Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In the advertising world, it’s not advertising, it’s a promotion

  For example, if you go to the grocery store, there is a difference between hearing/seeing something that says, “bananas are on special today” vs “go buy [specific brand] of cereal today!”

  still sucks though

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  • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Gotta call BS. I didn’t go anywhere and happen across a promotion, Amazon pushed this ad into my home, despite charging me a monthly fee not to do so.

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    • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can call “bs” all you want, but you’re yelling at the messenger. If I understand the situation correctly, you’re using an Amazon service, so Amazon promoting Amazon stuff on that service might count as self-promotion (or whatever the term is) rather than advertisement. The difference being that they’re not being paid by somebody to promote their thing, and just calling out their own services/events.

      Note that I’m also not supporting this, I don’t like it, but I’m also not surprised if that’s how that works, and that Amazon would be using it this way.

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      • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They may have a specific corpo-speak word for it that they have codified into law with liberal applications of money… but in effect it is still advertising.

        Arguing the etymology is like a child abuser arguing the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia. At the end of the day, they’re still a child abuser, no matter how they define it.

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      • spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So according to you an ad is not an ad when you or Amazon use the word “promotion”?

        I’m curious, in your opinion when does something like this become an ad? Is it an ad if they they pop it up mid-show every hour? No? How about every 10 minutes, is it an ad then?

        Marketing departments attempt to bend reality and public opinion to benefit their company. Their efforts have obviously been effective with at least one commenter on Lemmy.

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Promotions are a form of advertising. Just because they have the excuse that it’s advertising on their own service doesn’t make it not advertising.

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  • capnminus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nah, they’re promoting their retail business on their streaming platform. Not the same thing.

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