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minus-squareone_old_coder@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·22 hours agoThe CEO of the biggest French TV channel said in 2004: What we sell to Coca-Cola is available brain time (time when the brain is available) Shitty translation but source in French (it has its own article FFS!): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temps_de_cerveau_humain_disponible. He explicitly said that he was not selling to viewers but to advertisers, before the internet became mainstream.
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoFor further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
The CEO of the biggest French TV channel said in 2004:
Shitty translation but source in French (it has its own article FFS!): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temps_de_cerveau_humain_disponible. He explicitly said that he was not selling to viewers but to advertisers, before the internet became mainstream.
For further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy