4.8 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Sup you beautiful bastards. Hope you having a fantastic Thursday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco |
0:04.7 | show and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're to talk about today is another story |
0:08.7 | involving kids directed content on YouTube, the FTC, and the situation in general just becoming |
0:14.1 | bigger. Now yesterday as you might remember, we talked about YouTube settling with the FTC. You're having to |
0:18.1 | pay a record $170 million. They have these massive changes coming to the site |
0:21.6 | in the next four months. |
0:22.6 | One of the most notable changes is that a lot of content |
0:25.6 | geared towards children is about to be demonetized |
0:27.6 | on a crazy level. |
0:28.6 | But one of the big things there with that situation |
0:30.6 | is that the allegations and the complaint |
0:32.6 | was geared towards YouTube and Google. |
0:34.6 | But that doesn't mean that it's the end of the story and that individual |
0:37.5 | channels and companies are safe. And the reason I say that is that the nonprofit watchdog |
0:42.0 | truth in advertising is going after one of the largest and possibly one of the most profitable |
0:46.2 | channels on YouTube. And that being Ryan Toys Review. Yesterday, the New York Times reported that |
0:50.8 | truth in advertising had filed an FTC complaint quote, on the same day that Google, which owns YouTube, agreed to pay a $170 million fine as part of a settlement. |
0:58.0 | Although looking into it, I think the New York Times got their timing wrong. |
1:00.6 | And I say that because on truth and advertising.org, they say they filed this FTC complaint, then linking to a document dated August 28th, |
1:12.6 | which, hey, ultimately doesn't change the full report, but the timing here is notable and important, so I just want to make sure that is correct. |
1:17.6 | The main point that FTC complaint reportedly accused the channel's administrators of deceiving children through sponsored videos that often have the look and feel of organic content. |
1:25.6 | According to truth in advertising, nearly 90% of the Ryan Toys review videos have included at the look and feel of organic content. According to truth in advertising, |
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