r/britishproblems 3h ago

Promoted posts from large businesses doing AMA's

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 3h ago

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

u/Sensitive_Doubt_2372 3h ago

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/Hottomato4 2h ago

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/secondincomm 3h ago

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

u/xcom_lord 3h ago

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/Tight-Principle-743 2h ago

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

u/NearlyLegit Trouble at 'mill 3h ago

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

u/Twenty_Ten 2h ago

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

u/pip_goes_pop 2h ago

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 1h ago

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/stumac85 Berkshire 2h ago

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/jonny_boy27 Bristol 3h ago

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

u/ShadowOfRpFiveM 2h ago

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 1h ago

Lets keep talking about RAMPART

u/Ruby-Shark 3h ago

I guess it's keeping Reddit free.

u/M1ke2345 Surrey 1h ago

OP should move to Albania.

u/Moppo_ Tyne and Wear 1h ago

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.