How to Use marketing ploy in a Sentence

marketing ploy

noun
  • But high trade-in prices for last year’s tech is a marketing ploy that should be ignored.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Gutierrez’s agent missed a great marketing ploy.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026
  • Some bakeries saw the review as a marketing ploy.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The industry at large has even leaned into that factor as a marketing ploy.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The marketing ploy of the open mic experience was a given.
    — Ime Ekpo, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Some on the internet were quick to point out that Kempczinski’s weird video may have in fact been a marketing ploy all along.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Seen in this light, hoteliers may realize that in an industry built on trust, recognition cannot be boxed as a marketing ploy.
    — Ascend Agency, Oc Register, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Could this decidedly weird video somehow be some kind of 3D chess, outrage bait marketing ploy?
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Noah Greenberg is posting them all—and the engagement is, by his own admission, a marketing ploy.
    — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 10 June 2026
  • But it's also become a marketing ploy Of course, going green can benefit bottom lines, too.
    — Ali Wunderman, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Argus analyst Joseph Bonner said the movie's in-theater run can be seen more as a marketing ploy than a way to drive revenue.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The belief from those people is that the couple, and especially Markle, are using the visit as a marketing ploy.
    — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 28 June 2026
  • Pressley and Warren in the end failed to muster enough votes to stop the military strikes against Iran, but their marketing ploy to address their constituents at home worked.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The collaboration—which is just the latest between the automaker and the studio’s parent company, Disney—is meant to be more than just a glitzy marketing ploy.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 June 2026
  • Although the Ripken card launched many conspiracy theories as to whether the inclusion of its vulgar phrase was truly a mistake or a Fleer marketing ploy, there is a long history of errors making it through quality control in sports card production.
    — Tyler Holzhammer, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Ultimately, even if the most fantastical dreams of recursive self-improvement turn out to be little more than a marketing ploy, marginal improvements in automating research are likely to further accelerate the pace of AI development.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • And while some industry experts have questioned whether Anthropic’s claims of too-powerful AI technology were a marketing ploy, even some of the company’s sharpest critics have suggested that Mythos might represent a further advancement in AI.
    — Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • But the latest release from Shudder and Independent Film Company — a witchy satire starring Lili Reinhart, Victoria Pedretti, Lola Tung, and Alexandra Shipp, set inside an ethereal Texas shopping mall — just fell prey to a familiar marketing ploy.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026

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