pervasive marketing in society theme

Corporate market practices such as different kinds of advertisement strategies, often perceived as a nuisance, are discussed from a societal perspective.

9 total · 1 choice · 2 major · 6 minor

Story	Level	Motivation
blackmirror7x01	choice	At the center of the story is the idea that a corporation may, at some point, have the ability to run ads directly through someones brain and make them speak like a TV commercial.
blackmirror1x02	major	People were constantly subjected ads, including pornographic ones.
rbt1985e1x01	major	The Marionettes company practically stalked Mr. Brailing in order to make him purchase a clone. Mr. Brailing confronted them about it and probed into their methods, before he became obsessed with buying the clone.
ahp4x21	minor	In his monologue, Alfred Hitchcock spoke about ads and their pervasiveness in society.
futurama2x09	minor	The Internet had ads all over the place when the Planet Express Team explored it using virtual reality suits.
futurama6x03	minor	Fry was outraged to find out that the beaming of ads directly into people dreams was a commonplace practice in New New York city of the year 3000.
pkded1x10	minor	People were enticed into buying products in order to get sexy holograms that then bugged them about buying more. People were receiving subliminal political messages.
rbt1985e4x02	minor	Albert singled out in his words "larger than life in your own living room commercials coming at you from all directions" in one of his various rants on technology.
shortstory: The Gostak and the Doshes (1930)	minor	The protagonist called attention in passing to the use of "meaningless" and "untrue" advertising slogans to sell cigarettes.