Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoGame marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the postwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square78linkfedilinkarrow-up1468arrow-down12 cross-posted to: ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
arrow-up1466arrow-down1external-linkGame marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the postwww.pcgamer.comAgent_Karyo@piefed.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square78linkfedilink cross-posted to: ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoThe marketer in the article — as with anyone else trying to do surreptitious marketing of this sort — is in the business of making hype that is hard to distinguish from buzz. If it were trivial to identify hype, he wouldn’t be in business.
The marketer in the article — as with anyone else trying to do surreptitious marketing of this sort — is in the business of making hype that is hard to distinguish from buzz. If it were trivial to identify hype, he wouldn’t be in business.