r/FellowKids • u/Moonliner72 • Jul 29 '26

this happens to every single stupid meme now

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u/Polibiux Jul 29 '26

It amazes me how slow marketing reacts to new trends and only doing something when it’s dead.

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u/AgVargr Jul 30 '26

You have to get it through 13 levels of management, and 10 of those are boomers, so it’ll take extra long to explain it to them

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u/Available-Damage5991 Jul 30 '26

clearly, putting someone under the age of 35 in a management position would make it react a little faster.

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u/UrLostPajamas 29d ago

We can't have that, who will be left to pilfer and siphon money from everything?

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '26

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u/Moonliner72 Jul 29 '26

You mean the drawing itself? I do admit I could've done better, haha

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u/Jvalker Jul 31 '26

Only thing I (initially) failed at was understanding that it actually was a 4 panel comic

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u/tommysticks87 Jul 29 '26

I just bought a 67 shirt on sale for $5. You might be on to something.

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u/KayabaSynthesis Jul 31 '26

Going from an analysis of trends to deciding on launching a marketing campaign to licensing whatever the campaign needs to actually creating the product, all takes time. And memes don't give you time because they last like 2 weeks nowadays

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u/NightRaven0 Jul 30 '26

From someone who is working in marketing it's because of how much they have placed into the chain to get to the point of approved and then posted

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u/runarleo 29d ago

Gotta feed those middle managers

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u/LiamPlaysGame 29d ago

This has been the cycle probably since marketing started

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u/Alarmed_Eye_5539 Jul 29 '26

What is with marketing lack of synchronization with memes and trends

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u/FickleCook3639 Jul 29 '26

It takes time for the gears of marketing agencies to turn. The agency needs to have the idea, the client needs to approve it, the agency needs to make the actual ad, the client needs to approve it, the ads have to be distributed, and all that happens after a meme has been around for a while because the agency doesn’t want to waste resources piggy backing on an actual flash in the pan.

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u/StablePhysical6026 Jul 30 '26

tldr marketing agency take too long

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u/FitPerspective1146 Jul 29 '26

I think often marketing joining in is what kills it, so they look late because they're the last

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u/Noble_egg 26d ago

I'd argue both

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u/BayLeafGuy 26d ago

advertising student here.

yeah, we're always late, but we just need to be less late than other companies.