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Facebook Aunt posted:The conflict was corp on corp. The silly town crier response was marketing to beer loving consumers. It was designed to go viral. Going back a bit in the discussion I now see what your point to Tiggum was though.
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Facebook Aunt posted:The silly town crier response was marketing to beer loving consumers. It was designed to go viral.
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Facebook Aunt posted:"The first contact [we had with Bud Light] was exactly what you see in the video—a town crier delivering the very witty cease and desist," Eric Paredes, Modist's co-founder and chief manager, wrote MUNCHIES over email on Tuesday. "We had no idea they were coming (and in that fashion), but we expected them to show up in one way or another. The name 'Dilly Dilly' is trademarked and we knew they had to do something to protect it. We launched the beer at noon and the crier showed up at around 2:15 pm." The Bud Light part of AB spends a ton of money on wacky marketing stuff, they might have had that guy on staff.
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Jan 7, 2018 18:38
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All corporations try to come off to the public as something more than a soulless corporate trying to get as much money as possible from us. If they try to do it through comic acts I'm all for it, if I'm gonna be deceived at least make me laugh along the way.
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bongwizzard posted:The Bud Light part of AB spends a ton of money on wacky marketing stuff If it'll cost too much to make your beer taste palatable, just spend money tricking people into drinking it!
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Bud Light is OK beer. So is Miller Lite, Coors Light, Busch Light, etc. They're not trying to be good beer, they're trying, and succeeding at, being beers you can drink 20 of at a party.
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Tiggum posted:Like Flipperwaldt, that's the bit I don't like. It's the "hey look, we're not cracking down on this smaller business, we're having fun with it!" Like I said, it's not the fact that they defended their trademark. It's the way they're doing it while pretending to be fun-loving jokers and not a soulless corporation just doing whatever they think will make them the most money. It's essentially dishonest and deceptive behaviour. The only real situation-specific objection is that it's been reported as news without THIS IS A PAID ADVERTISEMENT sprawled across the top. Be mad at the newspaper for reporting it. Splicer has a new favorite as of 19:30 on Jan 7, 2018 |
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Puseklepp posted:All corporations try to come off to the public as something more than a soulless corporate trying to get as much money as possible from us. If they try to do it through comic acts I'm all for it, if I'm gonna be deceived at least make me laugh along the way. They also do this inside the corporation, where they try to get people all enthusiastic about "company culture" and "our vision" and so forth. I wonder if there's actually a core of moustache twirling vampires at the core somewhere, or if it's actually people believing their own messaging, all the way down. Probably depends on the corp.
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pidan posted:They also do this inside the corporation, where they try to get people all enthusiastic about "company culture" and "our vision" and so forth. Eh, believing that what you do is meaningful makes life suck a little less. It's almost certainly wrong, but that doesn't really matter.
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Puseklepp posted:All corporations try to come off to the public as something more than a soulless corporate trying to get as much money as possible from us. If they try to do it through comic acts I'm all for it, if I'm gonna be deceived at least make me laugh along the way. They probably all hire the same agency to run their twitters. When Dennys and Wendys have a twitter fight, it's two guys sitting across from each other in the same office.
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evobatman posted:They probably all hire the same agency to run their twitters. When Dennys and Wendys have a twitter fight, it's two guys sitting across from each other in the same office. Companies tend to hire older millennials to be their in-house Twitter person. I have a few friends who make way too much money doing those jobs (for what they actually do) but I don't know of any company outsourcing their Twitter like what you're describing.
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jojoinnit posted:Companies tend to hire older millennials to be their in-house Twitter person. I have a few friends who make way too much money doing those jobs (for what they actually do) but I don't know of any company outsourcing their Twitter like what you're describing. When Nabisco did that famous “You can still dunk in the dark” tweet a few years back during Super Bowl there were something like twenty execs from three different agencies sitting in the same room and watching the game together. It’s pretty common to outsource your Twitter if you’re that big.
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:When Nabisco did that famous “You can still dunk in the dark” tweet a few years back during Super Bowl there were something like twenty execs from three different agencies sitting in the same room and watching the game together. It’s pretty common to outsource your Twitter if you’re that big. Ah fair. I was only speaking from my own experiences, maybe it's a recent thing that they've started to take it seriously enough to hire in-house talent and all that.
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Splicer posted:Yes they're corporations. Dishonest and deceptive behaviour designed to make you buy their product is called "the marketing department". I'm not saying don't be mad, I'm saying be this mad at literally everything else in marketing, because it's all just this poo poo over and over.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Dippin' Dots Is Launching a Cryogenics Company, Because Why Not My favorite dippin dots related story is that my former roommate's brother bought them not knowing what they were and was so confused by them that he figured something had to be wrong and he threw them away in a mall trash can
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hyper from Pixie Sticks posted:If it'll cost too much to make your beer taste palatable, just spend money tricking people into drinking it! AB owns like 100 different microbrew labels, Bud Light tastes the way it does because it sells too good to gently caress with. At least at the level of marketing bros I have worked with, they are either actually excited about Bud Light, or are all incredible actors even when loaded.
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bongwizzard posted:AB owns like 100 different microbrew labels, Bud Light tastes the way it does because it sells too good to gently caress with. Bud Light is popular because it’s generic and easy to drink. It doesn’t strongly taste of anything, so you can pound it back endlessly. There’s definitely some nasty macro lagers though. The worst cheap beer I ever had was Sapporo.
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chitoryu12 posted:Bud Light is popular because it’s generic and easy to drink. It doesn’t strongly taste of anything, so you can pound it back endlessly. Beast Ice is maybe the worst I have had.
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Aesop Poprock posted:My favorite dippin dots related story is that my former roommate's brother bought them not knowing what they were and was so confused by them that he figured something had to be wrong and he threw them away in a mall trash can What's a dippin dot? Is acid involved?
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The Lone Badger posted:What's a dippin dot? Is acid involved? It's ice cream served in the form of tiny individual balls that managed to freak out a 20-something year old puerto rican kid to the point where he threw them away in a mall trash can after buying them instead of considering that this was actually how they are served 
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Aesop Poprock posted:It's ice cream served in the form of tiny individual balls that managed to freak out a 20-something year old puerto rican kid to the point where he threw them away in a mall trash can after buying them instead of considering that this was actually how they are served I think I understand his reaction. I have no idea what to think after seeing these for the first time. Honestly some mild confusion has occurred.
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They don't hide what they are, they're aggressively branded as "the ice cream of the future" so it's not like you're just ordering a cup of unknown colorful beads.
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kupachek posted:I think I understand his reaction. Dippin' Dots have been around since the 90s and are really common. I'd be legitimately surprised if someone hasn't heard of them by now.
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The black in her outfit blends into the background, making her look like an oddly portioned yellow person
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UP THE BUM NO BABY posted:The black in her outfit blends into the background, making her look like an oddly portioned yellow person that's racist
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What you really need to know about Dippin' Dots is that Sean Spicer hates them.
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Investors receive an unexpected session of financial domination.
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sleepwalkers posted:This is as close to SOP as you can get in the crypto world at the moment. My bad - I just focused too much on "CEO of porn cryptocurrency" 
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The longer the great cryptocurrency experiment goes on, the more disappointed I become that I have a conscience. The entire cryptocurrency community seems to consist of people who are absolutely desperate to give their money to scam after scam. I am certain I could have stolen a couple million, by now. Linked from the porncoin article: Woman Avoids Charges After Injuring Husband's Genitals in Bath-time fight The smugshot really makes this one.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:The longer the great cryptocurrency experiment goes on, the more disappointed I become that I have a conscience. The entire cryptocurrency community seems to consist of people who are absolutely desperate to give their money to scam after scam. I am certain I could have stolen a couple million, by now. I am about 99% sure that you could make a bitcoin wallet site that has "by the way this is actually just a way for you to give me, the proprieter, your bitcoins for free. I am not giving your bitcoins back, ever" in the T&Cs and still make out like a bandit.
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Dewgy posted:I am about 99% sure that you could make a bitcoin wallet site that has "by the way this is actually just a way for you to give me, the proprieter, your bitcoins for free. I am not giving your bitcoins back, ever" in the T&Cs and still make out like a bandit.
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:The longer the great cryptocurrency experiment goes on, the more disappointed I become that I have a conscience. The entire cryptocurrency community seems to consist of people who are absolutely desperate to give their money to scam after scam. I am certain I could have stolen a couple million, by now. The problem is that most of those people we’re pointing and laughing at had the same idea you did. There’s always a bigger scammer.
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