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No offense but in a world that includes video why will advertisers pay for text? This article is less thought-out than clickbait ads


First because it's not an either-or situation. Marketing works by finding different channels and approaches. You could say "in a world with video, why would people pay for an ad on a bus stop" with the same logic.

Secondly because advertisement is about trust. For a while, the ads on TV where all the rage because, if it's on TV then it's a proper brand. If in the short term future, like I postulate, the web becomes unreadable SEO filled trash, and people access it via Chat-GPT like technologies, then there will be an element of trust between the bot and the user. And that trust can be exploited, more or less subtly.

So why would they not take advantage of it?




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