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> [...] and was killed fast. I'm /r/OutOfTheLoop... what happened that Hail Corporate was killed?
It appears to be open, the most recent post was 27 minutes ago. I'm not sure what OP is referencing.
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I think it’s the minors that are illegal and that’s what Verizon is afraid of. Adult sites are perfectly legal. Also US is a very religious country (some parts) compared to other western nations. So that’s where some of this comes from.
It's really just the moralistic people pressuring advertisers. Minors can find a way to get their hands on a Playboy, but we don't stop selling Playboy in shops just because that can happen. People interact online through a select few pieces of tech: smart phone apps, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter. Just saying "adult sites exist" is like telling people to drive over to the wrong side of town and shuffle into a…
If I were Pornhub, I'd really low-ball them. After all Verizon wrote down the purchase by 30%? [0] and I'm sure they just want rid by now. So between 10% - 50% is a good offer. On Pornhubs side, it's essentially a steal. They could very well foster a good atmosphere when it comes to porn and then offer through their mindgeek advertising platform access to Tumblr for their marketing affiliates. These marketing affilia…
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/11/media/verizon-oath-valuat...
So much for Verizon's content empire. And to think this was the reason they began putting super-cookies into everyone's computers. Good riddance!
If there’s one thing PornHub is good at, it’s generating positive PR for itself. I’m always very impressed how much of Reddit - often very skeptic all about corporate manipulation- will roll over to have its tummy tickled by Pornhub.
I always giggle at the concept that Reddit is anti-corporate, because they are the easiest people to advertise to if you do it correctly. Generally speaking, they already pre-assemble into groups that are very often themed by patronage to the Corporate Gods (marvel, GoT, video games, whatever), and it becomes their entire identity.
I have two "modes" though which I use Youtube. The first is searching for the answer to a specific question such as how to change the radiator on my car or a good blueberry pie recipe. The second is I might enjoy a particular "personality" like Joe Rogan or Jimmy Dore. I don't want to subscribe to car/cooking topics. Nor do I want to subscribe to MMA, general politics, or general comedy. This new model doesn't work for me. I wonder if I will be converted eventually.
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Reddit has quite a few blind spots when it comes to obvious advertising. Disney properties get a free pass, for example.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. My guess is that the professional community, people that earn money manipulating/contributing paid-content to Reddit, is quite big. Or, at least, their impact is really big. Most people are just readers and Reddit professionals have time, motivation and knowledge to game the system. I have fun reading Reddit. And I read it very…
Killed how? They've got 168,000 subscribers and seem to be fairly active.
It's bizarre that it's legal for me to look at pictures of a naked person, but effectively illegal to use technology to do so, just because advertising is subject to the whims of a moralistic and prejudicial minority.
> I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called "Bring back the porn!"
Definition of "porn" is too much different for Pornhub and Tumblr. For former, it's kafkaesque-lovecraftian movies with Hollywood-level effects depicting impossible forms of multi-person sexual intercourse, for latter it's usually just photos of women with uncovered breasts. I can't remember seeing "real porn" on Tumblr.
I'm not sure Verizon's "buy high, ruin it, sell low" strategy is going to pay off.
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Reddit has quite a few blind spots when it comes to obvious advertising. Disney properties get a free pass, for example.
Advertising is so ubiquitous on Reddit that you almost do it a disservice by enumerating one example. But something that makes me roll my eyes the hardest is when an indie dev makes a single post to /r/gaming and the gamers complain about advertising. As if that subreddit isn't one constant advertisement for the top three games out at one moment. But just launder your ads and gamers eat it up. A dev posting their own…
I disagree with this. There are thousands of Indie developers out there trying to win the game programming lottery, and the main tool at their disposal is posting on sites like reddit or spamming on twitter. The result is that most of this content is low quality and of little interest to the broader gaming community.
To put it differently, for every Vlambeer there are legions producing low quality spam that no one wants to see.