It's way evil, mostly because it works on me. Show me an ad for tacos, and I'm gonna want tacos. Only not right this sec. because I'm eatting pizza. But if I wasn't...

No I don't. Only people are evil. Marketing is only a reflection of what people are attracted by. If some marketing plan is repulsive then that only means that there is a demographic out there that is repulsive enough to be attracted by it.

Marketing isn't evil. Marketers are.

I believe that it can be both good & bad. Bad in that it preys on our innermost desires and if we lack the willpower to resist we are manipulated into succumbing to the blatant or subliminal messages being marketed. On the other hand marketing can also prove to to improve a person or generate concern for a just cause - eg. charities etc.

Like others say here, 'marketing' is not evil. I don't even think 'marketers' are evil either. Mostly because we, as individuals, CHOOSE by our own free will to purchase or disregard whatever products are being advertised! Marketing and advertisers are part and parcel of our American free market. Like anything else -- and much like other people's opinions -- these represent 'just information.' We choose to take in any and all information to weigh whether or not that information applies to our own lives, whether we or ours would benefit from it or from them, or whether we would choose to disregard [whatever] as irrelevant to our own productive lives. The plethora of products 'out there,' whether that is choice of a personal preference in laundry soap or the plethora of services we all will need at one time or another, and also includes many technical industries and medical techniques we literally need, just permits us to be better aware of what IS 'out there' so we MAY more infomed choices. I for one, can only thank this industry, or others I can think of, that are indeed a normal way to conduct business. Sure, we may not 'like' how a service or product is advertised. We all have seen these, but we've also seen adverts that may us laugh out loud! Whether an ad is good or bad is not, in of itself, 'the problem' of marketing and/or the advertising industry and its services. It is simply something that, for lack of a better phrase, 'Doesn't ring our bell!' In this, its about personal preferences! ANYONE with a business ... anyone seeking a job ... or seeking education ... or looking for the 'right kind' of diapers to put on baby ... benefit from advertising and marketing. There are NO 'evil' doers here and for the life of me I will never understand the myth that these are ever viewed as the 'bad guys!' Huh? Excuse me?!!! Can you possibly imagine if you did own a marketing/advetising firm and, say, a new client comes in with just a god-awful product but has demonstrated they CAN sell it from past revenues and income, that your very job description REQUIRES you to come up with a marketing and advertising campaign? And, they will pay you a very handsome fee for doing so?!!! I duuno about you, but I am thoroughly happy that someone else chooses to do this, thank you very much!!

Without marketing people would not be informed as to why and what to buy. No way is marketing evil but their are evil marketers. Some forms of marketing as well as kinds of commercials I disapprove of. I don't think it's right that they made it legal to advertise liquor on TV because that is the most dangerous fluid you can put in your body as far as consumables go. I think it is wrong that advertisers try to shove products down our necks with ads ad tedium. Certain items such as feminine hygiene products, ED and personal diseases such as herpes should not be aired at all. People with these problems most likely are already searching for solutions to their problems and these companies are selflessly trying to grab as much market share as they can. Oh, I've got more if I wanted to add to this.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Just send your hard earned dollars to ME. PO Box...