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This is just my personal line, and others may have different lines. My problem is more the implication that someone is using and likes a product when they actu
by sbov 10y ago
This is just my personal line, and others may have different lines. My problem is more the implication that someone is using and likes a product when they actually aren't. Regardless of whether or not they're paid to use it. So I don't have an actual problem with the original airbnb tweet, assuming they actually used the house.
> Do celebrities need to disclose they are being compensated to mention a brand on the red carpet?
They tend to mention brands they are actually wearing at the time. In public. I don't have much of a problem with this.
> Do movies need to start including #ad in scenes that have paid product placements?
Movies are obvious works of fiction.
- burkemw3 10y agoI'm assuming "the original airbnb tweet" refers to Kylie Jenner's AirBnB birthday gift post. I consider AirBnB's product/service to be the marketplace for temporary lodging. I don't know what actually happened with AirBnB/Jenner, but I predict AirBnB reached out with something like "We'll find somewhere nice for you to stay if you post it". I don't consider that using AirBnB's product. The AirBnB's marketing/promotion/whatever team just short-circuited the usage of the product/service. Of course, if AirBnB's product/service was reaching out out to me and giving me free lodging in a beautiful place for me to post on social media, then I'd be totally down with the original AirBnB tweet.
- dota_fanatic 10y agoIn regards to your last point, I believe experiments in human psychology have shown that the lines are quite blurred when it comes to fiction vs reality w/ sensory input. Unless one holds some principle that is able to supersede any given perceived "facts", fiction easily becomes truth, and even then it's a real struggle. We have been studied, we have been found flawed, and those flaws are exploited for monetary gain as a matter of course.