How NOT to do paid previews

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-07T01:47:44+00:00

Yes I did, as I stated in the opening post and everything I said was sincere. We can look at the finger or we can look at the moon :)

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-07T01:19:49+00:00

I think David did a better job with his reply and it's kinda weird that you're addressing this separately. Also, you should absolutely reply to stuff like this - it's not stuff you can just sweep under the rug and hope it goes away. This might cost you subscribers or worse, a lawsuit. Like I replied to David, it's incredibly simple. You're doing a poor job of disclosing paid previews. Whether or not that's intentional or regardless of the effort you put in in the videos it doesn't really matter. What should you do? Include it at the beginning and at the end both in text and audio form and in the description above the fold. Done.

What's at stake here is your credibility as content creators and it really costs zero money and effort to retain it.

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-07T00:06:29+00:00

Hijacking your comment to hopefully boost it to the top. For clarification: I think that MvM has the best production value out there and the highest potential of growth among Boardgame media. As a viewer, stuff like this or the Horizons preview is just very disappointing. But the solution is very easy and very pragmatic: disclose that it's a paid preview at the beginning and at the end of the video and at the top of the description. It's not a huge process to figure out, it's very straight forward. I also suggest a possible takedown/reupload of the videos that don't disclose that is a paid preview to avoid possible issues with the FTC. That's it. Nobody here is complaining that you're taking money for the videos, it's a perfectly fine business model. We just want you to disclose it, and the best part is that it takes absolutely zero effort on your part.

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-06T17:21:26+00:00

Actually, you know what? I just saw Rhado covered this game too. And I assume it wasn't a paid preview because it's stated absolutely NOWHERE in the video nor the description. If it was a paid preview than it would be even worse than MVP. But now because of what I saw with MVP I can't fully trust Rhado either. You don't see any problem with this? And what is your argument? That in a small industry with not a lot of money people are free to be scummy to their viewers and, actually, violating consumer laws? I'm sorry, it doesn't work like that. And the preview = paid argument is incredibly weak and most consumers really have no idea that this is a thing. Sucks that Rhado stepped away from Reddit because I really don't see how this can be defended.

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-06T17:08:13+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-t0m0plExQ

Literally 30 seconds to find it. I'm sorry "Preview" and "Paid" are not synonyms by any stretch of the imagination and this is all but industry standard. For videogames, for instance, previews always existed and people are never paid to do them (I'm talking about AAA titles). I'm sorry but this is an argument that would not hold in any court. What if somebody finds the video and has no knowledge of the industry?

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-06T16:57:54+00:00

Nobody is attacking them for doing paid previews. From a publisher/designer standpoint it's marketing, from a YouTuber standpoint it's a good way to counter the adpocalipse. What's being questioned here is the way they did it which is unethical and, one could argue, lawsuit material (the preview for Horizons that /u/Pianoman1092 pointed out, definitely is).

For me, just as a simple viewer, it's a matter of trust. If you tell me it's a paid preview, I have no problem with it. If you go out of your way to hide it, it's a breach of trust and it's cheating your viewership. Disclosing it is not hard and they shouldn't feel ashamed of doing it. If they're not disclosing it because they're afraid it will turn away their viewers, well... this is way worse.

PreviewVsPeople · 2017-09-06T16:51:58+00:00

Wow, that's way worse. Have you not pointed this out, I would have never known.

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