Bill Hicks on Marketing
What it is
A short clip of Bill Hicks's stand-up bit telling marketers and advertisers to kill themselves, which is a harsh critique of advertising.
Why Hacker News recommends it
A near-meme reference dropped in threads about advertising, tracking and adtech, often as shorthand for disdain of marketing.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2018, last 2023
What HN commenters said
“You might enjoy Bill Hicks”
Hicks on marketing for those who hate advertisers
latexr, 2020-07 · Recommendation · in “Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked”
“and check this nice video”
Hicks on marketers as a rebuttal to email spam
ploum, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “We boosted marketing email open rate from 20% to 60%”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: bill hicks, advertising, marketing, adtech, stand-up
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