Submitted 5 months ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/
“X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”
There’s the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.
Terrorists win!
Nuh-uh! Americans can’t be terrorists cuz Americans kill the terrorist, like Malcolm X and Jamal Khashoggi… Wait, are we the bad guys?
…wait, but I wasn’t playing socom…
In reality this is just them playing along, if anyone were to do anything drastic to these companies they would have a very bad time.
Max was a really kind dude when we were kids
IBM helping out the Nazis is pretty par for the course
When Hitler needed to track the unwanted in his concentration camps, IBM was there.
Today, Trump has selected IBM due to our experience in this field of Fascism.
Ah, a history joke! Don’t forget Coke(Fanta)! Also, the history of Volkswagon is pretty interesting.
The surprising part is, despite everything Henry Ford believed, I don’t remember ever hearing Ford being on that list.
We have Teslawagan and Xoebels now as well
There’s also Hugo Boss.
Good old database arms
Kinda lends itself to the theory that they are part of the Problem
I have no love for big corps, but they’re likely just reading the writing on the wall. they have to deal with retribution for the next 4-12 years and they have no interest becoming the rebels. I’m kinda impressed they stepped away at all other than it probably was money spent for nothing.
IBM supported the Nazis, and if they’re the only tech giant not fighting musk they’re going to get the kickbacks. Corps dont do “writing on the wall” anymore, they chase money, which may look similar but the goals are different.
It’s time to drop Disney+.
Should have 5 years ago. Mostly cause fuck disney, but I get why you had it.
We’ve dropped it October 2023. Fuck them Zionist shits.
We finally dropped them after this bullshit. Also Loki S2 was bad.
We just did. Only reason it took this long is because it auto-renewed this time last year for a year slightly ahead of when we thought it was gonna do that. Oops.
We dropped a few months ago, mostly because we were mostly just watching Bluey, so I just picked up Bluey DVDs and cut the service.
Oligarchs get cozy with oligarchs, what a shocker.
wow who could have predicted this considering they’re the same companies who said they wouldn’t donate to republicans after january 6th three months before they started donating to republicans again.
That’s extraordinarily on brand of them
I was going to say that’s incredibly on brand for Disney. Everything I feel I have ever heard about Comcast seems to back up this move.
I’m surprised about IBM though, more because I didn’t realize they were still around than anything else.
IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.
Horrible timing. Millions are leaving and going to BlueSky.
ads are not allowed on Bluesky. that is the reason.
Yet…
Balls, they aint got em
Disney’s clown management refused to air a trans focused episode because of the “political climate” saying that “LGBTQ+ experience are a sensitive issue” thus catering to bigots.
To be fair, knowing Disney’s track record it probably would have been as embarrassing as the short-lived super hero duo of Snowflake and Safespace…
or the Transgender Unicorn Powerpuff Girls episode
or the “Quagmire’s Dad” episode of Family Guy
or the Women’s Prison episode of “Lost Girl”
…Look I don’t trust big name mainstream companies to touch trans voices with a 69 foot pole in a way that makes me give any reaction other than “Can you just call me a slur and be done with it?”
(Though Indie platforms are a lot better at this given things like Celeste being an entire game comparing the trans experience of coming and transitioning to climbing a mountain and Helluva Boss’ actually having Millie’s Sister be a likable character who is openly trans but not on a soapbox nor a punching line. Implying her existence is valid and not worth mocking OR apologizing for.)
To be even farier, choosing neutrality in times of oppression means you side with the oppressor.
Oh I suppose they don’t need our money
I think it’s more trying to win political favor by spending big with the company owned by someone close to the incoming presidential administration.
Or it’s just wanting to market their ads on that platform and as you said, not having the balls to stick to their boycott
That seems to be what everyone involving with a political party or major corporation did… Make a big show of “We resisted him once, and we’ll do it again!” then go “Okay, everyone it’s time to line up and kiss Orange Man ass! Biden will you please get the ball rolling with some more of that high road crap?”
I almost can’t blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.
A majority of American citizens who voted…that’s an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.
Well the ones who didn’t vote obviously weren’t too bothered by fascism and racism either, apparently
That would be REALLY Corrupt if simply buying Ads on a Website was Enough to allow you to DIRECTLY INFLUENCE the President Of The United States! Fortunately Trump DIDNT put the Owner of X in charge of Important Oversight Decisions!
ITT: People realising most of the world lives outside their bubble
My favorite lemmy bubble is the smug woke ( idiot leftists, who think they are smart but aren’t) who think Kamala lost because she didn’t take a stance on Gaza and people abstained in protest and not because of sexism and racism.
I mean, there’s no singular reason for Kamala’s loss - but abstentions over the middle east were still a reasonably noteworthy problem for the campaign.
With that being said… more broadly, people are just generally awful and a lot of people bury their heads in the sand rather than acknowledging how backwards the majority really are.
I think you’re also missing a huge part of it. People don’t care about Gaza nearly as much as people here think, nor do people care about her race or gender much.
You can see a massive shift in betting odds and polls around the time she had an interview where she said she wouldn’t have done anything different than Biden. My general perception is that she didn’t really have a plan, and I think that’s true for the public. I also think the public didn’t like the comparison of Trump with Hitler. Trump, on the other hand, claimed to have a plan for fixing the economy, and I think that resonated with people, especially since the economy was good under Trump. They see the inflation during COVID as Biden’s problem (I personally blame supply chain disruption mostly, and also Trump’s spending), and Harris refused to throw Biden under the bus.
I personally blame Harris’s loss on three things:
I don’t think her being female hurt her, and it probably helped her appeal to female voters vs Trump, and Obama winning implies race doesn’t matter much either. To me, it comes down to policy and lack of a primary.
That is why she lost to though. 15 million blank ballots don’t lie.
Cowards
Good thing everyone is leaving
Doesn’t matter. They’re not doing it to get people to see their ads, they’re doing it to bribe Elon since he has actual political power now.
My electrical utility (PG&E) advertises all the time. Like what am I gonna do, not buy electricity? It’s so obviously just a bribe to the media companies.
It’s just going to be all brands, nazis and/or bots soon.
So… same-same.
And nobody was surprised. I predict most advertisers will return by the end of January for the same reasons they left previously: It’s the right business decision at the right time. Remember that the next time a corporation makes a pledge. It’s always about money.
Death to Comcast, Disney, and IBM.
I mean, that’s been an accurate statement for decades.
True. But back then they made money on advertising. Now we’re funding them directly.
Do you part - cancel the service.
This is bending the knee
I dropped Xitter as soon as it became apparent that Elon was going to buy it and started pirating Disney (and everyone else) shortly after. Couldn’t tell you the last time I bought anything IBM but I’ll have to be more careful about it. I’m switching to a local fiber provider so I’m leaving comcast in a couple of weeks.
Is it bad that for a brief moment when you said you were switching to a local fiber provider, I thought you were talking about making sure you tdke healthy poops?
Haha. I’m working on that too. Finally starting to lose fat.
Local fiber is the 100 mile diet of colon health.
Did anyone read the article? Besides the top 2, these amounts are paltry:
Data by MediaRadar showed that Comcast, which spent less than $1.5 million on X this year, was followed by Warner Bros. Discovery at $1.1 million, whose ads are supporting theatrical releases of movies, and Disney at under $550,000. Lionsgate spent less than $230,000, while IBM allocated under $2,000.
That’s embarrassing.
This is beautiful! It’s like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.
Going after the coveted racist bot market.
They don’t care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there’s no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.
People aren’t moving away from it. Of course they come back
He’ll get advertisers just as actual people leave.
Of course they are they only care about money.
Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.
They can eat their shit
of course they are, they might as well lick his asshole while they are at it. big corporations will always without exception do whatever is necessary to survive.
Had Kamela won, Musk would have been bankrupt within years, likely in jail too (his own words)
Instead of that, loads of people decided to listen to a fraidster thief rapist, and not vote for Harris.
Now we’re here and I’m so so tired.
likely in jail too (his own words)
Yes, but not for the reasons he claimed.
He would be in jail for actual criminality, not for his political opinions.
So pretty much everyone, who’s already got a reputation for being shit, or has fallen from grace completely, has returned. No surprises there
May as well it’s not like they’ll be paying for many impressions.
Badeendje@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bending the knee
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And lifting their a## up, so they are better accessible
Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Cupping the balls.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It doesn’t work that way with advertising. They need to go where their customers go. Bots don’t buy.
rezifon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This isn’t advertising, it’s tribute.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 months ago
They don’t need to advertise anywhere.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 months ago
But Twitter has been bleeding users. And since the election there has been a very public exodus by bigger names. So this isn’t about “go where the viewers are.” This is “spend money to stay on the good side of someone who might be even more inordinately powerful with an incredibly powerful and vengeful sidekick.”
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 months ago
with people leaving xhitter en masse, this is really more like bending the knee and licking assholes.