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points by wongarsu 2 days ago | 0 comments
At the scale of a McDonalds ad campaign that seems easy to measure: go to the nearest Target parking lot and ask as many people as you can two questions: "are you vegetarian" and "did you see {description of ad here}". Then compare how which percentage of vegetarians saw the ad compared to the percentage of non-vegetarians saw the ad. There are even companies specialized in market research that will do this in a more representative and statistically rigorous way
[–] IAmBroom 2 days ago
Google has no incentive to do so. McDonalds does, but its somewhat costly to scale against ALL the ads they push.
[–] jmalicki 2 days ago
For pay-per-click ads, if the vegetarians won't click, that's a lost opportunity to show a veggieburger ad Google would have made money from.

Google has a lot of incentive to optimize this, and it's a lot of why they (and Meta) spent so much money on AI research that eventually brought us modern AI.

[–] pocksuppet 2 days ago
infinite things could confound that analysis