I’ve just watch a few minutes of the Guy Kesteven review on you tube. I had to turn it off after experiencing five minutes of quite galling fake whoops and hollers from the man himself – is he sponsored by them by any chance? Good grief…
… This made me laugh…., 7x Specialised (Specialized) related videos released in 2 days by ‘ole Kes ….. there is no indication that these are promoted/ADs on YouTube so clearly not sponsored at all ……. As has been said many times before this is challenge with consumer based “journalism” from many outlets and media platforms, all the people churning this stuff out rely on the bike brands to send them stuff / be flown out on freebies to test new products etc…. You can imagine if they are making their living out of this that they are not exactly going to give negative reviews in case the brand does not fly them out somewhere nice / send them stuff next time as without stuff they cannot create content – I can think of many platforms and bike based YouTube “reviewers” who in stating the obvious if they were not sent bikes/stuff they would have no platform/channel, in which case I would take every review provided with some level of cynicism.
