Marketing companies are the quickest to adapt to trends that make money which, if you haven’t noticed, is #1 human motivator. If a human can figure out a way to make you think that you need an item, they will be prosperous. So when I hear these live ads on the Howard Stern show, BarStool, and what I’ll write about in a minute, it makes me cringe which is also a word that should be phased out due to overuse and unrefined definition.
Amber Miller from Radio 104.5 started out by saying she enjoys Saturdays because she gets to go on her long run and then binge out on the couch watching her favorite shows. But how is she supposed to know which program is on which platform? HMMMMMMMM????? Try this product that I stopped listening once it was being promoted. Now the question becomes where is the line drawn?
I’m a firm believer in capitalism so it may surprise you that this bothers me. If you can show how a product works in an educational manner, I’m all for making lives easier. It’s when duplicitous advertising occurs because I did believe that Amber Miller went on long runs because you don’t call them “long runs” unless you actually go on them. Instead of telling me which remote she was using and said what her favorite type of candy bar was, then I’d believe her. Same with Howard Stern and the Peloton. You think that 6 ft 5 string bean likes to get pushed by Peloton trainers?
