Farming Youtubers

Had a Déjà vu moment watching this weeks video from IFarmWeFarm. Below is October 2019

Ask for your money back so if your not happy.

How much of a discount do you think he really got from a local dealer that quite likely never herd of him or wouldn't feel that many of the local clients would be influenced by him?

Maybe read back through your last few posts you might get the idea as to why someone might have the mistaken notion that you may be against advertising.

The likes of youtube etc don't give a flying fig if you buy or never buy anything from the ads it shows. They make their money by you being there. They sell advertising to people and display it on your screen. I guarantee you that if we both watched the same videos, the ads displayed would be different. That's down to your digital ID following you around the net. Same goes for Facebook or other Google companies. Look up the "Consent" cases across the EU where the tech companies are trying to get around the GDPR stuff. It's mad what they can do and are doing in order to build a picture of each user.

Back on topic, IFarm WeFarm is 100% looking for free mats this week. Seems he was at it a couple of years ago too but must not have got much interest. Will keep an eye now if he manages to get some this time. All these guys do look for freebies. No more than any of the rest of us would, regardless of being on the internet or not. I bet we've often gone in to buy something or whinged to some company looking for free stuff or bigger discounts. It's only natural :-)

Netflix revenue model is not advertising? You pay for the streaming service, Not an ad free version. Your last comment makes no sense

Slightly off topic but I've got a sub to FarmFlix. Have to say I'm a big fan of their model. €52 for 12 months which is a good price considering the quality of the content and access to the back catalogue (hundreds of videos).

The only problem I have with it is there is I feel there is little variety with the constant silage contractor and big dairy man videos.

Could do with some niche/alternative enterprises. Sometimes I feel they should split it into FarmFlix and TractorFlix.

With regards to YouTube, there should be a warning either in the video or the description which stated that this is a sponsored video or a discount was given on this product, as Instagram have.

Have recently deleted YouTube from my phone because ast week I logged how many hours I was spending watching farming and gardening videos. I can tell you I would be better off if I read some books or went out working a second job!

Never suggested their revenue was advertising based just that their production line of essentially click bait emotive documentaries that cater for all tastes is essentially good advertisment for themselves, after a poster suggested that you can trust the content as they are not being "paid" to create it. My point was that they hardly trust the content of all of these documentaries on the same basis, as Netflix a paid platform no more cares about it's content than YouTube does.

I have a friend who’s a manager in a small Irish manufacturing company. They provided a machine of theirs for free to one of the bigger Irish youtubers last year. He used it in one of his videos and for 3 weeks after it they couldn’t keep the phones and emails answered. They got hundreds of enquiries from all around the world and they’ve estimated to have sold 60 - 70 units because of it.

They’re now in “negotiations” for some time with one of the bigger English youtubers to provide them with a machine and also bring them to Ireland on an all expenses paid trip and it’s not as simple as they thought. There are plenty of extra demands also.

Anyone who thinks these lads aren’t getting massive perks from what they do is very naive.

I don’t watch any of them apart from a few mins of an odd video based on recommendations from here and I can’t understand how people would waste their time looking at them. They talk about how busy they are and still have time to spend hours recording and editing videos. When we’re busy at contracting we hardly get a chance to stop to eat, if someone asked me to start making videos they’d probably get driven over.

But if there are people who want to watch them and that results in them getting big perks then I say fair play to them but they should have to state at the start of every video what products they were provided with for free or at what percentage discount. Otherwise it’s misleading advertising.

If I tell you the machine it would be figured out very quick who the YouTuber and company are so I don’t want to.

They were delighted, as he said a stand at the ploughing would cost an awful lot more than the one free machine cost and if they sold 60-70 units from the ploughing they’d be over the moon with it.

For posters on boards, there is or was anyway. Over on the bargain alerts forum there is an amazon prime thread. People were posting links of "bargains", those links they posted were referral links of sorts (no sure of the correct terminology), so the poster would get a tiny payment in the form of an amazon gift balance for every purchase from the link. Its banned now.

99% of people including my oul lad can smell bullshit a mile away and are perfectly capable of making up their own mind about the merits of any product. The more praise a product gets, the more scrutiny it gets.

No, there was no money from the youtuber! I’m not sure if they let him keep the machine they sent him, they possibly did but I will find out for sure.

Either way they viewed it as a good business move due to the sales received afterwards.

That’s it in a nutshell. I’d have no interest whatsoever in looking at them so I don’t! But they obviously get plenty of people that do have an interest and so they make a few pound or save a few pound on products. Fair play to them, but it probably should be revealed what they receive in return for the reviews for the sake of honesty.

Speaking of things that are different there is definitely a big difference between someone coming to your door to solicit services such as roof repairs then doing a bad job compared to a YouTuber saying his Krone mower is better than a Kverneland mower, whether or not he got a discount on the Krone.

At the very worst the YouTuber is possibly giving you bad advice they aren't actually trying to take a pensioners life savings.

Even if you took them 100% at their word you are not going to just buy a Krone mower based solely on their advice unless you happened to be in the market for a very similar machine. To be fair to the YouTuber they were in the market for a mower found one at the best price they could and made a review based on a relatively short period of time of having it , if they were not fairly happy with it at the end of the day they'd probably try a different manufacturer for similar discounts especially since they had it out on demo to begin with. It's hardly like they were trying to peddle some Micky Mouse brand over premium ones.

I see Farmer Phil has gone on a holiday to the UK. I hope he actually takes a meaningful amount of time off rather than just a weekend. I really enjoy his videos but can see him badly needing a bit of work life balance.

@mythos110 I think

That's the one. I presume that's the Galtees in the distance.