Does anyone still pay attention to ads?

I think the last thing I bought because I saw it in an ad was a swiffer. That must have been 12 years ago. I don't understand why companies think that, just because I see something in an ad, I'm heavily influenced to purchase it. Maybe others do, but I personally have recently not been influenced in the least by advertisements of any kind.

I see ads everywhere. Beer, debt consolidation, gambling, coffee, women's underwear, and I can confidently say I haven't bought into any of these things recently. There was a man of whom I was told who took it upon himself to visit all the branches of starbucks coffee in the world. He later abandoned his pursuit upon discovery that they were being built faster than he could travel to see them. That being the case, I don't understand why Starbucks finds it necessary to advertise, the company is like big tobacco in the sense that they have already hooked a generation on coffee. What of me? Would I be convinced to start drinking coffee because of a commercial? In the past, peer pressure at the starbucks line-up has motivated me to buy some chocolatey, calorie-rich beverage that barely passes as coffee, and night shift in the ICU has motivated me to drink straight black stay-up juice at 4 30 am, but I am no more motivated to drink coffee (or beer, or vodka, or any alcohol) by watching these commercials. I'm also not motivated to listen to Beats by Dr. Dre, and I'm not more motivated to eat McDonald's by watching a commercial. It doesn't end there. Clothes, computers, new cellular phones, bedroom furniture, why would I run out and buy them just because I saw them in an ad?

If I need something, I'll do research into what brand or product is best, for a duration of time proportional to the amount of money spent. I shall then ask around and, finding favourable reviews, will go to the closest store that has the item for the lowest price (usually some online source). I invite any beer, coffee, or TV company (apparently there's a TV company advertising on youtube now, fat chance I'll buy into that) to send samples of their products to me and try to entice me to purchase their products and endorse their brands. Alcohol companies can send me all the free beer and vodka they would like to send, I will not try any of it and I will not buy any of it. I don't hate people who drink alcohol, I grew up around it and I'm familiar with its magical abilities, I just don't enjoy it. If I don't want to buy something, I won't buy it. No fleeting 30-second vomitus of modern multimedia is going to change my mind about that. I don't see why they continue to try.

Today was a bit of a bust productivity-wise, because apparently it's a good idea for a national examination association to post what questions you answered incorrectly without explaining why, leaving you to do the painstaking research yourself. It doesn't help that the questions are mostly completely ambiguous. Tomorrow I will rise early, and I will get things done.