Quote from: nurilham on September 16, 2023, 07:30:44 PM

Quote from: noorman0 on September 12, 2023, 03:30:44 AM

Advertising and marketing is not market manipulation, it is a strategy to attract more potential consumers thereby expanding the reach of the target market. Maybe in practice there are several marketing techniques to manipulate people's minds to encourage them to buy the product. But still it doesn't have a direct influence on statistics, it's just a possibility.

I agree that advertisement isn't a kind of market manipulation. There is nothing wrong with advertisement, it is a common way to invite more people joining/using a product/service. If people think an advertisement is convincing enough, they will follow it. While if the advertisement seems not interesting, people probably ignore it. So, it doesn't automatically increases the number of customers/demands, it depends on how effective and how the quality of the content of an advertisement.

It is different with market manipulation, it is the action that make an automatically raise/drop of the demand. For example when the whales manipulated the market, the price of a coin can free fall because whales are spreading FUDs through social media. Or the whales are trying to dump the price of a certain coin by selling a big number of the coin.

So, the way of an advertising (advertisement) and market manipulation are quite different.

Equating advertisement with market manipulation is a misunderstanding of market operations. Advertising is about getting in touch with people, giving them information, and maybe even convincing them. Do you always buy what you see in ads? No! People can make choices. They think about it, figure it out, and then make a choice

Market manipulation, especially in crypto with the so-called "whales", is an entirely different beast. Setting up the game is what it's all about, not informing or convincing. It's not persuasion when prices drop because a whale chose to spread false rumors or sell a lot of a coin. It's economic treachery

If you think that advertising and market influence are the same thing, you need to learn the big differences between them. To get through the complicated modern economy and fight for fair, open market practices, we need a good understanding of it