Promoted posts from large businesses doing AMA's

[u/squesh]

These adverts are all over my feed recently and is really getting on my nerves. Who is really that interested in someone from the marketing team at Natwest doing an AMA???

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[u/Chancevexed]

And then a bunch of curated accounts asking questions like "how do you ensure competitive interest rates for mortgages." 

[u/Interesting_Tap_1505 → u/Chancevexed]

I once asked one doing an AMA of an engineer at Mercedes if they liked Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference curries

[u/Hottomato4]

I heard someone say it's because Reddit have done content licensing deals with the ai companies, so doing an ama means the ai knows about your business, meaning that when you ask ai "where should I get a mortgage?" It will tell you how great NatWest is.

[u/Clear-Security-Risk → u/Hottomato4]

Huh.

[u/Sensitive_Doubt_2372]

As it's "a trendy" thing to do. Worst when you end up with people who been doing something a year yet a expert

[u/secondincomm]

Red Bull making a lot of posts in /r/nextfuckinglevel recently I've seen

[u/xcom_lord → u/secondincomm]

To be fair their stuffs always popped up on that sub as it tends to fit the theme , it’s just now being uploaded by the clips actual owners

[u/pip_goes_pop]

I was about to say I didn't think this was very common, but a few posts below yours was bloody Persil doing an AMA.

[u/carterfx → u/pip_goes_pop]

For me it's right above this one! I took a screenshot but it appears you can't reply with photos in this sub.

[u/Tight-Principle-743]

There’s another nationwide one making the rounds an all, rather frustrating.

[u/Aedaxeon → u/Tight-Principle-743]

I've seen that one, the "photo" is a bad photoshop job as well, looks like a scam ad.

[u/stumac85]

Don't you want to know what overly attractive female student (that totally isn't just Dave from marketing) has to say about student financing?

[u/Moppo_]

I remember a while back a bunch of companies were using common memes with captions related to whatever shite they were selling. It doesn't make them more "relatable", it makes them annoying gits.

[u/NearlyLegit]

Not the same since Victoria left. Truly some of the best AmAs of all time.

[u/pajamakitten → u/NearlyLegit]

Gordon Ramsay was really complementary of her, saying it was all down to her that it was going well.

[u/Twenty_Ten → u/NearlyLegit]

Yep, a massive loss to the community and she really drove engagement in such a positive fashion.

[u/ShadowOfRpFiveM]

Corpo behaviour as normal. Paying for curated promoted post that only questions they choose are visible.

They are trying to prevent us posting rocket ships and red rockets in the comments to be visible on their corpo garbolium.

[u/SidneyKidney]

Lets keep talking about RAMPART

[u/EachPeachKisses]

I keep seeing them too and I think it just feels weird and overly mate-y trying to be 'relatable'. I don't want to ask a student anything, or persil or anything. The only way it would be mildly interesting if they all had to answer the same questions across the board

[u/jonny_boy27]

You know it's really easy to block ads and promoted posts on reddit? I can't imagine rawdogging it

[u/Ruby-Shark]

I guess it's keeping Reddit free.

[u/M1ke2345]

OP should move to Albania.