Submitted 1 year ago by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
A few genuine signals quickly become noise as everyone tries to be heard, demanding more and louder signals to stand out.
I think you mean advertising; and mostly brand advertising.
“Marketing” also includes things like market research, which don’t necessarily involve advertising at all.
Fair, albeit I think many outside of the field are inclined to bundle the two together given how closely they coordinate. Plus it’s a shower thought post, so not meant to appear too well thought out.
It’s like feudalism. The feudal lord is important because they protect you… from other feudal lords.
Marketers ruin everything. — a fellow marketer
The only reason we all don’t target marketers as public enemy number 1 is because all our public enemies are giving to us by marketeers
Race to the button
Race to the bottom
Race to the bottom
Again
Most obvious confirmation is products claiming all the things that aren’t in them, like chocolate treats with “NO asbestos”
iirc some countries already prohibit advertising the lack of something that would not normally be in similar products.
And if you don’t market at all, you are screwed.
Except for some very special cases, it is a necessary evil.
Really? I disagree. I have this crazy belief that high value, high quality goods do not need advertising. Instead they create their own reputation and word spreads organically.
Then as profits begin to increase they will cheap out on materials and labour to eek out a few dollars more and destroy themselves because this is the game.
I remember reading a thing years ago that basically said that once a business of any kind reaches a certain point, it becomes more of a marketing firm than what it originally set out to do.
See bullshit jobs, goon
Mandatory Bill Hicks standup piece on Marketing.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Preach. They are doing shit like pasting ads on top of the pitcher’s mound during baseball games and playing commercials an gasoline pump screens. It’s pathological.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
I don’t like sports that much but I bet I could sit through a game if there weren’t fucking ads for shit I don’t want everywhere.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Have you tried letting them track everything you do for
targetedpersonalized ads that will absolutely nail what you want? /sBoozilla@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I enjoy watching sports but the ads and greed greatly diminish the experience. NFL is probably the worst of the worst.
pseudorandom@kbin.social 1 year ago
Most gas pumps have a button you can press to mute the obnoxious ads. Usually second down on the right.
Boozilla@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It varies. At one place I used to go to, you could mute them. But they disabled the mute button, so I stopped going there.
At a different place, I accidentally went into an admin menu (by pressing several buttons at once) and that made me nervous, so I stopped screwing with the buttons. While it’s very tempting to try and hack them, everything is on CCTV now. It’s probably a crime here in the United States of Corporatism.
Fortunately there are still gas stations close to my job where I can fuel the vehicle in relative peace. I’d rather give those places my business.
GuybrushThreepwo0d@programming.dev 1 year ago
I’m sorry, you have ads where now?
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 year ago
I’ve been trying every button on the pumps I’ve been to and none of them work. I think advertisers are onto us.