Actually a bad commercial ISN'T necessarily good if someone remembers the name. For example, there's a local bedroom furniture sales company (which I won't identify but anybody who listens to the radio in Los Angeles will probably recognize), whose name I am unlikely to ever forget, but whose ads have been so irritating that even though I will probably be buying a new bed this year I will not even LOOK at their offerings.
You're right, though, that the ones who pay the spammers are usually the folks who hire them to spam, not the idiots who actually bite on them.
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Actually a bad commercial ISN'T necessarily good if someone remembers the name. For example, there's a local bedroom furniture sales company (which I won't identify but anybody who listens to the radio in Los Angeles will probably recognize), whose name I am unlikely to ever forget, but whose ads have been so irritating that even though I will probably be buying a new bed this year I will not even LOOK at their offerings. You're right, though, that the ones who pay the spammers are usually the folks who hire them to spam, not the idiots who actually bite on them.