Those who follow the Idle Game thread might recall (as I'm sure I mentioned there, certainly somewhere) that a certain zombie-survival themed app was (for a long time) the predominant ad encountered on one or two of my daily check-ins. The style of ad varied, but there were quite a few live-action parodoic scenes about whether someone had various major character/loot drops and level engancements, by having signed up and used the right offer codes. The actors seemed to be a rotating set of regulars, as a kind of brand repatory company. And often (for example) the games of mine that offered up four ads in a row would serve the same ad four times.
...anyway, never did try that game out, they'd got the wrong audience (I like mapping these things out, not getting "guaranteed" advancement, and PvP/leagues is a turnoff... especially when it's possible that the next tranche of new players might be offered even greater rewards), but there's some nostalgia for those ads. Always wondered where they got their 'talent' (perhaps third-tier youtubers, who look good but quirky, from the LA area; or supporting actors who normally get no dialogue, but I bet they do a bit of both anyway).
Anyway, daily check-in just now on one of my idlers (one of the actually Idle ones!) gave me ads for a certain "unbranded/obscure brand chinese built tech store"[1] (which I've already been aware of, and have no intention. Four exactly the same ads. Live action "parody". And it looks like at least one of the two actors was in the zombie-game parodies.
For the connoiseurs amongst you, he was almost definitely the leading choice as escort 'girl' in the gender-flipped personal-services club scene. And in this he's flying a 'free'[2] camera drone. The security guard who chases him (to find out how he got the free drone) might also have been in the zombie-thing run of ads, but not so sure.
So, I look forward to months and months and months of repeated and developing ads, perhaps seeing more of the rep company from before. Somewhere along the line, probably the same third-party promoter (or at least casting agency). And I remain far more (though far from obsessively) interested in the 'nobody everymen/everywomen characters' than each thing they're promoting. It's their money (or somebody else's) to waste in pushing it to li'l ol' me. Entertain me, yes, but don't expect my participation. I leave that to others, for whom your honey actually smells sweeter.
[1] Double duty terminology. Store for chinese-built tech, and a tech-store that is itself chinese-built. With various indications that sneaky features (e.g. ability to screenshot your activity) may have been built into the app; at least at one stage, though I'm already not tempted.
[2] The repetition gave me opportunity to penetrate the blurred disclaimer that says it's only with "qualifying" purchases, and possibly new App-users only. Naturally. But I imagine the caveats will escape enough potential customers, who don't realise that they will be the product that the company makes most money out of.
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