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What product or service do you use less as a result of their marketing?
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
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Not really things that I can use less. But I really hate when companies that are already fully saturated (or basically have monopolies) really push ads for their shit. Example being shit like Spectrum. While there are now more options in my area for internet (AT&T did start laying fiber in my area like last summer), it really just seems like all the money put into the marketing departments could be saved. Same goes for AAA games.
We keep seeing how all the major fucking companies keep purging staff or dev studios they bought do to sales "not meeting expectations." But it seems like they should be cutting marketing first. Every "gamer" I know is already aware that something was announced with a release date via YT trailers and gaming outlets that were already going to cover it. So pushing so many more millions of dollars into shit really just looks like wasted money.