# Ep.547 Ashley Madison Was Selling the Fantasy, Not the Affair

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Published: 2026-09-07T13:00:00+00:00
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Customers rarely pay only for what a product literally does. They pay for the identity, possibility, status, or emotional experience it represents. After Ashley Madison was hacked in 2015, investigations revealed that the platform had used fake female profiles and automated accounts to encourage male users to engage and purchase access. The deeper marketing lesson is uncomfortable but powerful: the company was not simply selling a functional dating service. It was monetizing the fantasy of at...

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