Self praise stinks. --Czech proverb
Marketing is an unethical practice, plentifully used in capitalism, of forcing a product or corporate propaganda by means of lying, manipulation, tricks, brainwashing, torture, exploiting psychological weaknesses of people and others. This manifests most visibly as advertisements and commercials in media but also in other ways such as fake product reviews, product placement in movies etc. Advertising is ever present and unavoidable in capitalism, billboards now run along the roads instead of trees, commercials yell from electronic devices that are present everywhere, ugly cheap ads, slogans and flashing lights now cover the art of architects -- indeed, there is a promise of ads being put in the sky, people's dreams and thoughts themselves once technology allows it (so called "progress"). Marketing is one of the greatest bullshit industries ever to have seen the light of world and is not only torturing the victims, but also wasting the enormous amount of effort of those who create it.
Specific practices used in marketing are:
These practices are not rare, not even close, they are not even a behavior of a minority, not even of a small majority, they are not illegal and people don't even see them as unusual or undesirable. Stop for a moment to think about how deeply fucked up this is. People in the US are so brainwashed they even pay to see commercials (Super Bowl). Under capitalism these practices are the norm and are getting worse and worse ever year. Boiling the frog works as expected.
A naive idea still present among people is that "ethical marketing" is possible or that it's something that can be fixed by some law, a petition or something similar. In late stage capitalism this is not possible as an "ethical" marketing is a non effective marketing. Deciding to drop the most efficient weapons in the market warfare will only lead to the company losing customers and making place for competition who embraces the unethical means, eventually going bankrupt and disappearing, leaving the throne to the bad guys. You want to do ethical marketing? You're simply out, next in the line gets a shot. Laws will not help as laws are made to firstly favor the market, corporations pay full time lobbyists and law makers themselves are owners of corporations. A law that fixes marketing would be a law that simply bans it -- do you think anyone is going to do that? Even if some small law against "unethical marketing" passes, the immense force and pressure of all the strongest corporations will work 24/7 on reverting the law and/or finding ways around it, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical. You have a few peasants with banners pleading the country's broken, corrupt non-working political system to shield them from world's strongest market entities with billions of dollars at hand and thousands of full time managers and layers who's only job it is to make marketing happen by any means necessary. If you believe in a happy end then it's incredible how naive you are, you must be more naive than a kindergarden baby.
Another extremely childish idea is that "marketing serves the people by informing them of new products" :D { I don't know, I always think capitalists have at least one brain cell, but they always manage to surprise me by saying something like this. ~drummyfish } This may not even need much comment (it seems weird, like trying to explain that a book dropped from a table will fall to the ground, feels extremely stupid) but let's see: maybe in times of caveman when market was just invented ads worked like this for exactly two days until one caveman realized he can lie on the ad and if he paints a bigger picture on the wall the other caveman customers will be more likely to buy his rocks than the competing caveman's rocks; exactly at this day ads seized to be about informing people and became solely used for forcing one's products and tricking people, and trying to find ways around laws that tried to prohibit this, spawning the endless bullshit war of advertisers and law makers. It's been thousands of years now that ads have absolutely 0% informative value -- imagine an informative ad on TV, a simple white screen with text: "there is a new shampoo in the shop". This literally doesn't even give any information to the consumer, everyone knows there are shampoos in the shop. Do you think there exists any marketing company in which they wouldn't shit themselves in uncontrollable laughter if some of their employee was like "we should make our ad less intrusive, it should only inform the consumer about our product"? Are you really this braindead now?
Marketing people are subhuman. Of course, let us be reminded we love all living beings, even subhuman, but the marketing trash not only doesn't show any signs of conscience or morals, they hardly seems conscious at all, they are just a robotic tool of capitalism, more akin monkeys -- however immoral shit they get into, they always just reply "just doing my job" and "it pays well" to anything. What can you say about someone who dedicates his life to bullshit? And not just any bullshit -- bullshit that makes other people more miserable. They make the worst kind of propaganda which literally kills people, they would mercilessly torture children to death if it was on their contract. A capitalist is screeching HAHAHA IT NOT THE SAME bcuz CHILREN ARE MAGICAL n economy is pwogwesss, so this invalid. Indeed, it doesn't make any sense -- a capitalist will stay what it is, the lowest class of brainwashed NPC incapable of thinking on its own. All in all, avoid anyone who has anything to do with marketing.
Good things don't need promotion (it's true even if you disagree). The bigger the promotion, the bigger shit it is.
No, there is no such thing as a "non-intrusive ad", fucking capitalists are trying to introduce a sense of guilt for not looking at what you don't wanna look. The only non-intrusive ad is that which you don't see or hear at all. Just block all that shit if you can.
Watching ads leads to extremely fast onset of dementia and brain cancer. Making ads means you already have dementia.
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