all tumblr ads are so sketchy
like if i see an ad on facebook most of the time i don’t wanna click on it but at least i generally believe there is probably a real product that they want to sell me
if i see a tumblr ad for like, a watch, my alief is that they 3d rendered the watch and it literally doesn’t exist
how do you make ads this bad! i can’t believe they’ve sunk to “literally failing to convince me that they’re marketing a real thing”
If I see a tumblr ad for a “watch”, I’d just assume that it’s an alien tentacle-frog infiltrator psychically releasing spores into my brain to disguise itself as a watch. This is my opinion of tumblr ads. None of them are from this world, none.
1) maybe nobody buys tumblr ads because they know we don’t buy things based on ads, but tumblr still has to make it look like they have ads in case anyone *does* want to buy some useless spam propaganda, so they make their own fake ads which no one will click on?
2) the only people clueless enough to buy tumblr ads are also really terrible at advertising (i once had one trying to sell me “TANKS. Sturdy, reliable, durable. London area.” no image of what sort of tanks)
possibly both
Also I’ve seen NASDAQ ads here? Legit ones, not uncanny-weird ones. Wtf. How did they decide this was right channel to advertise in, what are they even trying to sell or achieve, what.
At one point Tumblr really wanted to sell me B2B software. There are good marketing departments advertising on Tumblr, but they do it by getting actual Tumblr users to shill for them. The actual adroll stuff is like a cry for help from someone who faked their way into a job interview by pretending they had 10+ years of marketing experience.
I think part of the problem is that they’re mostly not marketing real products that people might conceivably want. I could do a better job than some of these guys, although I admit “Are you investing in the right kind of Asia?” is a lot more innocuous than some of them.