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Has anyone of you ever bought/subscribed to anything from youtube sponsorships? To me everything looks like crap or scam. So I wonder - who buys it, for them to make any money.
Semi related: For decades the local greyhound adoption group had a booth at the county fair, they would bring in their greys to hang around and tell passerby about adopting retired racing greyhounds. I saw them every year growing up. Did not adopt a greyhound, as I was a kid and we already had a dog.
A decade and change later, I marry Mrs. FiveHour, and she wants a dog. She hasn't had a dog and we're both busy so I rule out getting a puppy, we'll just mess it up, but I'm a little nervous about shelter dogs as some have behavioral issues. I think to myself, well racing greyhounds are available, they're a good size (I like medium-to-large dogs), and they come pre-trained but not traumatized. We adopted one immediately, and we'd have two if it weren't for the first one being a prick to other dogs.
So a lot of times, advertising is the long con. Brand awareness is pretty important. You're not necessarily selling something today to the person who sees the ad, you're selling something years from now when they find themselves wanting something in the sector of stuff you sell.
I don't use YouTube specifically enough, and when I am using youtube a lot I just get a premium subscription to avoid ads. But I've eventually tried stuff like AthleticGreens and Momentous brand supplements, after approximately 5,000 advertisements on podcasts. BJJFanatics has a good podcast, and as a result I've purchased an instructional from them, if I get anything out of it I'll probably purchase another. Those are things I would have purchased a version of otherwise, in that just about everyone who works out eventually dabbles in supplements or instructional videos or whatever, and when the urge hit me I went to those brands rather than a different one. My Eagles' podcasts have started running ads for the rock climbing gym near me, if I didn't already go there I'd start if this was the first I'd heard of it.
So like, most of them are probably crap or scams, but if you're in the market for scams or crap, you're more likely to buy one from this particular scammer.
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