I remember years back I was advertising on Facebook. I had a 100 dollar ad budget and they were charging 5 cents per click.
So that's 2,000 clicks.
So, that'd be fine, except this was a restaurant, and we burned through the ad budget fast. Like, about a week maybe?
This was only a city of 100,000 people and the ad was set to be a local ad, so you'd expect that if nearly 2% of people not just saw the ad but visited the website, you'd see a huge boost in sales, right?
Not really... of all the ad campaigns we ran, facebook used the money up fastest, claimed to have achieved the most clicks, and yet had the least impact.
That experience led me to strongly believe that there's a lot of ad fraud going on.
So that's 2,000 clicks.
So, that'd be fine, except this was a restaurant, and we burned through the ad budget fast. Like, about a week maybe?
This was only a city of 100,000 people and the ad was set to be a local ad, so you'd expect that if nearly 2% of people not just saw the ad but visited the website, you'd see a huge boost in sales, right?
Not really... of all the ad campaigns we ran, facebook used the money up fastest, claimed to have achieved the most clicks, and yet had the least impact.
That experience led me to strongly believe that there's a lot of ad fraud going on.
"This is a new pardon system where if you use your pardon 10 times you get a free sandwich from the white house commissary"
That's one of the things I find most annoying about the whole "deepfake AI" thing. You could doctor photos and videos long before AI automated the process. People did it all the time. In fact, I remember when I was a kid in the 90s, there was a whole commercial about a house hippo whose whole point is that even back then you could do a really good job making footage that was totally fake so people should think for themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvPwJQXzHm0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvPwJQXzHm0
I started with the second game in the series, and although it's not the classic the first one is, it was still a lot of fun too.
Breaking: Justin Trudeau just announced his resignation. He just prorogued Parliament and is resigning as head of the liberal party. Still PM until the next election though.
Yeah, only positive thing is he immediately went back to posting normal content.
I swear shit like "the guy who discovered DNA was a double helix was tripping on acid" is a psyop.
Don't do drugs frens, and if you do, keep your streaming equipment locked up.
I swear shit like "the guy who discovered DNA was a double helix was tripping on acid" is a psyop.
Don't do drugs frens, and if you do, keep your streaming equipment locked up.