Some thoughts on “Brand Conversations”
During the last few months, I’ve read about various advertising companies that have popped up that promise other companies that they can drive customers to their door through the exploitation of various social media services.
Whether this exploitation is done by Hyping Corporate Videos to viral status, creating Fake Blogs attributed to fake consumers or through making shill comments to blog posts it is at best really needy and at worst deceptive and fraudulent.
I’m not an important person, a D-list blogger or even really cogent in my thoughts most of the time, but why someone named Luke Saunders from an advertising company named 46 Productions would bother to visit my blog and make a shill comment to one of my posts on behalf of his client Validas (”a cool new service I found”), I have no clue.
If you are a company looking to advertise your products and services to me, at least do it transparently and with feeling.