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13 votes
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Selling subversion
16 votes -
Surviving the Steam Next Fest | Cold Take
7 votes -
Why a tire company gives out food’s most famous award
15 votes -
The economic secret hidden in a tiny, discontinued pasta
46 votes -
Hot Dr Pepper from the 1960s
11 votes -
Nickelodeon Studios | Abandoned
16 votes -
Marketing company claims that it actually is listening to your phone and smart speakers to target ads
34 votes -
US court orders Balance of Nature to stop sales of supplements after FDA lawsuits
7 votes -
The rise and fall of America's favorite junk foods | Rise and Fall
10 votes -
Is cinema dying? And if so, who is responsible? – A murder mystery
23 votes -
Valve doesn't sell ad space on Steam so it can make room for surprise hits: 'We don't think Steam should be pay-to-win'
76 votes -
So I suspect my rideshare driver might have been earning extra for viral marketing
So I rarely take rideshare, but sometimes it's important. Today, my driver was friendly, chatty, personable, driving a brand new Ford electric vehicle. He mentioned that he had spent more than a...
So I rarely take rideshare, but sometimes it's important. Today, my driver was friendly, chatty, personable, driving a brand new Ford electric vehicle. He mentioned that he had spent more than a decade selling for an auto dealership before starting to drive. He bragged about the car, the price, the fact that it's built like a tank and safe in a crash. He talked down Tesla and Elon Musk for faults and failings I'm sure most of us can imagine without effort. He had an answer for every anecdote I told about my car experiences that brought the conversation back around to the advantages of this make and model of car, including the fact that cars are significantly cheaper than a couple of years ago.
It wasn't a terrible experience but I feel bemused, puzzled, a little annoyed, a little bit impressed. It's creative if this is in fact a strategy not a coincidence.
Can anyone relate to this experience? What are your thoughts?
28 votes -
Temu: What it is, and why it matters
37 votes -
‘The Creator’ looks to turn moviegoers into believers: How Disney marketed Gareth Edwards’ original sci-fi pic
15 votes -
Many of today’s unhealthy foods were brought to you by Big Tobacco
20 votes -
Ministers set to ban single-use vapes in UK over child addiction fears
30 votes -
A literary history of fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials
27 votes -
The crazy VW Beetles that conquered Antarctica
7 votes -
The real Betty Crocker's pineapple upside down cake
17 votes -
Ads don’t work that way (2014)
16 votes -
Are unwanted Reddit push notifications a new thing?
I haven’t touched reddit since the APIcalyspe. I’m planning to delete my account but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I was a heavy Apollo user on iOS but never subscribed to it for its push...
I haven’t touched reddit since the APIcalyspe. I’m planning to delete my account but haven’t gotten around to it yet. I was a heavy Apollo user on iOS but never subscribed to it for its push notification service, instead I kept the official reddit app installed and the only thing I used it for were its notifications. I still have both apps installed.
Anyway, I was surprised to see one pop up yesterday, especially since it wasn’t connected to my user activity (a new private message or reply to an old comment of mine or something). The notification was just an ad. More specifically, it was promoting some trending post on the site that had “>12,000 upvotes.” In many many years of having the app installed I’ve never seen that before. Is it new?
Reddit’s had a mildly antagonist relationship with its users for ages, but it feels like they are REALLY intensifying things now. I’m glad I got off the train when I did. And sorry for making yet another post about reddit, I think we’re all getting tired of harping on it here.
53 votes -
Inside ‘Barbie’s’ pink publicity machine: How Warner Bros. pulled off the marketing campaign of the year
36 votes -
Musicians of Tildes, how do you promote your music?
My band are releasing a new single on the 5th August, another later in the year, and a third early next year. We've released a few tracks already, but we never seem to get much traction when...
My band are releasing a new single on the 5th August, another later in the year, and a third early next year. We've released a few tracks already, but we never seem to get much traction when trying to promote them. The band has agreed that a different approach is probably needed, and so we're open to a bit of experimentation. So, musos of Tildes: how do you go about promoting the music you release?
21 votes -
How the ‘Barbie’ vs ‘Oppenheimer’ online discourse is helping both films: It’s no longer a case of “Either/or” that it first appeared to be but rather “Which one first?”
28 votes -
Why Lego won – the competition looked identical, so how did they pull it off?
10 votes -
Stop silly security awards
6 votes -
Yes, ‘Scream VI’ marketing is behind the creepy Ghostface sightings causing scares across the US
3 votes -
Netflix dropped ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ after the Super Bowl five years ago – why streamers are unlikely to try that surprise strategy again
5 votes -
The marketing buzzwords that developers hate
5 votes -
Pickup trucks: From workhorse to joyride
6 votes -
‘Bros’ director, producer open up about “confusing” opening weekend and the fierce debate it sparked
8 votes -
The creepy smiling people from “Smile" invaded a bunch of Major League Baseball games last night
3 votes -
How A24 became the ultimate film cult
8 votes -
Massive film marketing spends are back as summer tentpole season kicks off
2 votes -
Twenty years ago, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings changed the future of Hollywood
5 votes -
Is meat really that bad?
14 votes -
Megan Thee Stallion and fast food’s ongoing pursuit of Black buy-in
6 votes -
What's the point of a company? Philip Morris is attempting to purchase a respiratory illness treatment company, let's talk about it.
10 votes -
New Norwegian law will require advertisements where a body's shape, size, or skin has been retouched to be labeled
16 votes -
The Chinese content farms running hundreds of "factory TikTok" accounts for marketing
4 votes -
Hideo Kojima conspiracy theory ends with tears
3 votes -
Exorcising Aunt Jemima - Among calls for racial justice, several brands finally dropped racist imagery from their logos and designs. But is a real paradigm shift underway?
5 votes -
Here’s what the opt-in app tracking in iOS 14.5 means to marketers — and how they might respond
11 votes -
The art of slogans: MATH, Google Andrew Yang, Humanity First, and A New Way Forward
11 votes -
The rise and fall of white bread
8 votes -
Developer creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure and was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep on LinkedIn
14 votes -
Cyberpunk 2077's easter eggs feel like marketing
18 votes -
Put an end to marketing gimmicks and learn how to engage the new generation customers - an interview with Anthony Baker
5 votes -
The world's first internet bench
5 votes