Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoGame marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the postwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1471arrow-down12
arrow-up1469arrow-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 · 2 days agomessage-square86fedilink
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days 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.