they probably don't even care that much.
I live in Eastern Europe. 1/3 ads I have seen during the past month while reading google news, have been scam ads. My eye is pretty trained towards them. I even reported some that I thought are REALLY crossing the line, like the one that used AI generated image of Prime Minister of my country, leading to a phishing site. Each time I've reported it to google with proof, the answer from google has always been "this does not go against our terms of service"