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William Gibson could probably give you some ideas on what that says about us. He started writing about this fictionally decades ago.

Or Stanislaw Lem

Really? Could you share the titles.

I'd say start with The Cyberiad. It's fun and approachable.

Or Douglas Adams in the Dirk Gently books.

Charles Stross, too.

Or Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

(Or Alvin Lucier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room)

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

That's one of the best SF books ever.

That is already happening to an extent, except the wares being promoted are the ads themselves and they're being sold in sub-second auctions where the bidders are different algorithms operating on behalf of various companies.

Somewhat related: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358

reminds me of Google Will Eat Itself: http://www.gwei.org/