Crazy Marketing Claims in Ads

paperpudding

yes, some people who are retired or shift workers - but seems an interesting marketing pitch when most people wouldn't do that i n the first place.

Especially not "milennial women" who wouldnt be in retired age group.

springlering62

I’d get up earlier if I could, but I’d just end prowling the neighborhood in my jammies with the dog and adding yet another workout…..yikes. There’s just no point, sadly.

A friend sent a YouTube link to the original 1926 animated movie, the very first. It looked intriguing so I settled in to watch, only to be immediately besieged by a VERY LOUD AD FOR STUCK POOP, featuring some stupid women in fluffy bathrobes discussing same, including how it affected their weight

It was gross, it was obnoxious, it was offensive, and it was disgusting.

I’m pretty cheesed about it. Does no one at YouTube vet the dang ads before unleashing them on their clients?

No, wait Don’t even answer that

drmwc

My mum typically wakes up at about 10 each day… I'm pretty sure I will once I retire, unless I have an early ropes off. Diving takes precedence over comfort.

paperpudding

but the ad said causes weight in millenial women - they are not retired age group.

springlering62

ever since the “stuck poop” adI’m in a horrible cycle of suggestions, most of which are either so shocking or vulgar I can’t even bring myself to mention them. What happened?

All I did was innocently look at a 99 year old animated movie posted on YouTube?

I very rarely even look at YouTube. These are coming up as suggestions on recipe sites, Good Housekeeping and the like.

AnnPT77

Loosely and generally speaking, internet advertising is managed by advertising concentrators, so we're interacting with one of the same few big advertising concentrators even as we go to different online sites. The sites sell advertising space to the concentrators, sort of. For sure, most sites aren't contracting directly with companies that want to advertise their products online.

On top of that, there are outfits usually called brokers who track lots of information about us including things like what we visit or click on, our demographics, guessed locations, and more; then they package and sell that to the companies delivering the advertising so they can target us. The brokers include outfits like Experian, whose overall business portfolio includes credit reporting.

We're going to see generally the same advertising content repeated from one site to the next, kind of, because of how the underlying business works. Clicking on a ad to check it out will serve us more ads of that type or from that advertiser. Probably visiting a site like MFP will get us more health and fitness content in our ads, including some skeezy stuff like we're seeing here.

In the mix, there's some contracting between these outfits about what kinds of sites the actual company being advertised is willing to appear on, and what kinds of ads a site is willing to have show up on its site, but it's fairly general categories, comparatively speaking. For example, might not see "adult" products advertised on a family site, or extreme political content on mainstream consumer retail sites who want to sell to everyone across the political spectrum.

John772016

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48636824#Comment_48636824

Pretty sure 'Stuck Poop' is now your future @springlering62! Better on your internet then yourself!

I've noticed lately several real 'friends' on Facebook asking me to vote on 'something', generally artistic, paintings, music, etc that they or their friends/family have entered and are trying to win.

Seriously received 4 of these in the last week, all from millennials & genZ thinking their life goals will be solved (& some GenXer's who have reached out on the other's behalf) basically begging me to vote for them, so they can 'win' some pseudo artistic contest they entered.

Except, I checked & the 'entries' with the Company actually running this 'contest' & they are collecting a ridiculous amount of information, in their effort of 'securing the vote' (huh?) and ensuring you are who you say you are…. Um, piss off?
Their only purpose is to collect my information so they can sell it. All of these, in the last weeks, go back to the exact same Company. I know because I checked each of them.

All of it is crap, regardless of the prize, it's run by a data collection service. That's their purpose explained on their own website!

But don't worry - *… these sites promise they will keep your name, address, telephone and credit card data completely secure."
They won't, they're in business to sell you're data so, vote away on these useless contests!! to make some youngling feel good about their pseudo talent? Sigh!

Is there anyway to inform millennials & genZ and misguided GenXer's they are being data mined so they understand what they are doing is stupid?

Lietchi

The stuck poop adds are spreading 😳 with video ads too, yuck.

Some bug's intestines I'm guessing? I wanted to post the picture behind a spoiler but I can't, so I'll do it differently:

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springlering62

Intestinal purification is so much more …errrr…..palatable in French, right?

springlering62

@John772016

As if they’d listen to us. My daughter in Europe almost fell for a toll scam, but luckily checked her toll account first.

She was surprised. It was the first time she’d heard of it over there.

My other daughter piped up and said my parents had fallen for a couple of fake “need money” calls purporting to be from her. First I’d heard of it. This was a few years ago, before the voice cloning was even a thing. First I’d heard of it. I’m not sure I want to know any more. Moot point. Both have passed. Why stew over it now.

John772016

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/48647719#Comment_48647719

I'm sure they wouldn't….but I got to rant about it and at least I felt better after 😂