<story><title>YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn&apos;t anyone else? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you&amp;#x27;d get a message &amp;quot;This scene is sponsored by Audi  AG&amp;quot;. Every war movie would have a &amp;quot;Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And those are just the obvious ones. It would be super funny if they&amp;#x27;d have to do it retroactively.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>In case the title might lead to you expect he&amp;#x27;s arguing for the rules for social media influencers to be loosened to match those of movies and TV and radio, it is actually the opposite. He argues that those other media should also have the stricter disclosure requirements that current only apply to social media.&lt;p&gt;The video is fairly long (about 30 minutes), but goes into a lot of the history of advertising (explicit, product placements, paid endorsements, etc) in radio, TV, and movies in order to make a thorough case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>&amp;gt; Every war movie would have a &amp;quot;Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a whole bunch of war movies that are absolutely NOT approved by the US DoD, because they show things in an unfavorable light. Generally this means no access to actual equipment like M1 tanks or &amp;#x27;real&amp;#x27; aircraft, which must be substituted using somebody else&amp;#x27;s b-roll, or CGI.&lt;p&gt;It is generally pretty easy to tell the difference between movies that were filmed with DoD filming office cooperation (Battleship), and ones that might show something about the military in an unflattering or unprofessional light (Three Kings).&lt;p&gt;One very famous example is Apocalypse Now, the helicopter scene and a lot of the rest of it was filmed in the Philippines, after making a large payment to their military for use of the Hueys.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn&apos;t anyone else? [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-x8DYTOv7w</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Imagine what would happen if this became a thing for TV and movies. Whenever Iron Man would pull up to the Avengers head quarters, you&amp;#x27;d get a message &amp;quot;This scene is sponsored by Audi  AG&amp;quot;. Every war movie would have a &amp;quot;Vehicles and props kindly provided by the US Armed Forces&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And those are just the obvious ones. It would be super funny if they&amp;#x27;d have to do it retroactively.</text></item><item><author>tzs</author><text>In case the title might lead to you expect he&amp;#x27;s arguing for the rules for social media influencers to be loosened to match those of movies and TV and radio, it is actually the opposite. He argues that those other media should also have the stricter disclosure requirements that current only apply to social media.&lt;p&gt;The video is fairly long (about 30 minutes), but goes into a lot of the history of advertising (explicit, product placements, paid endorsements, etc) in radio, TV, and movies in order to make a thorough case.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JacobAldridge</author><text>I watched “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) for the first time last weekend. Turns out the film was made in Yugoslavia (Croatia today) because the Yugoslav army still used WWII-era Sherman tanks, which were part of the plot so could be cheaply accessed.&lt;p&gt;(There were also some tax or funding reasons I believe.)&lt;p&gt;(Side note - holds up well for a 50 year old movie; and one of the best Donald Sutherland performances, in the same year he did MASH.)</text></comment>