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Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names])

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On Mi, 14 iul 21, 08:02:19, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100
> > Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> >
> > (...)
> >
> >> Back when we had TV advertisements
> >> for beer, it was always the rubbish beers that got the publicity.
> >
> > here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure
> > you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide whether
> > they are rubbish or not) are the ones that are available virtually
> > everywhere, so I believe that it is safe to assume that they are
> > also the brands that sell.
> > So yes, unfortunately at least in some cases advertisements apparently
> > pay.
> 
> If they didn't pay, companies would have stopped sinking vast amounts
> of effort and expense into them a century ago.

You're giving (big) companies a lot of credit, possibly unwarranted:


Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 1: TV) (Ep. 440)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-1/

Does Advertising Actually Work? (Part 2: Digital) (Ep. 441)
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/advertising-part-2/

(the links contain the transcripts as well, for those who prefer 
reading)


Kind regards,
Andrei
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[OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable  names]) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> - 2021-07-14 17:20 +0200
  Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org> - 2021-07-14 17:50 +0200
    Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-15 20:30 +0200
  Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-15 09:00 +0200
    Re: [OT] Selling beer (was: Re: Working for free [was: Offensive  variable names]) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-15 09:10 +0200

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