What product or service do you use less as a result of their marketing?
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?
Everything that YouTuber / Instagram influencers present.
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
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.
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.
Duolingo
It was their transition to AI that got me out. The incessant notifications were a close second.
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.
I think you are a bit too general. Advertising has its place. It is not always negative. If You have a new product, like a new bike that helps with backpain (just as an example). Most of your targetgroup probably has already a bike and isn't looking for an improvement because their current bike is good enough. They don't even know there could be a more fitting bike for them. You do advertising not only to maximize You revenue but also to let people know about your new product and what it does better than the other bikes. Sure it's not always that way and marketing gets abused like hell... But there are non nefarious reasons to advertise.
But yeah... When big companies do it, it's usually crap to manipulate. One of the main reasons i switched from design (which is often just marketing) to programming.
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.
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.
Almost anything at this point. It feels like the "first hit is free" modus of drug dealers.
I have never played, nor do I know anyone who has ever played, Raid: Shadow Legends
Since a few months, US marketing has deteriorated, so I boycot as many US products as possible.
Bell Canada. They have salespeople doing door to door. They also "partner" with landlords to setup little kiosks with salespeople in the hall of big buildings. Like, you're getting home, pass the RFID lock for tenants only, then there is a Bell representative waiting for you next to the elevator.
But with Bell it's not just their marketing. Once they sell you something they change the terms and/or charge you a different amount than what was agreed.
If you discuss this with one of their salesperson, they will claim that Bell has changed and promise everything will be fine this time if you take a new contract with them. But spoiler, they don't change and are always just more aggressive with their marketing.
Sometimes I feel a bit bad for the salespersons because they are often immigrants or young people that have not been fooled by Bell yet. They are enthusiastic but end up getting told to fuck off by people that have experience with Bell. I'm usually polite but very firm with them.
EDIT: Same with Hello Fresh. I have never used them but since some salesperson knocked on my door to try to sell me their services, I will make sure to never buy anything from them.
The Canadian internet cycle:
Fuck Bell, I'm switching to Rogers
Fuck Rogers, I'm switching to Telus
Fuck Telus, I'm switching to Bell
Just not Bell anymore. I've tried enough to know how it will turn out and there's no need to try again.
Plus, I really hate the fact that they send people knocking on my door, or wait for me and my neighbours by the elevator. As despicable as the others are, they are not doing this shit.
NIE. WIEDER. BELL.
Fuck all of them, I went to beanfield. For internet, anyway. I'm looking for an alternative cell service/carrier. I refuse to get cable TV.
I have a family plan with T-Mobile for years with friends and a family member on it. T-Mobile had a price lock guarantee on it. They raised the prices anyway. When I called about it they told me they made that promise 11 years ago so it doesn’t count. I told the lady on the phone “I pay you X dollars a month so me and my friends can look at porn and cat videos on skinner boxes.” I’m still looking for somewhere to jump ship to. Mint mobile looks like an option but they are owned by T-Mobile so I dunno if that’s really an option.
US Mobile is pretty nice. You can switch between any of the three main US carriers with a "teleport" which has been really helpful because I can pick whichever has the best service for the area I'm in when I travel.
Most commercials are predatory, meaning they are a bad value or take advantage of a group of people. Ie. Payday lending, pharmaceuticals, diets. Anything in that class should be avoided. Next is the selling to the wealthy. It may or may not be a good value, but it is only the wealthy that will buy it. Is. Cars, cruises, investment. If you have the money, go for it. Last is public announcements. These may or may not be worthwhile. So generally, if something is advertised, I don't buy it. But I do sing the jingles. 8-)
As another user said, I've been boycotting US products and services. I still use Garmin since I have a watch, HRM, bathroom scale, speed monitor and cadence monitor from them.
I do use them less now since they're insisting on adding "try the new Garmin+ for free" ads everywhere on their platform.
I have a eufy doorbell cam I’ll be replacing after I move because the app is just flooded with ads. Aquara has one that supposedly ties into home assistant and frigate nicely.
If there were a product remotely in the ballpark, I'd consider switching. Fortunately, this is pretty much the only time in the past ~decade I can think of them doing this.
Literally any ad other than a curated endorsement/ad read from a handful of content creators I trust makes me less likely to purchase a product the more I am subjected to it.
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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.
Maybe only half related to marketing, but I guess for me its every ISP or mobile service provider that does stuff like having a cheap first year and it increasing after that. Its just so incredibly disingenuous. I don't like being fooled. Have a local one now with transparent pricing even if it is more expensive than switching providers every now and then. Same with VPN, Mullvads pricing so much better compared to NordVPN which is why i also have switched.
Youtube on Android TV. Because if you even focus on a video to read what it's about, YT starts it playing, blaring it's audio. If YT is open, it will always start playing some loud audio whether you want it or not. Have to mute the TV to not have it dominate the room.
YouTube has been so obnoxious lately. I need an alternative
Mobile games that are being advertised
Some look fun, but because they are advertised, i know its going to be terrible with lots of ads
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.
any services/products that:
and by my experience, somehow underrated products (not massively advertised) are being good and have high quality than the massively advertised ones.
its because they're (underrated products) focus and investing most of money on the quality, than ones focus and highly invested in marketing, to manipulate peoples mind to buy the product.
Lol Facebook. It wakes itself after a forced stol and spasms notifications
youtube used to recommend me dumb phone reviews. good luck using an authenticator dumbass.
We should be switching to yubikeys anyways
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.
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i didn’t make the conscious choice to stop going to Quiznos, but they had a really horrible marketing campaign to hurt their business. That combined with the fact they were horrible company to franchise with killed most of them.
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Ha! I actually did look into them a while back and their rates are horrible! I laughed!