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?
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?
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.