Sick and tired of those obnoxious product placement ads in your favorite YouTube video? Tired of loud and annoying commercials during your Thursday afternoon binge sesh? Can’t believe how someone would sell themselves out for such crummy products that you’d never buy? Hate those unskippable ads that pop up at the most inopportune times?
You’re not alone. But you are also not the first to experience this outrageousness of public product promotion during your mindless entertainment.
Imagine sitting on some rock hard marble watching a man brutally destroy a lion while wearing nothing but a loincloth and flip flops proceeding to explain how you would never believe what a life transformation switching to Geico was.
That’s right! In ancient Rome during battles in the colosseum, the gladiators would flaunt their sponsored products to all those watching. Imagine that. But back then, there was no ad-block (unless you consider a swift kick to the neck by the bull that was playing dead ancient ad-block). Those audience members had to sit there and watch the promotional content.