*Sigh* Another person who doesn't know what "context" is (or never bothered to look into what he actually said).
Yeah it doesn't make sense, those big Youtubers have much more income and furthermore support of Patreon and the like. And to be honest they tend to do the exact same thing.
Yeah no....I hard disagree. when I look up a review, I want to see what a products range of capability. why would a company send product to review to normal people, who aren't able to properly gauge the full scope of what it can do? that isn't how reviews work. A Product review (in the tech industry, anyway) is meant to be a full scale review process where it goes over every detail and feature. Companies will also want to get as much eyes on the product as possible, which is more likely when you send review models to bigger channels. Thats nothing against hardware unboxed, they do a fantastic job. They also certainly dont all do the same thing. a prime example of this is Gamers Nexus, who consistently do more comprehensive reviews using various different machines to get the most accurate picture of a product.
Simple reason. Regular person does not depend on reviews for their income. As for Amazon etc.reviews...It's well documented that they are not worth the pixels they display.
Monitors are a particularly dangerous product type to do this with. Your average person gets a new monitor maybe every few years and is blown away that his new toy is maybe a little bigger and a little brighter and that his windows desktop looks great.
I enjoyed Vincent from HDTV Test on youtube get stuck into Apple. Apple called their XDR display a professional reference display, so he compared it to professional reference displays and found some serious shortcomings for that segment. Meanwhile most PC reviewers thought it was amazing but that was for more general PC use.
I have to disagree with your view, besides few reviewers most are incompetent like we saw recently with LTT, the same goes to most big YouTube channels they simply don't have the skills or don't care.
By letting the reviewer keep the product it is more likely to appear in ongoing benchmarks and reviews of competitor products. Also given the cost of manufacture is pretty low and the manufacturer would probably end up eating the shipping cost it probably makes little sense to have the samples sent back just to send out again. Also if you make a good product, reputable reviewers are more likely to boost your sales but rolling the dice on unknown small reviewers is riskier.
I agree with your logic as it makes total sense to the company. But where I totally disagree is in calling reviewers reputable, most of incompetent and do a very poor job "reviewing" products, I believe the word we should use is famous and their fame is definitely not because they are competent, with some exceptions.
Apparently, still sitting next to the leprechaun, in a pot, at the end of the rainbow, which terminates near LG's corporate offices.
The quality and mental capacity of YouTube viewers has to be taken as a large part of the issue as well. After all, there are people who would sit there for half an hour, watching some douche taking something out of a box, ("unboxing" videos are pervasive), wouldn't likely fully understand a true scientific testing, numeric results, and empirical conclusions procedure anyway.
D*** you!!! I totally missed this point, you're totally right, sometimes I inadvertently click on the trend/explorer part of YouTube and lose hope on humanity, how can millions of people waste their time watching junk like that.
I know EXACTLY what he means. He thinks that ethics don't matter and that these manufacturers should only give samples to the smaller YouTubers that they can CONTROL. This is because he thinks that companies should be able to lie to people. That belief is a common symptom of Anti-Social Personality Disorder (aka psychopathy). His near-constant mentioning of his "RTX 3090 Computer" falls neatly in line because it shows narcissism which often goes hand-in-hand with ASPD.
I believe in Tim and Steve (heh, that rhymes!) because I came the exact same conclusions that he did when I worked for Tiger Direct. Value for money is what's most important to the consumer because the point of diminishing returns tends to be in the upper-mid tier which is more than enough for their purposes. I always tell people "Never buy the most expensive stuff unless its for commercial purposes because no matter how much you blow on something, there's always something around the corner that will just crush it." because you're not purchasing an asset, you're purchasing a liability (goes down in value, not up) and the smart man limits his liabilities as much as possible.
