Marketing is supposed to increase demand for a product or service but it doesn’t always work that way. What do you use less or even stopped using because of the company’s marketing?
Lol Facebook. It wakes itself after a forced stol and spasms notifications
Anything Google, but it’s not because of their advertising- it’s just because of who they are.
I have never played, nor do I know anyone who has ever played, Raid: Shadow Legends
youtube used to recommend me dumb phone reviews. good luck using an authenticator dumbass.
We should be switching to yubikeys anyways
A huge marketing budget is always a red flag that the product is overpriced garbage. Beats headphones and red bull come to mind. They gotta fund that marketing budget somehow.
Dude, Raycon spends so much on marketing I will never take them seriously.
Not really things that I can use less. But I really hate when companies that are already fully saturated (or basically have monopolies) really push ads for their shit. Example being shit like Spectrum. While there are now more options in my area for internet (AT&T did start laying fiber in my area like last summer), it really just seems like all the money put into the marketing departments could be saved. Same goes for AAA games.
We keep seeing how all the major fucking companies keep purging staff or dev studios they bought do to sales “not meeting expectations.” But it seems like they should be cutting marketing first. Every “gamer” I know is already aware that something was announced with a release date via YT trailers and gaming outlets that were already going to cover it. So pushing so many more millions of dollars into shit really just looks like wasted money.
Marketing is just a euphemism for propaganda. I avoid all of it as much as possible.
Agreed. Generally speaking, advertising is a sign that a product is crap and should be treated with suspicion and probably avoided. If it can’t provide obvious value on it’s own without someone resorting to propaganda to convince you to buy it, then it’s by definition not something anyone actually needs or wants.
If something is actually inherently useful on it’s own merits, then it doesn’t need to have marketing created for it, because you’ll find it when you identified a need and actively research a solution on your own.
Take for example almost any great FOSS software. I’m not using Lemmy right now because of a manipulative roadside billboard telling me to do it. I didn’t switch to Linux because a TV ad made it sound like a requirement. I’m not using Blender because of brand placement in a movie.
Any of the charities that go door to door, won’t take a one time donation and insist on setting up monthly payments forever, and keeps trying to guilt trip you even after you refuse.
If you act like a sleazy salesperson while trying to get me to donate to a supposed good cause, I’m going to assume you have more to gain than the people you’re claiming to help.
Almost anything at this point. It feels like the “first hit is free” modus of drug dealers.
Everything that YouTuber / Instagram influencers present.
I tried Magic Spoon based on a YouTube sponsor and I was rather disgusted with the way it tasted and felt.
Same. I initially decided to try it to see if it was even close to as good taste wise as it is advertised. Also because it is gluten-free and might be something my dad might like since he had to switch to GF. But none of the four boxes really came close to being similar to what they would replace. And the price (that they make such a point about being “affordable”) was like two or three times more expensive than better options we did find.
It really reminds me that basically everything that is called “affordable” on most social media is really pushed to tech-bro/massive city areas. Which $7~9 might be “affordable” if in super high cost of living cities. Just like how most of the “hot” tech things or trends tend to act like other places are just as “modern.” Most small towns/rural areas are always like a decade behind on things. Which makes it beyond difficult to help regular people with basically everything tech-wise at my job. Which I won’t make my already long reply even longer by ranting more.
I once heard a Youtuber list all the things that aren’t in it, and I was like, “wait, then what is it made of?”
I drink 2% milk without questioning what the other the 98% is.
If I see something advertised or pushed by them i immediately question the integrity of the product. I can’t trust them or the brand.
Anything like this, It has the opposite the intended effect
basically any product advertised just because i’m spiteful like that lmao
I will never buy Native because their ads are fucking everywhere. I will watch them back to back on YouTube when I’m on the living room AppleTV because unlike my laptop I can’t block it there. And I resent them for it.
Tigera, DataDog, Splunk - spam, harassing phone calls (on personal cell at that), then more spam. GTFO. I even had one of them tell me “We’re a legitimate company in this field you know!” and I’m like “Yes, I do know, you’re one of just three companies that come to mind when I think of ${x}, but now as a result of your spammy ‘marketing’ tactics, I will not EVER be doing business with you!”
This is yet another reason why critical IT shit should be open source whenever possible. Are you paying your staff to fix shit or deal with telemarketers pretending they know what the fuck they are talking about? Just toss that into the pile.
Where I used to work, incoming sales calls from these guys were transferred to an endless phone tree. “Oh, you want to talk to (I forget what department name we gave the black hole). Here I’ll get you over to them.” They would be sent in an endless phone tree that never went to a human. It just never ended. We were a ringcentral shop and my boss was a master with the phone traps.
On a side note: did you know rust desk is free and does all you actually need it to do?
In about 2014 or 2015, there was a Mission Impossible movie being advertised with this annoying song that went “Ready or not, here I come” in an annoying nasally voice.
It played ahead of every Youtube video I watched for at least a month.
I will never watch another Mission Impossible movie again, I will not watch another Tom Cruise movie ever again, I don’t think I’ll watch any new spy or action movies ever again, and I may never watch a movie of any kind ever again.
I’m a vengeful asshole given to doing brain surgery with a back hoe.
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Ha! I actually did look into them a while back and their rates are horrible! I laughed!
Duolingo
It was their transition to AI that got me out. The incessant notifications were a close second.
