“Just to be up front I was sent this product free of charge for review. No money has exchanged hands and the company doesn’t get to review my video before I upload. “
So, if you write them a bad review are they going to send you one next time?
If they make a bad product do you want more of it, even for free?
Like, reviewers get to the point where companies send them free product for review from a long period of legitimate reviews that get them a large enough audience. It’s unlikely they’re getting their main profits from free products sent.
Obviously you shouldn’t take a single person’s review as gospel anyway, but just them getting a review copy of a thing isn’t a sole reason to discredit their opinion.
Depends how you define hard coded sponsors. Ad for Raid Shadow Legends or NordVpn, then quite little.
How would you count videos where Asus/Dell/HP/Milwaukee have sent hardware for review?
Untrustworthy. Real reviewers buy the product. If you are reliant on companies to send you product to review then you cannot be impartial.
“Just to be up front I was sent this product free of charge for review. No money has exchanged hands and the company doesn’t get to review my video before I upload. “
So, if you write them a bad review are they going to send you one next time?
If they make a bad product do you want more of it, even for free?
Like, reviewers get to the point where companies send them free product for review from a long period of legitimate reviews that get them a large enough audience. It’s unlikely they’re getting their main profits from free products sent.
Obviously you shouldn’t take a single person’s review as gospel anyway, but just them getting a review copy of a thing isn’t a sole reason to discredit their opinion.
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I more meant if you require companies to send you goods to review for your business to work, then you can’t be impartial.
As long as I have seen a reviewer shit on a free product at some point, I’m fine with it. Otherwise I agree.
Sponsor Block just warns you if a video is an ad wholesale. So, logically, count the entire video.
At that point it’s not an ad, it’s sponsored content