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I have a question.

Would someone please give me some form of enlightenment about the practice of product placement in blog posts?

Is this the new normal?

>I'm Simeon, a in and Solution Engineer @ Sanity.io

> Some major bias at play here but when I came across Sanity I finally found "the CMS I'd always hoped existed".

It is cool, that he acknowledges the "bias", but this is more in "conflict of interest" category in my humble opinion.

What do you think? I am curious.

Edit: Please, don't just downvote. I don't care about "karma". Give me some explanation.

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The OP used to work for me. He was a massive fan of Sanity before he went to work for them. I think that in part that is why he went to work for them. Knowing him, I am sure that he was was not consciously doing any product placement, rather showing what he genuinely feels about the product and heading off any conflict of interest concerns others might have.

As to the practice of product placement in blog posts. This is HUGE and the way that many bloggers make their living (although less so in dev). Affiliate marketing (getting paid for links to products & services) makes up around 10% of e-commerce transactions. It's been around for a long time and is likely to continue to grow as it's one of the few directly attributable sales channels (not without its issues however).

I'm fine with people monetizing their content, especially if it's useful and ad free. What is less comfortable is where people don't make it clear that they get paid for it.

Thanks for the answer.

> I am sure that he was was not consciously doing any product placement

But it reads like product placement. You said yourself that product placement is huge.

From the article...

> "And if there's anything you feel it can't yet do, it's only because you haven't spent enough time building it yourself yet. There's no stopping you."

There's no stopping me? That reads like marketing spin.

> "it happens to be the best CMS."

Says the guy who works there.

> "incredibly generous free tier"

So not just regular generosity, "incredible" generosity!

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