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Ads != marketing. You can still have your ads. The days you're describing never existed. Everything is marketing.
by WA 5y ago
Ads != marketing. You can still have your ads. The days you're describing never existed. Everything is marketing.
- Grustaf 5y agoThere was a time when companies only used plain text ads for marketing. No brand consultants, no content marketing, no tracking. It lasted until WW1 or so.
- marcus_holmes 5y agoI always loved Australia's "shouty bloke" ads, which only really died in the 90's. Typically, they consisted of a beer-bellied "true blue" Aussie, nominally the owner/founder of the company, yelling at the camera about whatever product that his company sold. Fast cut to lots of pictures of stuff for sale. End. Genius
- SuoDuanDao 5y agogiven the subject matter I have to think of Rick and Morty's 'Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson' skit, itself the product of an improv session.
- atatatat 5y ago> given the subject matter I have to think of Rick and Morty's 'Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson' skit, itself the product of an improv session. > given the subject matter I have to think of Rick and Morty's 'Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson' skit, itself the product of an improv session. Yes, and the Interdimensional Cable bits//episodes are them getting stoned and riffing, then animating. Source: have been high
- noduerme 5y agoAs grim as that is, some of us still engage as if it weren't, ignore the self-promotion, and soldier on to the next post. If enough people do that, it counterbalances the marketing. HN is a wide but shallow audience. But it knows crappy marketing when it sees it.