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Bill Hicks on Marketing

Tyrell Edwards · comedy · Watch on YouTube

Stand-up & sketch comedyProduct, marketing & sales

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

  1. “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”

  2. “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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