On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> wrote:
> here (Germany) we still have those TV ads for beer, and I can assure
> you that the advertised brands (its not up to me to decide whether
> they are rubbish or not) are the ones that are available virtually
> everywhere, so I believe that it is safe to assume that they are
> also the brands that sell.
> So yes, unfortunately at least in some cases advertisements apparently
> pay.
If they didn't pay, companies would have stopped sinking vast amounts
of effort and expense into them a century ago.