I dislike the urgency thing. "4 more people looking at this, only 1 spot left".
I also hate when it when the ads follow me around every social media platform.
That's why I love it here. Thank you lemmy.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2024
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Fear of missing out, or FOMO, is one of the advertiser's most powerful tools.
The only marketing I don't hate is handwritten signs by the gate to a farm with addendums like "manur: $free$"
Drive-by advertising. When someone joins a forum I'm active on just to let us know about their shiny new product and doesn't participate in any other way. Even if it's relevant, it's still pretty scummy.
Has to be rubbishing the competition. Even if I've solicited the engagement, if you have to pull yourself up by putting your competitors down then you'll lose me. Tell me why you are good, not why they are bad.
Contacting me after I browse their website.
all of them. bill hicks had the only correct take on people who work in marketing
Billboards
Everything has deceptive language and other types of manipulation. I used to merchandise and learned a lot. Most ads make me angry because of this. Politics is similar but that just makes me sad.
Buy this thing! Its only $29.99!!!
"Would you like to round up your purchase, we promise that we'll give it to somebody who needs it."
Large, well known companies that just advertise that they still exist. Like, yeah, I know McDonaldsBurgerTacoBellWendySonic's exist. I pass them on every street corner. Show me an advertisement for something I don't know exists.
Resetting/moving the products on the store's shelves en masse, not because there's holes from discontinued products but because "people will stop paying attention to the shelves if everything stays the same." I'm old and in a hurry and I was here to give you my fucking money. Don't make it hard for me to give you my fucking money.
Pricing to the 9's.
Filling the shelves with a bunch of things that don't seem to sell all that well, taking up space that could have been used to keep more of the fast moving products on the retail floor, just to have the appearance of diversity on the shelves.
when movie trailers for bad movies either only show you the good reviews or stop showing up on TV once the movie is released.
Here's the thing.
I've been watching TV occasionally - she watches junk TV on this huge thing she got, and, nahhh. I usually do streaming - and every now and then an advert that comes on is actually for a product I've never heard of. It'll be something dumb like little Caesar's crazy French toast or some shit, but, to the ad's credit, I would never have known about it if I didn't see the ad.
But, 95% of ads are absolute junk. Payday loans, reverse mortgages, Dodge Rams; junk. I'd love to see the new products and Superbowl ads, and then nothing else.
All of them except one that I call the Bill Hicks Gambit
Lowering the prices making you believe that is a great deal when in reality the thing was overpriced to begin with.
@flyingsquid - this is your chance to shine!