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"Hard" sponsors

Added 2024-04-24 18:35:24 +0000 UTC

I like to talk a little bit about sponsors on here sometime, because for the foreseeable future they are the only way that I can make these videos full time. And I like to keep you all in the loop on that stuff.

Some sponsors are harder to incorporate than others. Sponsors for short form content are hard to come by anyhow, but even then, how am I supposed to fit a 30 second pitch into a 10 second video? I simply can't. (some people do not seem to understand this simple math) The video basically has to be about the product of the sponsor. And that's fine. Sometimes.

But most of the time companies that are active on the internet don't sell a physical product. So I can't show it! I can't animate it. Take Nord VPN just as an example, it's technically possible to make a video about servers and internet cables, but the product itself is some kinda invisible magic.

And then there are companies that make products that I cannot show for other reasons, as you can see in image above. This was a funny try to make it clear what the company is about, without getting the video taken down.
But even this was deemed too dangerous by my agency, so eventually it's just a video about the different uses of vibration and different ways to create vibration, in which I namedrop the sponsor.

I believe I managed to make it not too intrusive and a little funny. I wonder what y'all think. It goes live on monday (possibly earlier here, gotta take a look at the contract)!

Love

Aldo