> How do consumers discover new products

By looking them up when they need them

Sometimes sure, but more often than not they ‘realize’ they need x thing because recently they were told they need x thing. It’s a big oroborous.

TBF trying to sell me on anything with a commercial, print advertisement, video ad, cold call, or anything else is an exercise in frustration.

Do you buy…. Paper towels? Most soaps? Specific brands of meat? Go on vacations to specific places?

Chances are, you found out at least some of those due to advertisers. No man is an island.

	▲	esseph a day ago \| parent [-]
		No, I'm pretty much a fucking island. The paper towels I'd probably change if they weren't on a grocery subscription. Soap I just rotate between a few I smelled at the store. Not to say I don't CONSUME, of course I do! I... probably don't in what seems like the ways a lot of people seem to?