The rule is the same now that it has always been—paid endorsements in advertising require disclosure. A lot of social media simply wasn’t doing it even long after the googles, facebooks, amazons, et al. had started complying and clearly indicating sponsored content. Do you seriously think the Sarah Underwoods and Kylie Jenners of the world have the same level of understanding of the CFR as Pepsi or Nike’s legal teams?
c'mon, give us one. Grease us with a line of smarmy social media professional talk. I wanna hear about your entrepreneurial digital strategy or something
I don't know what that is and very much doubt it's actually a real thing but damn does it just sound...yes Let's have another
Uh, hello, George Lynch's band. George Lynch of Dokken fame? You with me? Yes?!? I would rock the shit out of lahoma.
Unabashedly. I'd defend my love of dokken with an impassioned 100 page thesis, but that's for another thread. For now, itt, i'll just accept my label as a philistine knowing in my heart I'm a martyr.
Let's leave Dokken out of this. It costs $30 to see them and they've never scammed a single millenial retard.
So why did it take them so long to catch up to their legal obligations? Why were the hottest Instagram accounts, chock full of these wonderful management teams, blatantly promoting products and services with zero context while the Adidas and Bose headphones of the world included the tiny fine print that we’ve all come to known and love in magizines, radio, and TV? Hell even the upstarts like a Casper Mattress makes sure to write “brought to you by” in their copy... I think it’s great that fresh blood is figuring out new and innovative ways to monetize ad revenue and leverage these novel tech spaces, be it from the personalities themselves, or the management teams behind them. And like I said, no one was hurt by it or received more than a warning slap on the wrist: the regulators focused on educating the market rather than punitive action because they recognized these people were simply out of their depth. The activity influencers got away with would have been multi-million dollar fines from a Goodyear or McDonalds; the government knew that these players were new to the market and weren’t as sophisticated as the traditional powerhouses. The important decisions in the Google AdWords cases started coming out in 2007, 3 years before Instagram even existed, and far before anyone ever thought of monetizing the platform. Your assertion that there were no laws or regulations governing the digital marketplace at that time is just factually wrong. Of course there were rules. Of course influencers and their teams were in violation of them because they either didn’t know, or didn’t want to believe, that those same rules applied to them too. At the end of the day it doesn’t matter because they’ve started to learn. Honestly Joe, I don’t know what you’re trying to argue here. That paid endorsements in advertising don’t require disclaimers? That the proliferation of captions such as “#ad” isn’t a remedial measure to conform best practices to existing regulations? What exactly have I said that you take issue with?
I never said there weren’t laws and I don’t have issue with anything you’re saying and I’m not arguing with you. Yes there were FTC rules on endorsements. The FTC didn’t publish influencer stuff until later 2017 (I think) so brands and influencers alike were trying to skirt rules. I said before in this thread I don’t think all influencers are/were acting in bad faith and some just don’t know the rules
Now you're talking. I live in that red circle. Thinking of having another kid and naming him Content just because I can never have enough.
That wasn't a concept. It's a real thing, and was even on Shark Tank apparently. https://www.campnocounselors.com/ Edit: I personally never went, and am not interested in going. That said, there's enough interest from others that they make money doing it.
There's a couple of old guys posting on a homeboard somewhere about what the world is coming to and that these are scary times because there are adults going to summer camp
Better analogy would be...next time you go to red lobster and they take a giant steamy shit on a plate and call it lobster, get a lawyer.
My wife and I just watched the Netflix documentary last night. I felt bad for all of Billy's employees that he fucked over and ran up charges on their credit cards. Not to mention the guy in the Bahamas that was in charge of all of the workers. What a complete shit show. I bet that dude doesn't live 6 months after he is released from prison.
Watched the Netflix one last night and as a person who has helped organize events, holy fuck I was so uncomfortable. Switching islands like 40 days before?!? Didn't contact THE STAGE BUILDER until 30 days out?!?! DIDN'T PLAN FOR TOILETS?!? Made my skin crawl. It reminded me so so so much of what I detailed here, down to the flashy announcement video and douchey party bro promoter with too much money: