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Ask HN: Does anyone else notice Joe Rogan using dark pattern advertising?
This is a good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EgPGQmhWag
This is obviously a Dan Carlin ad. I noticed one recently where he just asks the guest about their glasses, and the guest proceeds to straight up advertise a website that sells those glasses.
It feels like a very disingenuous way of advertising and it's happening more and more.
- verdverm 4y agoAre the guests being paid? Can someone not share a good buying experience and recommend it to others without it being seen as an ad?
- jesuscript 4y agoIt’s highly consistent. I can point to several examples. He is using a very manipulative tactic by not taking an ad break and baking the ads into the show like this. It’s the podcast version of product placement.
- verdverm 4y agoJoe talks about a lot of products and people, things he likes, he shares. The clip you shared was most definitely not an ad. You are seeing things that are not there. You have no proof, only speculation. When in doubt, assume the least nefarious.
- jesuscript 4y agoAre you sure? Here is another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx92Xbubch8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx92Xbubch8 They pretend like it's not an ad. It's pretty wild.
- ryanwaggoner 4y agoIt's not an ad, you're just trying to create a controversy from nothing.
- jesuscript 4y agoI’m not the only one that noticed this: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/7e84tk/joe_seamlessly_transitions_into_a_passionate_plug https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/7e84tk/joe_seamle... Read the third comment. Here’s another: https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/y36gw1/joe_does_a_blatant_ad_with_a_little_help_from_the https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/y36gw1/joe_does_a...
- verdverm 4y agoGonna go out on a limb and say you are no Jimmy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lgW_mqOy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lgW_mqOy8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFaTytedkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvFaTytedkU
- ether0 4y agoTimestamp please. Or, are you just promoting JR's show?
- jesuscript 4y agoThat’s the thing, it’s baked in. He has the guest go off about some random historical tangent. Then brings it around to the sale, which is a certain another history podcast that sells for just one dollar an episode. That’s the bit he puts out on YouTube, so the ad gets even more play. He only puts up specific parts of the whole Spotify show onto YouTube, and he managed to pimp this one. I wonder how much he charges for ad campaigns like this. He’s done this plenty of times. Another example: Guest randomly talks about low credit, Joe: Where do you even find your credit score, Guest: Credit Karma is pretty good, it tracks your credit for free
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- ryanwaggoner 4y agoWho knows, maybe this is an ad, but I seriously doubt it. You're making baseless accusations with no evidence, that don't even make much sense to me. You've seriously never recommended something to a friend without being paid for it?
- jesuscript 4y agoI don't run a show with 11 million viewers every other day. These aren't simple "recommendations", and he's not a simple friend. He's plugging stuff for money, in a opaque way.
- ryanwaggoner 4y agoYou have no idea if that's true. <shrug>
- jesuscript 4y agoAre we all this fucking dumb man, you can’t tell these things are ads? You think this stuffs okay to do? Followed by him talking about targeted ads https://youtu.be/ohB4lC8Q4Sg https://youtu.be/ohB4lC8Q4Sg This guy has no respect for us lol.