Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 18 hours agoGame marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the postwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1401
arrow-up1401external-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 · 18 hours agomessage-square81fedilink
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours 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.