Hacker News with Generative AI: Marketing

Show HN: Postiz – open-source social media scheduling tool (postiz.com)
Postiz offers everything you need to manage your social media posts, build an audience, capture leads, and grow your business.
Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars (jaguarusa.com)
We're here to delete ordinary.
Show HN: A ready-to-adapt email marketing sequences database (sendgoodemails.com)
Why YouTube Sponsors Are Almost Always Terrible (youtube.com)
How Many 'Copilots' Do We Need? (woon.sg)
Dear companies, please stop using the term “Copilot” for everything. It is honestly confusing and doesn’t help anyone. Imagine a conversation like this:
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial this year is AI-generated (twitter.com)
UK shrinkflation hits an absurd milestone (ycombinator.com)
Shrinkflation e.g. your favourite chocolate bar price is unchanged but weight sneakily reduced by 10%.<p>Now... underpants. H&M Cotton-rich short trunks Large were 33in at waist and are now (on the sample I bought today) 30in.<p>And unlike the chocolate bar which is marked e.g. "25g", the shorts' packaging lacks any figure to reveal the reduction in the number of inches you are getting.<p>What next? 11-inch rulers? :)
Lindt not 'expertly crafted with the finest ingredients'. Lead in dark chocolate (fortune.com)
In a bid to dodge a US lawsuit, Swiss chocolatier Lindt & Sprungli has scuppered its own claims about the excellence of its products — a cornerstone of its marketing strategy.
Show HN: 8arms – Marketing Campaign Generation (8arms.ai)
Don't create blog posts and social media campaigns from scratch. Using cutting edge AI, 8arms will generate content for you. Edit and approve, get shortform versions for all social platforms.
Show HN: Gleam.so – Beautiful OG images in seconds, no design skills needed (gleam.so)
Get 50% off all paid plans with codeEARLYVIP2024
Ask HN: Your thoughts on Linus Torvalds' view on AI: 90% marketing, 10% reality? (ycombinator.com)
Linus Torvalds reportedly grimaced as labelled the current state of the AI market as “90% marketing and 10% reality.”
Gross Apple Marketing (jonathanbuys.com)
I’m not sure what’s going on over in Cupertino for them to think that any of the recent Apple Intelligence ads they’ve been running are a good idea.
The Vatican unveils official anime girl mascot (nichegamer.com)
The Vatican has unveiled a new cute anime girl mascot, hoping to create characters that “can represent the sentiments that resonate in the hearts of the younger generations”.
Google's Shadow Campaigns (microsoft.com)
Since moving into my current role at Microsoft almost seven years ago, I’ve worked hard to be genuine, responsive, and transparent.
Every number in Google Analytics is wrong (plausible.io)
“Every number in your Google Analytics account is wrong.” That is exactly what an independent study recently done by Orbit Media found.
What has helped you to grow your newsletter follower list? (ycombinator.com)
What has helped you to grow your newsletter follower list?
The Billion-Dollar World of Parasite SEO: How to Cash In (larslofgren.com)
Parasite SEO is when a third-party company partners with an established domain, then posts a bunch of SEO content to make a bunch of money.
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method (asmartbear.com)
A simple but effective system, used to vet what is now a Unicorn, for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy.
Advertising That Targets Everyone (mullvad.net)
Maybe you have seen Mullvad VPN ads in the subway or in the streets. There is a reason why we enjoy to run outdoor ads: traditional outdoor ads don’t collect data or micro-target people.
Marketing the Odin programming language is weird (gingerbill.org)
Odin is a weird programming language to advertise/market for.
Show HN: LinkedIn Hype Crew (ycombinator.com)
Hi HN - we’ve been working on a fun project that I wanted to share
Investigation into a bespoke McDonald's mural by Cabel Sasser (Panic co-founder) (youtube.com)
Tiny Glade: How Could They Do This? [video] (youtube.com)
Why targeting an ICP brings 10x more customers than you expected (asmartbear.com)
Targeting your “Ideal Customer Profile” (ICP) is the best way to differentiate and win sales, but does it limit your target market?
Modern MBA: The Dirty Business of Weight Loss [video] (youtube.com)
Pizza Hut will deliver your resume printed on a pizza box to potential employers (mossandfog.com)
Pizza Hut aims to help you in the hunt for your next job with a project they call ResZAmes.
Starlink's Hurricane relief offer is not quite as free as advertised (zdnet.com)
It sounded good, but a closer look revealed that SpaceX's Starlink free offer isn't much more than clever marketing.
Using Paid Ads to Grow Elite Hoops as an Indie and 11 Other Lessons (swiftjectivec.com)
Elite Hoops has hit the one year mark! I had a few buddies ask me some questions around getting those first paying customers, the kinds of marketing I’ve tried and other similar things.
Launching on Product Hunt (read.cv)
You Probably Don't Need That Green AG1 Smoothie (mcgill.ca)
AG1 combines the “just in case” marketing of the multivitamin industry and unproven wellness ingredients into an expensive cocktail for the worried well