From Utah to the farthest reaches of America’s East Coast, if you’ve never taken a formal course in basic marketing, advertising, video production or public relations, the first day of class is usually dedicated to skimming the syllabus and talking about a conscious avoidance of linking a client to any one of the world’s leading militant Islamic groups. Ya know, the foundational stuff.
Apparently, there’s just something about global terrorism that most successful brands frown upon. For that very reason, it’s interesting to see that some of Mother Earth’s strongest advertising and video production firms have allowed for client advertisements to be played before ISIS videos on YouTube.
YouTube has since responded to the plethora of advertorial blunders in an effort to calm the thundering hearts of overly concerned mothers from Utah. Reports NBCNews.com of the widespread series of embarrassments, “Since then, Google-owned YouTube has been busy removing the ads, and in many cases the videos themselves due to policy violations. Some of the ads were playing before the videos as late as Tuesday morning before the content was taken down.”
With over 300 hours of footage being uploaded to YouTube every minute of every stinking day of every freaking year, it’s no surprise that some weird, sadistic stuff slips through the cracks every now and again [see Friday – Rebecca Black].
In fact, YouTube—relying heavily upon its users to flag unsavory content—has even included a “promotes terrorism” option under every video to make sure that bloodthirsty terrorists don’t hinder our country’s right to unhindered capitalistic promotions. #Merica
