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Underrated feature of local media pre-digital is that the revenue team was a filter on the quality/trust of advertisements reaching the market.

20/10/26, 4:35 pm1 repost3 likes

Damon Kiesow

@kiesow.net

By comparison - the garbage products you have to sit thru during any prime time sporting event would have made a 1980s alt-weekly editor cringe.

Matt Boggie

@mattboggie.com

Exacerbated by the fact that lots of TV advertising is in connected apps, including those from the cable company itself. If I’m signed into the Spectrum app, the whole family sees enterprise software, life insurance, and “enhancement” pill ads.

Damon Kiesow

@kiesow.net

Remember when tech was going to improve advertising for both producer and recipient.

Ben Temchine

@abuasher.bsky.social

So much removal of “friction” just took Decisions away from people with a connection to real life and shifted it to algorithms designed and run by sociopaths. The decisions are still made by humans, just worse ones.