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People are complex and have multiple mechanisms?

Food might not need any special tricks because we're pretty wired to interpret images into flavors.

For porn - I was going to say: "...when was the last time porn needed ads? - aren't the ads basically a demo?

Alcohol (AFAIK?) advertises on the "mind-share" effect: when you're going to buy something, which is the thing you've heard of the most?

Reality TV is the interesting one - I wonder, what percent of the advertising screen time is spent on audience reactions?



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