An exceptionally good piece on how ads work - including a devastating attack on personalised advertising by @KevinSimler http://meltingasphalt.com/ads-dont-work-that-way/ …pic.twitter.com/2xCoED1azN
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I’d say that the targeting effect dominates when innovators (the portion of the adoption curve that buys without using popularity as a proxy for trust or value) is a large part of the addressable market, whereas the opposite is true for the effect you described.
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