Just a recent more blatant example of the creation of paid reviews:
Game dev emails Pocket Gamer to submit his game for review. Their sales team responds instead, offering to sell coverage as well as event sponsorship packages (which include significant editorial content).
This is happening since the 90s but it's stunning how blatant it has become because nobody cared for so long.
The prices for reviews in the last picture are hilarious.
Since it is so common, I seriously wonder how it's possible to find information about products with no payment involved.
For video gaming there's at least http://www.deepfreeze.it/ but for everything else it gets difficult.
Even the German review site for doctors is mostly paid advertizing where they give themselves top ratings all the time while you have to prove several times whether your negative review is legit.
It's always interesting to read what Reuters thinks about all this:
handbook.reuters.com/extensions/docs/pdf/handbookofjournalism.pdf
http://digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2016/predictions-2016/
I wonder if stuff like this has affected the Pyra already or if it will be.
Game dev emails Pocket Gamer to submit his game for review. Their sales team responds instead, offering to sell coverage as well as event sponsorship packages (which include significant editorial content).
This is happening since the 90s but it's stunning how blatant it has become because nobody cared for so long.
The prices for reviews in the last picture are hilarious.
Since it is so common, I seriously wonder how it's possible to find information about products with no payment involved.
For video gaming there's at least http://www.deepfreeze.it/ but for everything else it gets difficult.
Even the German review site for doctors is mostly paid advertizing where they give themselves top ratings all the time while you have to prove several times whether your negative review is legit.
It's always interesting to read what Reuters thinks about all this:
handbook.reuters.com/extensions/docs/pdf/handbookofjournalism.pdf
http://digitalnewsreport.org/publications/2016/predictions-2016/
I wonder if stuff like this has affected the Pyra already or if it will be.