No disadvantage in terms of reaching a mass audience

Does the bold sentence imply "it is equally clear that this lack of radical political connections has not caused any problem for the producers of the Pure Gold and Silk Cut advertisements in absorbing mass audiences (this approach did not decrease the number of their audiences)"?

Context:
Nevertheless, the neo-avant-garde still managed to introduce serious critiques of the cultural politics of establishment into the public realm and attempted to resist the institutionalisation of art. While the absence of radical political connections is obviously greater in advertising than in the work of the neo-avant-garde in art, it is equally clear that the producers of the Pure Gold and Silk Cut advertisements had practically no disadvantage at all in terms of reaching a mass audience. This is as crucial to the radicalism of these campaigns as was the decision to borrow approaches from Surrealism, a notoriously transgressive movement from the early twentieth century (Art and Advertising by Joan Gibbons).