The late and great Bill Hicks on "Marketing"

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Cites bigbugbag · 2017-01 · on “Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless”

1. are you aware that newspaper were dying before the web ? they were mostly financed by advertising which owned them, also they pretty all been bought by rich people or giant corporations. Then out of the content available on the web (I'm not talking of the internet because I've never seen a journal publish on newsgroups or other parts of the internet that are not the web) newspaper are but a really tiny tiny fraction of the content available. The web was designed as a non-commercial sharing space, so it's no surprise that people expect it to still be used that way. At some point advertisers and marketers (who should suck on tailpipes [1]) invaded the web by the selling the idea that you co

Cites cookieBaker · 2019-02 · on “A growing disconnect between consumers and businesses over use of customer data”

Before internet became what it is today, Bill Hicks said it best: [this video] (2mn clip) /s ...( or is it? ) --edit for context.

Cites renholder · 2019-03 · on “Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox”

> The ad dollars come from knowing you, not concealing you. Advertising dollars are far more lucrative if you think you can trust where you're sharing your deepest, darkests... Imagine what people would share between themselves if it wasn't "public for the world to see". Imagine how many more data points that would produce for targeted advertisements on the Facebook platform, alone. Edit: Including necessary reference to Bill Hicks[0]. [0] - [this video]

Cites eesmith · 2024-08 · on “Procreate's anti-AI pledge attracts praise from digital creatives”

Bill Hicks, quoting [LINK] with original video at [this video] : > By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. [audience laughs and claps] ... there's no rationalization for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, okay? Kill yourself, seriously. You're the ruiner of all things good, seriously. ... > I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. ... I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." [audience laughs] Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags. > "Ooh