TikTok has drastically affected online shopping: Brands and artisans now strive to create a viral product or moment that will be shared by creators jumping on the trend, which then inspires other businesses to market their products similarly. And in their own quests to blow up on the app, small, faith-based companies are claiming religious …
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Man exposes the absurdity of sexist marketing by creating shirts that label men like we do women
Recently, Upworthy shared a tweet thread by author A.R. Moxon who created a brilliant metaphor to help men understand the constant anxiety that potential sexual abuse causes women. He did so by equating sexual assault to something that men have a deep-seeded fear of: being kicked in the testicles. Hi, guys. Imagine if one day …
Camila Cabello And Charli XCX’s Fan-Fueled Beef Was Just A ‘Brat’-Ish Marketing Ploy, According To The Singers
Getty Image Is there a special angry agent in the water? That’s a question music fans have asked themselves all year following an endless cycle of diss records in rap. But the pop girlies weren’t safe. Camila Cabello and Charli XCX seemingly found themselves propelled into a fan-fueled beef too. Yesterday (July 5), the “Hot …
Megan Thee Stallion Is A Marketing Icon Just By Being Herself
Getty Image/Merle Cooper On her new album, Megan Thee Stallion both raps in Japanese and samples Jujustu Kaisen — and on two different songs, no less. While a couple of decades ago, this kind of unabashed nerdiness would probably relegate Meg to the dreaded outlands of “alternative” hip-hop, these days, it’s resulted in her amassing …
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Why is TikTok now flooded with inane ‘help me prove to my boss’ marketing videos?
TikTok users are more than willing to blow up banal videos if it helps prove a stranger’s boss, professor, or teacher wrong. That’s clear from how much social media has embraced the “help me prove” marketing trend lately, where a user shares purposely unexciting videos with the express goal of farming engagement. One of the …
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Do We Still Need Genre? On SZA, Beyoncé, And The Marketing Of ‘Black’ Music
Getty Image/Merle Cooper Look up the term “genre” in regards to music, and you’re likely to land on a straightforward definition. Merriam-Webster refers to it as a category of artistic musical or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content — a description that leaves little to the imagination. When it comes to …
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19 Movies That Had Incredible Marketing But Turned Out To Be A Waste Of Time To Actually Watch, According To Viewers
“I was so psyched for this movie that my friends made it a part of my bachelor party. We left the movie and apologized to everyone.” View Entire Post › Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristenharris1/movies-great-marketing-but-people-hated
People are pointing out 'green flags' and telling Hinge to hire this couple for marketing
When dating someone we are often told to look for red flags that help us know that this person may not be the best partner. Recently, there’s been a push to start looking for green flags, which are signs that the person you’re dating will make a good partner. Green flags can be really subtle …
‘All you do is write letters’: Marketing expert claims there’s a new viral side hustle you can get in on
The age of the internet has given rise to countless side hustles, but they can sometimes be a little dubious or cap how much you can earn. “If you don’t want to sell, don’t want to recruit, don’t want to build a team, don’t want to do [an] MLM, don’t want to do digital marketing, …
Fans are pushing back against AI-created marketing
AI-generated content in art and marketing has exploded in popularity over the past year, with programs like MidJourney and Adobe’s Firefly making it easier than ever to create art. All it takes is an idea or prompt, and a picture can be popped out in seconds, without needing a skilled artist. And the technology is …
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‘Marketing goes wild in 2023’: Electricity company sends peel-and-sniff mailer that smells like gas
An electricity company sent customers a peel-and-sniff mailer that smells like natural gas. In a TikTok posted last week, Marissa Meizz shows “the most unhinged piece of mail” she says she’s ever received: A postcard from her electricity company, ConEdison, that includes the smell of natural gas on it in order to familiarize customers with …
What Is the Morning Duo? The TikTok Girls Promoting It Work for a Multi-Level Marketing Brand
The morning duo drink combo is being touted on TikTok as a way to lose weight and improve skin, but it has a connection to multi-level marketing brand It Works. Source: https://www.distractify.com/p/what-is-the-morning-duo-tiktok