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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This is also not a paid ad. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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I've worked behind the scenes for the very things you are claiming is not occurring.
No they are most certainly not necessary branded as sponsored.
Can tell you 100%, seeing some ads passed as news articles I worked on without the sponsored mention anywhere on my phone on media such as CTV without any such claim and the $$$ figures behind some of these. They also happen to be on Avenue Calgary (and not the nomination based stuff, can see it without any sponsored mention).
You can buy your own article right here, with customized reporting.
https://www.avenuecalgary.com/digita...sored-content/
Whether or not the actual specific Calgary Herald articles are paid or not, I can't tell you since I never worked directly with them, and I do see they have sponsored mentions on other articles, but they look exactly like the ones I worked on.
So either:
1) It's a paid ad
2) It's a journalist that got duped into reporting a scam as legitimate without due diligence
Both are pretty bad.