how do internet advertising companies pervade the lie that internet

If it didn't work, nobody would blow money on it.
Their goal isn't to sell you a product right away, it's to remind you that they exist so next time you want [thing], you might remember that [brand] exists and they might have what you're looking for.

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i used to work for WPP using econometrics to estimate the effectiveness of advertising, internet channels don't work, tv works

They simply prey on the desperation of company managers. I tell ours it's a load of shit (I work in IT, they come to me for that kind of stuff) but they get it into their heads that the reason the company is failing is because it's not "no. 1 on Google", rather than the reason it's not no. 1 on Google is because it's an irrelevant little company with little to no reputation in a sea of much bigger fish with big names who everyone's heard of.

Being unwilling to face the truth, they'll believe that if you throw enough money at people in suits who say they can get you to the top of Google, you can become one of the blue chip multi-billion types that spawned from the .com boom.