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Native Advertising: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment on native advertising, showing how ads are disguised as editorial content in news media, including BuzzFeed and major newspapers.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a funny, clear explanation of native advertising whenever sponsored content in media is discussed.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LastWeekTonight
- Topic
- native advertising
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
Excerpts from the recorded comments. Follow each source for the full comment and surrounding discussion.
In case you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend taking the next 11 minutes to watch John Oliver talk about native advertising: [VIDEO]
aaronbrethorst on Hacker News · 2014-09
In The invasion of corporate newsWatch John Oliver's Last Week Tonight video segment on native advertisement [VIDEO] (10 min long). There is a bit on BuzzFeed where he points out that many of the posts that are "top" are really from paid advertisers. Saying BuzzFeed is developing a journalism team …
TruffleLabs on Hacker News · 2014-08
In BuzzFeed Raises $50M from Andreessen Horowitz
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