Anon Archived Google's stock rating downgraded as YouTube ad boycott contagion goes global (theregister.co.uk)
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Anon Archived Google's stock rating downgraded as YouTube ad boycott contagion goes global (theregister.co.uk)
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[–] bikergang_accountant 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
I don't get this. I may not like my brand associated with midget hate but people watching midget hate videos don't mind the association. You can't loose if the people you fear being judgemental are the people who are the least judgemental of the subject. What this really is is investors and proxies.
Let's say I'm Tide. I contact Ad Mob or some shit like that to do youtube ads or whatever. Ad Mob can complain to google (they are the same thing by now but lets not worry about that), our customers don't like be associated with racism. Meanwhile Tide is smart enough to not care. Mob is just saying that because that's what certain people want them to say.
Now Google is legitamately worried but not too worried. They understand the market dynamics and how that the market has an incentive to not give a shit and it will pan out. But voices of reason are suppressed because they kind of like this outcome anyway. So they express their concern to the content creators in a forceful way.
Maybe ad mob did get one complained by some small customer but we know companies don't consistently act within their own interest once politics are involved so they magnify their concern.
In other words it's a stampede of concern promulgated by the politics of different organizations in the chain. In reality would Tide lose one sale if their ad showed on "The greatest story never told?" Not a single sale would be lost.
[–] Ghetto_Shitlord 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
" may not like my brand associated with midget hate but people watching midget hate videos don't mind the association."
But I, that does not believe in midget hate, takes offense and ceases to buy. There are more of me than midget haters.
[–] 8499232? ago
Are you watching many pro-midget-hate videos on YouTube? You wouldn't be offended to begin with because it won't reach you.