Marketing Ethics

Recently, two famous Chinese celebrities got married. Due to the fact that they decided to marry each other after dating for only 20 days, media and society are putting a lot pressure on this new couple. Some fans give their best wishes, but some people do not have faith in this marriage, and others think this marriage is just a hype. In order to protect their marriage, they do not allow any pictures, videos or details of the ceremony to be publicized. However, the CEO of Yahoo China, also a good friend of the groom, decided to video type the whole ceremony and posted it on yahoo’s new micro-blog in China. We all know Twitter, and this micro-blog is the Chinese version of Twitter. Sina’s micro-blog is the most successful and most used by celebrities in China. In order to with compete with Sina’s micro-blog, Yahoo’s CEO decided to record and publicize this video. Now, almost everyone in China knows about Yahoo’s micro-blog and pageview has increased dramatically. 

Of course, this is a good way to advertise one’s product without actually having to spend anything. And similar situations happens all the time in today’s competitive market. But we need a ethical guideline that will set a limitation on what we decide to do, and consequences have to be taken by themselves.

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