Comment Re:re (Score 1) 168
The nice thing about this approach is that you at least get to feel the product, and see, if only very briefly, how it works. This is completely different from television where they either associate it with beautiful people and an awesome lifestyle, or perform sketchy experiments designed to "prove" that one product is better than another.
In my opinion that way is much nicer than ads on TV. The ads are why I stopped watching.
It is, however, completely different when people are paid to simply mention a product to someone they meet in a casual social setting. Because that's basically just like the ads from television or radio, or what have you. They're trying to associate the product with the lifestyle and/or the attractive people.
Oh, and a fun thing to do when you spot some people doing the camera trick. Wait a bit, to make sure they're actually doing it, and then walk by them again, acting as if you haven't seen them before. It's amazing how frequently they'll have no idea who you are, and ask you all the same questions again. And then you can accost them. They react like scared little rabbits. Which they really shouldn't. I can't think of anyone who's ever been killed for advertising.
In my opinion that way is much nicer than ads on TV. The ads are why I stopped watching.
It is, however, completely different when people are paid to simply mention a product to someone they meet in a casual social setting. Because that's basically just like the ads from television or radio, or what have you. They're trying to associate the product with the lifestyle and/or the attractive people.
Oh, and a fun thing to do when you spot some people doing the camera trick. Wait a bit, to make sure they're actually doing it, and then walk by them again, acting as if you haven't seen them before. It's amazing how frequently they'll have no idea who you are, and ask you all the same questions again. And then you can accost them. They react like scared little rabbits. Which they really shouldn't. I can't think of anyone who's ever been killed for advertising.
