they still got a lot of phones tho

SPELMAN: On TikTok it's really easy to get views. You just post trending audios. Like, TikTok weights that really heavily in the algorithm. But artists can't do that because they want to promote their own music. And so, a big part of what we are doing is posting enough volume across enough accounts with enough impressions to try to simulate the idea that the song is trending, or moving, or whatever you want to call it. And then, as that happens, the artist's posts start doing better and all these kind of things, because, you know, if you were building a new account, which we do many times a day, you would never post non-trending audios. It's worst practices. But artists have to. And so, we view our job as kind of pushing against that and helping them.

INTERVIEWER: Interesting. Wait, so like how do you run all of these accounts? Do you just have a bunch of cell phones somewhere or…?

COREN: Yeah, pretty much. We have a large network of both employees, and contractors, and people in our network, and yeah – a lot of phones.

SPELMAN: We have a rapid Verizon at this point. We are like a VIP customer of them, and our office is overrun with iPhones. Our partner Adam Tarsia? has this theory about which iPhone is best. It gets deep very fast, yeah.

also, ive known about geese since 3D Country. i think it's just interesting that cgp claim to have the ability to make anything viral / gain impressions and execute it. at the end of the day, it is a marketing campaign but it's interesting to know about the methods agencies use due to the state of current social media.

Yes, it can be described as deceptive marketing using real humans to drive engagement. Although afaik the scale is not completely clear as to whether it was 250 or 5,000 accounts. Realistically I would assume it's closer to the former. Ethics aside, that simply isn't the same as having "bot farms", although dummies are acting as if 50% of the opinions you see online involving Geese (or any other artist named in CGP) is from a bot. I agree with you overall, there's just too much sensationalism and false narratives around this which is annoying.

the billboard interview in OP said they have thousands of accounts and hundreds of employees trained like college students studying how to manipulate audiences

it is more than 5000 accounts, they openly admitted they can create a trend in their sleep and get an artist popular in months, the only thing is making sure they move that off platform. they not worried about manipulating social media into making artists popular anymore, that’s the bare minimum according to that interview they tryna turn that into tours

just like I said about there is going to be AI music being performed live for profit and no one will know and eventually there will be a real life AI artist on some Milli Vanilli s*** but properly detailed out lmao

KTT2: sensationalism and false narrative

Interviewer: so are you able to manipulate audiences into listening to what you want?

Music exec: oh yea, we can do it easily now. All it takes is trending TikTok sounds. we even put trending TikTok sounds in front of the song we want to push to make the song more popular and simulate the trend across thousands of accounts simultaneously

entire article is (rightfully) getting dunked on

BREAKING NEWS: marketing company a band’s label works with used a marketing tactic to boost the publicity of said band 🤯

CGP tryna save face by pulling a PR stunt

they must be backpedaling

dam they trying to get them the hell outta here

quick get the few organic artists we have to save face!

why didnt they interview any of us tf

You guys fell for Geese

That fight looks real tbh lol

What a bunch of NPCs

(Distracting everyone from Oklou who did make a cool album)

prob never wouldve listened to that album if the push wasnt so big. glad it did

KTT is too old for this. I think they meant to fool teenagers who weren't alive for rock music

yo...

A santa hat avy in April

became too iconic imo esp with the catto

wait until this comes out about Angine de Poitrine

at least geese are cool

angine de poitrine look dumb as f*** and sound like garbage

Legendary thread

Wait till u find out who ryshy uncle is