I rarely watch YouTube, I must confess.On YouTube you are expected to flag videos with ‘Includes paid promotion’ which certainly includes being given review samples (which is very common).
I rarely watch YouTube, I must confess.
To be fair, product placement is entirely legal in the US. Over here we have to flag it, up until relatively recently it wasn’t allowed.
In the context of a YouTube channel such restrictions probably don’t exist.
I used to watch a lot more of it but don’t bother so much now.I watch way, way more than conventional TV these days as there is just so much high quality content for the stuff I’m interested in (classic audio restoration, retro computing, guitar/music technology etc). Hours of it goes up every day! There is tons of fascinating well-made content there and many channels support and help promote other channels so it ends up as a highly linked community of information sharing. It is unquestionably the frontline of the internet at present.
I’d expect he’d get trade price or be able to buy the review sample at a reduced rate, but yes, it’s struck me as a remarkably expensive system. Far more so than the likes of Art Dudley, Sam Tellig, Herb Reichart etc who ran/run really nice classic kit in the main.
I skim-read an article, decided I didn’t give a crap one way or the other, and went back to enjoying proper physical formats that actually pay musicians a living.
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Micheal Fremer is alright- he loves vinyl records.
#teamfremer
He does a lot of show ups at conferences etc. I presume he is paid for this. It accumulates.I’d expect he’d get trade price or be able to buy the review sample at a reduced rate, but yes, it’s struck me as a remarkably expensive system. Far more so than the likes of Art Dudley, Sam Tellig, Herb Reichart etc who ran/run really nice classic kit in the main.
How does he afford such expensive equipment? Family money? Is there that much cash in writing about hifi?