• tal@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    It sounds like this particular YouTube channel may take money to promote products – it has a bit on “contacting the creator about business opportunities”. I suppose that that would be independent of ad rates, though not of audience size.

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t immediately jump to that conclusion. There are plenty of legitimate business opportunities that do not imply “taking money to promote products”. In-line advertising and properly disclosed free samples are standard operating procedure for the tech industry, but they are completely above board, and by themselves do not imply bias.

      Nearly every content creator’s YouTube channel About page or website will have a similar line, somewhere.