Enter your username and password.
-
posts about #thehipsterdemographic more →
Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically
| posts about #thehipsterdemographic more → |
Vice Sells Out Un-Ironically |
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
Or perhaps they're just sick of the whining. Understandably.
Why is it so important that blogs be seen as the scrappy, independent outsider?
If this, and Twitter's new show, is pissing people off, I would recommend those people get off the interwebs somewhere about now, or adjust. Because the future? This is it.
(however - counter-argument! - it does make posts like this a bit more blatant than usual in their hypocrisy, a bit of 'hi, here's my glass house! I haz painted target!'... if there was some nudge-nudge-wink-wink in it's coverage, I think amusement would be higher, indignation lower. This is a pretty scathing snippet of a similar issue to what you're now dealing with, Mr. Nolan, what with all blow-jobbin' and whippets.)
05/28/09
05/28/09
2. No matter where you are, you can't have your editorial staff work on AD CAMPAIGNS and still claim they're independent.
3. Direct all complaints about "Blood Copy" to nick@gawker.com. We, the Gawker editorial staff, don't have anything to do with it, because we are "independent" in the traditional sense.
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
this isn't an oxymoron...? you can get someone on your edit team to write and/or approve off on someone's advertorial or a custom content guide insert or curated back-article sponsorship or whatever and not have that actually affect what goes into the real editorial content of the magazine.
why is gawker spending this entire week being mystified by what are actually totally standard long-time publishing practices? we fucking did this at science for crying out loud! you guys are crackin me up imo. i'm not saying that you're wrong that it's a real big blurring of the quaint old fashioned church-and-state notion but it's not like vice just invented this thing right now today.
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
[advertising.gawker.com]
Quote:
Just bring a flicker of inspiration to our creative shop, and we'll whip up a sophisticated Skin and Panorama unit that amplify your standard media units. This dynamic duo maximizes your marketing run with a "one-off" execution that is unique to the inimitable Gawker Media properties.
And this is meaningfully different from Vice's practices how?
You don't write ad copy, Hamilton, but your ad people just used the word "inimitable". SO WHAT NOW.
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
Or maybe something that is/was a counter-culture has been appropriated to sell stuff for like, the past 40 years.
[books.google.com]
In other news, Thomas Frank is hot. No irony intended.
05/28/09
Good stuff!
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09
P.S. This post reminds me of that company that "bought" a "blog" for vampires, by vampires that reads like a long and boring series of ads for Tru Blood. But yeah, way to sell out, Vice.
05/28/09
05/28/09
05/28/09