If that's really true, you're unique.
Are you suggesting everyone buys things because of advertising? It seems to me that advertising in general is designed to hit that minority that is actually influenced by it rather than designed to influence everyone it hits. Spam, for example, doesn't work on most people at all. Not a single person I know, aside from a certain relative, has ever said "you know, I think I would like natural enhancement with herbs bought from some shady person in the dank recesses of the internet".
TV advertising is mentally offensive, emotionally childish and intellectually oppressive to me. I see a commercial and I think "this is stupid, who would ever be affected by something like this?". Some people apparently are, enough to make blasting it on EVERYONE's screens worth it, but somehow I doubt it's the majority, and I've never once seen a commercial and suddenly got an itch to obtain what was being shown. I don't watch a toy commercial and say "those kids are having fun, I want fun too, that product is the way, the ONLY way,I can ever have fun, EVER!". I don't even associate that item with having fun or think that anyone could possibly actually enjoy it as much as those constantly screaming artifical child drones are pretending to (plus I never have a playset or giant field nearly as large as they have access to).
Same in stores. They throw all these ridiculous attempts at grabbing my attention, like "The Hulk is standing by this drink, you should get this drink because the Hulk is standing by it, in card board form!". Or, the all too common "you could be a winner!" thing. Here's a secret, I generally don't even realize there's a contest at all except by mistake. I just look for the food I want, and it could be in a plain white bag with a standard font reading "Baked confectionaries with chocolate coating" with a list of ingrediants and I wouldn't care so long as it was delicious, and actually I'd prefer it because then I'd know exactly what I was buying.
And as for ads that try to be hilarious, it falls flat. I simply don't care about their innane little jokes, and if for some reason an ad somehow worms it's way into my memory, you can bet I won't remember enough details for it to be helpful to the company that made it. Like those commercials with that talking lizard selling cars. I have no idea what car brand the advertiser is trying to sell.
