Since NOTHING is free and all costs factor into a product's price, is there a way to get rid of advertising?

Question

SO broadcast tv and radio and the internet are not really free. They are littered with annoying ads. And magazines would cost 5 times more without ads. I know all this.

BUT, you are paying more for the products you buy.

So ads do not sponsor ANYTHING. They do not pay for ANYTHING. It's just moving money around, which all comes from consumers.

How much would a big mac cost if mcdonalds stopped advertising?

How much wouuld a can of Coca Cola cost if they stopped using ads?

I would rather pay more for media with NO ads but LESS for the products i used every day.

A world without ads and cheaper food and books and cars !

It sounds like heaven to me.

So why the h**l isn't this happening?

Answer 1

The guy with the sheep avatar has a very good point.

Ironically, if there was no advertising, there would be no internet. You wouldn't be able to post your complaint about advertising on this website if there were no advertisements on it.

I wonder how many programmers and designers it took to make this website and how many servers they must have had to buy. Advertising feeds them and their families.

Or do you think a better system would be to pay every single time you wanted to ask a question on this website? Or get charged every single time you wanted to do a Google or Yahoo search?

Note: I don't work in advertising, this is just my opinion.

Answer 2

Advertising creates sales.

Answer 3

Because in order for a company to do business, then people need to know the company exists and what products and/or services they offer. The only way to do this is through advertising, and the only free advertising is that of word of mouth, which isn't unreliable and usually doesn't spread as far as the company needs it to in order to produce enough revenue.

Yes, advertising is figured into the cost of a product or service, so the price increases on that alone. But the more demand for a product or service can also bring the cost of it down through producing it in bulk, so advertising also can decrease the price of a product or service.

ADDITIONAL: Coca Cola and Mc Donald's are already established companies and got that way through advertising. What about the smaller companies and the newly formed ones? What also happens when a company changes what they provide, either through discontinuing a product/service or through adding a new one?

Advertising also allows the company to place the spin on their products or services in the manner they wish it to be seen, thus helping to generate the revenue they are attempting to create. Relying on word of mouth alone could be detrimental to this and presents an unknown factor.

I suggest you try to learn more about advertising before subscribing to blanket statements about it. There is a lot more to the ins and outs of advertising than anything I mentioned here.

Get off your soapbox and start taking a realistic view of the world. Right now you have a narrow view which is dependent on only that which you choose to see. You really have no idea of what you are speaking of here. They aren't based on any real knowledge of advertising. You are behaving as a dog with a bone, fixated on one preconceived notion and unwilling to see anything beyond it. I already suggested you learn more about advertising. Knowledge is power. If you are only here to make proclamations, then this is a rant of yours instead of being a question. You aren't actually interested in learning anything or obtaining any advice by posing a question, then, but only interested in stating your point of view.

If selling a product or service (and you keep neglecting to consider selling of a service) were able to generate enough business to build up a business to world recognition through word of mouth alone, and to keep it there, then advertisement would not exist or even flourish. Advertisement has been around for eons because it works and is more effective than word of mouth.

And logos, slogans, trademark designs, etc. are all part of advertising. Anything which calls attention to the product/service advertises it. Again, read up on advertising.

Answer 4

I like your logic, I really do, and in a perfect world it would probably be like that...but it would take at least an economics professor with a ph.d to properly tell you if that could even work and how...

P.S. And for all the folks who say they don't mind the  ads, just think about how may thousands of advertisments you are probably subjected to every day...even less advertising would be very good to me.

Answer 5

Because not everyone shares the same views as you.

Some people cannot afford maybe a can of coke w/o advertising and therefore put up with up so that it is reachable.

Or others like me. don't really care about advertising. and just continue on with our lives.