Your analysis is perfect. We are being treated as guinea pigs. Advertisements are everywhere. In newspapers, on television and internet we see a lot of ads. instead of becoming a medium of delivering knowledge, Media has become a tool of propagating false information. We are consistently being bombarded with so much information that our mind becomes numb and conditioned as per the desire of the manipulators.
Advertisement is not a bad thing. In fact it is the tool of conveying message from a company, about a product, to us. Without advertisements we won't be able to learn about a product but the way these advertisement are created is a mater of concern. The hidden message behind these ads can manipulate our thought process and we won't realize it either. This is the mastery of this whole business.
Only awareness can save us from this menace.