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It doesn't just stop there.

With the help of click-driven media, the brand will then shine a huge spotlight on any and all backlash from backwards minded social media accounts with zero online influence. The controversy grows, drawing more ire from bigots until they spin it to make their brand look like a bigger victim of homophobia than the LGBT community itself. This gets so unstoppable that valid criticism of the empty marketing gestures get mixed into the same bag as the homophobia. Targeted consumers then act on spite, throwing their dollars at the brand thinking it does something about the intolerance when it incentivizes companies to fuel the fire even more.

It works the other way around. Chick-fil-A sales went up 12% after the counter boycott in 2012. The same spite conservatives showed towards the backlash works the other way around. Make your brand out to be a victim of 'the wrong side' and the people who think they're right will come out in droves.

Just for some context, the Citations Needed Podcast recently discussed Gates and his foundation and had someone on who wrote a book critical of his foundation.

Here is the podcast and Here is the book.

FWIW, Source: SimilarWeb

You could argue that "visited" is better tracked by Alexa and "used" is better tracked by SimilarWeb but, all in all, pornhub is a big deal and her point stands.

Not according to this:

https://hootsuite.com/resources/case-study/five-guys-case-study

> The Five Guys online strategy—led by Online Marketing Specialist Kenneth Westling—relies primarily on social media for the bulk of their promotional activities, as well as customer service and public relations. ... > Encourage employee participation on social media

So, yeah.

OP has a subreddit called /r/LuminateFocus. Luminate Focus was created by Hafizd Hanani. Hafizd Hanani ran an online ad agency.

Lol it’s Private Internet Access. I just did it to fit the sub and not get ripped. I like it a lot. I put an extension for it in my Firefox browser on my MacBook Air and I can turn it on and off through that which is super useful for simple stuff like getting around geo locks. You do have to do some tweaks in your browser and check to make sure

Edit: they also have an iPhone app which I’ve used to get around geo locks for soccer videos posted by Sky in the UK.

check his linkedin

Advertising is listed as one of his top skills, under "video production" and "video editing". Furthermore, he works as a "content manager" at Intrax. His job description?

>Responsible for centralized content management & curation, including the sourcing, organizing, editing and provisioning of content related to particular themes or topics.

> your evidence for them being evil is just focusing on a few quotes while entirely ignoring the actual article that you linked. I'm not convinced at all [...] I was just pointing out that you only posted an article for 1/2 of the quotes. And that article itself is supporting Zuckerberg and goes against the point you are trying to make.

Did you just expect them to tell what they are really thinking and not spout corporate bullshit spin doctor answers? C'mon, you are smarter than this.

Mr. Zuckerberg is a Fortune 500 CEO; that guy has "The 48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene & "The prince" by Machiavelli probably laying on his bedside table.

Here take a look at this interview; he gets asked about privacy, it makes him suddenly get all sweaty & nervous.

Or just look up the financial statements of Facebook.If he became wise & mature in the meantime & cared about/respected user privacy he wouldn't have taken money from & sold shares to In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm of the CIA that has as sole purpose supporting the intelligence capabilities of the United States.

If it looks like a duck and walks/quacks/flies like a duck, it is a duck.

Edit: Before any of you waste time making smartass remarks;

• The In-Q-Tel investment happened while Facebook was a private company; it couldn't have happened without his approval.

• Yeah it is possible for a CEO of a private company to not take money from investors / sell shares; remembers me of a fun recent example, here is Apple CEO Tim Cook telling climate change denying share holders of his public company to get lost

/r/mildyinteresting should be removed. 90% of the time it's native advertising.

The brand's strategy is now to move people from free burrito coupons, to BOGO, to normal full price. Good luck with that. http://seekingalpha.com/article/3959171-chipotle-mexican-grill-management-provides-update

Edit: Look, another virus outbreak at one of their disease holes in MA on 03/08/16: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-08/chipotle-closes-massachusetts-restaurant-after-workers-get-sick

I've had 0 problems with my adblocker on firefox

https://adblockplus.org/en/ is the one I use, been using for years.

And yes I feel ironic as hell giving you a link to something on /r/hailcorporate but hey, trying to help :P

It almost certainly is just another branch, but that is why it is so appropriate for this subreddit. Intentional and obvious advertising doesn't need to be pointed out to anyone and there is little utility in discussing it, which is why this sub discourages posts from /r/gaming or r/movies. Unintentional advertising, however, is an interesting cultural phenomena, one undoubtedly supported by the companies themselves, and one that says far more about who we are and what we value.

For example, you describing HMRB as "gopro" stunts and sport stuff is a perfect example of a corporate brand that has so deeply insinuated itself into the cultural consciousness that people often don't notice. This is why a company like gopro can continue to exist, despite a significant chunk of savvy investors believing it to be vastly overvalued.

You're right that these may not be the best examples. In most cases there is some "sponsored" text, but I think you're much more likely to notice it than average. Personally I find that text easy to gloss over.

While making this I also noticed some sites that don't label their sponsored content at all. For Mashable and Fastcompany I had to check some js vars rather than visible elements. Here's an example Mashable ad where they don't disclose.

http://www.alexa.com/topsites

Globally, Facebook is #3, Reddit at #8.

Narrow it to the US and Reddit jumps up #4.

In regards to young people, Reddit is probably bigger. Facebook is losing the teen demo fast.

>Generally if it's really a corporate sock-puppet, the account will have little to no comment history.

You can buy accounts that are old and appear active, they just cost more. Quick seach and link, there are probably a lot of private channels for PR firms too.

That reminds me of the old '40s ads where people would write articles about their products. I remember reading one for a gas company that, due to their incredible gasoline, could make it so that bombers could carry two extra bombs aboard their planes to drop on the Japanese. It was ridiculous then and it's ridiculous now, just nowhere near as entertaining.

Edit: I found the ad. I have the exact same thing framed and it used to be in my bedroom. Little did I know it was going for ten bucks on Amazon TM, I guess I may as well get to selling :P https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Flying-Fortress-bombs-Mobilgas/dp/B00T0CEWDU

He edited the comment with something that is ALMOST worth its own post:

> I've been subscribing to Private Internet Access for 3 years now. At $40/yr it's some of the best money I've ever spent. Edit: My first gold ever. Thank you kind Redditor. You've bought my guilding cherry.

> Also: To everyone who asked a question but didn't get a response, sorry. There's just too many. If you PM me I'll get to your questions as soon as I can. Thanks.

Ok.

Why are you answering questions for a company that (supposedly) does not pay you to do so? Especially when there's an FAQ link directly beneath your post?

Is this really the type of behavior a normal redditor displays?

nope, I am aware of manufacture processes and the distillation of crude oil.

The plastic used in the bricks is called ABS. They do not distil the oil, or manufacture the ABS themselves, they purchase the ABS from a plastic supplier. There is no direct relationship between the companies manufacture process and the sponsored oil company.

EDIT: If you would like to do some more research into who supplies the supplier, so you can make your theory stretch further. The Plastic supplier is the Bayer Group's material science Department.

I say paid shill because of this:

>a person who publicizes or praises something or someone for reasons of self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.

Not everyone is familiar with the webster definition.

Lego's advertising has been focusing on social media for the past several years. It's totally hailcorporate material, and this post may not bother you, but I was subbed to woahdude before it was defaulted, back when it actually had cool content that made me say "woah," but now it just delivers this crap to my front page.

Also, to add, they may be a toy company, but as a brand, they want to cultivate and rekindle that relationship young adults had with the product growing up, so as they start families and go to buy toys, they'll think of legos. Plus, if they can normalize and popularize the idea of "sharing your lego creations!" it only increases their hailcorporate advertising panache. You have to think like a marketer to see the connections here, not just "herp der, toy ads belong on childrens TV!"

Edit: Here is the source, BTW, it was part of an advertising campaign by a firm called Geometry Global.

I just found a graph, it looks like it's actually nearly 5x larger between 2008-2013 so it's probably 5x by now. http://www.geekwire.com/2013/massive-growth-amazon-expands-90000-employees/

For the break thing I guess they found a way to track it otherwise they would have been busted by now, and state law is probably different than where I was.

> people dont hate the little discussions that happen in this sub.

The way you use "people" here is a little vague. Some of us think it's important to point out the ways that corporate consumerism encroaches upon our lives in various ways. In fact, I personally think it's a pretty damn important issue. And it would be bad enough without the shills on Reddit and the lemmings who will upvote anything with a corporate logo on it.

But other people, presumably people like you, don't seem to care if advertising and consumerism is shoved down our throats everywhere constantly. They don't care that marketers not only shape the content of Reddit, but indeed the content of our actual lives. It's like a runamuck psychological experiment which has taken over the whole of western society.

So if I see some incredibly generic post which subtly features a corporate logo getting 5000 upvotes in the first hour... I'm not going to just shrug my shoulders about that shit. I'm gonna research that corporation and dish all the dirt I can find about it. And if someone posts a "/r/hailcorporate" comment... I'm gonna upvote that comment. And even if it's just some generic product that you might find in an infomercial... I'm not just gonna shrug my shoulders about the naked promotion conspicuous consumerism. I can't do much about that sort of thing whenever I'm around a TV, or at the movies, or walking down the street, or looking at any other website. But on Reddit I can call that shit out for what it is and I know that there are others who will do the same. If you or any others don't like that... unsubscribe from this sub. It's really that simple as far as I'm concerned. Instead of constantly crying about how we are overzealous and that all advertising isn't so bad... just unsubscribe.

Bill Hicks probably summed it up best:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

This happens with every system where moderation is crowd-sourced because you want free labour to remove off-topic content. Especially if it's gameified with points for contribution that can be conjured out of thin air. You get group-think and chilling effects for dissenting opinions every time.

One alternative is the *chan type content where lax moderation significantly increases the noise-floor and general animosity but where the truly thoughtful posts stand out.

I've been watching the Discourse project for some time, hoping they wouldn't make the same mistakes but I predict that even with that system, you're gonna end up with a clique of "forum royalty" who dictate the groupthink and others who will adopt it in order to get in with them.

How do you successfully moderate an online forum in a reasonably unbiased fashion anyway? The only solution I've seen has been having actually impartial moderators who rule with an iron hand and transparent and clear rules for what gets removed and what doesn't. (and no badges or points or votes or any of that nonsense).

I'm not gonna sponsor them. But, I use NordVPN, I would really recommend it actually, has a shit load of servers, double VPN, Onion over VPN, only thing they're lacking is port forwarding, which really sucks

Yeah, it started with small things, like a stick figure or random crap like that, but the thing quickly snowballed and there have been various pictures showing drawings from the most simple to the truly wonderful.

What we do not see is the amount of orders where a drawing was requested, but the restaurant did not deliver.

Here are a few, in case you are interested.

I think it's more than a coincidence /r/gaming mods decided to sticky a promotion of the good, clean fun Chess provides just after Twitch partners with "chess com".

as a quick research something like opensift and opencv would be adequate for our purposes, but with the serious problem of using lots of processing power. Using things like the a database of the previous images we could cut work, because spam has the characteristic of being reposted many times. We could also use analysis of the comments and the hailcorporate votings to complement the data. Maybe it's possible?

Fast food companies would go out of business if the fast food productivity was not above fast food wages. McDonalds had 5.4 Billion in net income in 2012. I think their workers are plenty productive. Their net income/ total revenue is around 19.8%, so you know they are making a good deal of money. I think their workers are plenty productive.

Seemed pretty odd, seeing how Colorado is known for Coors not Bud.

Here is Bud saying they didn't pay Peyton.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/peyton-manning-handed-budweiser-32-million-in-free-ads-after-the-super-bowl-2016-02-08

but I got domain on godaddy auction and whois info was not changed yet.. as transfer is pending. On top of that my GoDaddy account email and domain (whois) email are diffrent.

And yeah, maybe "Godaddy (probably) didn't resell my info", it is more likely that people working at Godaddy are part of these scams once they are back home on their private PC.

https://www.quora.com/Is-GoDaddy-selling-my-details-read-notes

GoDaddy still violates ICANN policy--and still sleazy http://www.zdnet.com/article/godaddy-still-violates-icann-policy-and-still-sleazy/

I especially appreciated the OP's comment where he mentions their NYSE symbols 3 times in one post.

They don't. That person is just mad at reddit. They seriously are the #9 most popular site on US interwebs. Reddit itself probably isn't manipulating votes. Or maybe it is. But it isn't because there's nobody here to post stuff.

Man you're just completely talking out of your ass. I know people like practical effects (I do too), but you're saying that CGI looks worse just because you say so.

You're disagreeing that the work it takes to do it in CGI is less than the work it takes to do it with practical effects. Tell me how the hell you're going to build a space ship set along with storm trooper costumes (one of which is completely chrome plated), build an elevator set with moving lights, hire actors, rehearse scripts, film it all and edit it, and do it all with less work than sitting in front of a computer for a couple of days, importing 3D models and mocap data, and moving around sliders/clicking buttons? If you think CGI is slower/more expensive, then you're completely detached from reality. That, or you're talking about something you have no experience in (hence "talking out of your ass")

> Correct, it can. But it's not as organic or interesting. And will ultimately be cheaper to do this practically.

Blender is free. An internet connection to download it is relatively cheap.

A camera is not cheap. Lighting equipment is not cheap. Idk how much it cost to build that hydraulic arm, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't free. A table might be cheap, but not free (unless you want to cut a hole in your dinner table).

I feel like you just gave me homework! But I'm game, going to do some reading tonight. i was just reading this: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/whose-reviews-should-you-trust-imdb-rotten-tomatoes-metacritic-or-fandango-7d1010c6cf19/ which for layman like me was informative.

For the diving example I was assuming some kind of like 1-10 scoring system where as the skill of the dive improved, the scores would begin to approach all 10s and lose the normalcy of their distribution. Not a literal thumbs up/down binary score but I take your meaning. I was just curious if there is an effect of what I'd call "objectivity taking over subjectivity". Setting aside irrational scoring since judges are suppose to be less irrational, would the distribution of scores lose its "normalcy" in this case? Or is it still normal but with a much smaller SD?

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It has always been about pointing out both intentional and unintentional plugs and brand worship.

See sidebar from 1st month. The inclusiveness of the sidebar hasnt really changed all that much.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111106025858/http://www.reddit.com/r/HailCorporate

The latest revision was just a clarification to make it simple and less ironic compared to "obey, conform, consume" because there were too many idiots misinterpreting simple posts.

If you come here and choose to misinterpret posts despite the simplicity of the sidebar, it isnt going to make sense. While you laugh at the posts for the wrong reason, we laugh at you for laughing.

> And, if maybe someone creates a reddit specifically toward combating hate, racism, sexism, corporations, bigotry, fascism (actual fascism, not bullshit claim right-wingers make toward leftists), etc. (all of them) across the internet I will gladly join it

what about https://raddle.me ?

Yes. This is the exact snack pack.

The kid just put this "Ultimate Care Package" on a wish list and grandma spent $20 to make him happy.

It's hard to judge intentions but that is the only way I can make the distinction between an opinion and advertising.

See my other post in this thread for my personal example. I admit it's dubious in I want people to see my film and I wouldn't mind making sales to fund future projects. But I'm also genuinely interested in advertising. I hate it in most forms but I realize it's power. I have jingles from my childhood imprinted on my memory for products I will never use or need.

I had a CompSci course last semester that was heavy into game theory and how it's used by economists and marketing. I'm currently reading Predictably Irrational and it's faciniating stuff. Just like everything advertising is evolving to me more effective and that can be pretty scary.

What's even worse is when you find yourself actually wanting/needing to take advantage of advertising....

Holy fuck guys we're not fighting a holy war with corporations here, we're just here to call out ads. That's why I'm saying his points about "know your enemy" and the references to The Art of War is irrelevant.

You should definitely get around to it. Her other book, The Shock Doctrine is also really worth a read. Shock Doctrine was probably even more of an eye opener for me personally, and I think a lot of what is discussed in the book is incredibly relevant to what is going on today in the middle east and elsewhere.

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I'm not sure if fakespot.com does the best job. I inputted this into their analyzer, and I'm pretty sure, judging by the lack of negative reviews and the lack of detailed substance from all the reviewers' comments, this book is just using "booster" fake accounts to make it look like a genuinely good book when, in reality, it probably isn't.

And by the way, I chose that book not because I want to buy it, but because it seemed suspicious to me when I was in the books section of Amazon.