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Have any other these same brands bailed on Facebook because of live rape, murder, or suicide streams? http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/gangbanger-facebook-lives-hi
by AJ007 10y ago
Have any other these same brands bailed on Facebook because of live rape, murder, or suicide streams?
http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/gangbanger-facebook-lives-his-own-murder/ http://nypost.com/2016/06/17/gangbanger-facebook-lives-his-o...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/us/facebook-live-gang-rape-chicago/ http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/21/us/facebook-live-gang-rape-chi...
Consumers create the content they consume now. Big brands that decide they need to opt out of Youtube also need to opt out of Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Upon doing so, they will be forgotten.
Ben Thompson at Stratechery has had a lot of thoughtful things to say about brands and their relationship to television. It was a virtuous cycle not just for mega brands and content producers but also retail. Internet advertising disrupted that. ( Good read: https://stratechery.com/2016/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disruption-of-everything/ https://stratechery.com/2016/dollar-shave-club-and-the-disru... )
On another note, I've been wondering for years how long it would be until advertisers would decide maybe they don't want their brands pre-rolling in front of snuff films on Daily Mail and other curated news platforms.