u/anbk

A little insight into why bad ads (like Coach) are happening more often

A little insight into why bad ads (like Coach) are happening more often

I work at a company that routinely is the top 5 spenders for Meta/TikTok/Youtube. Everything in advertising basically falls into a funnel (awareness, consideration, conversion). Success is measured for conversion ads by how many people bought products from them via links, clicks, etc. The problem with awareness ads is that they are much harder to measure. Advertisers will let you see the basics like watch time, which will show how much the viewer watched on average before clicking away. But what a lot of advertisers really care about is called a Brand Lift Study, which these advertisers give us if we spend a certain amount. This is what those questionnaires get wrapped up into that you see on YouTube (click the following brand you recall hearing about, etc). The reason why every ad has now become the most loud, fast pace, flashing, stimulating thing imaginable is because these are the ones that ON AVERAGE (talking about 10/20/50 million views) result in the best results for questions like, which brand do you remember seeing an ad from in the last week. Because when Coach plays the ad that screams "LEFT FOOT RIGHT FOOT LEFT FOOT RIGHT FOOT" over 100 times to you in a month, you will definitely remember that coach was serving you ads.

The problem is that brands basically only care about ad recall and unaided awareness in their awareness assets, they dont care about intent, affinity, trust, etc. Higher results on a BLS -> more brand spend with the platform -> platform auto optimizes to force the most "efficient" ads to you -> higher results on the BLS, cycle repeats, ads get louder, more irritating, and you never, ever escape it.

This ultimately ends with a blank screen with a logo on it flashing 10 times a second while a voice screams "MCDONALDS"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AoBmLKztTA

u/anbk — 3 days ago
▲ 76 r/Coach

The Coach Youtube ads are doing damage to the brand at this point

At first it was like oh ok that ad was irritating. Then 6 months later after being served the same ad probably 200+ times, I am being driven insane. Left foot right foot left foot right foot. I've had 2 people in my real life mention how bad these ads are. I am served them at least twice a day, every day. I work at a mega advertiser, and we would never ever let an ad this bad be served for this long. Youtube should be giving them data on how negative the reaction is to this ad, they are ignoring it. I cannot fathom a single person alive who that ad is doing positive things for. It feels like being beat beside the head over and over again.

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u/anbk — 3 days ago

Dumbo Club (most expensive) is fully a daycare now

Photo tells the full story. A dozen more strollers parked in a second hallway. Sound of screaming toddlers hits you the second you walk in the door. Cheetos crushed into the floor. Sippy cups left on cafe tables. Unattended kids running through workout floor on iPads not paying attention. This is not what a $400/mo luxury workout club looks like, I’m done subsidizing your day care

u/anbk — 5 days ago