This week the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously approved, by way of a 2-0 vote, a finalized order in what has become widely known as the first-ever FTC case brought against individual social media influencers.
As previously reported on Tubefilter, Trevor “TmarTn” Martin and Thomas “Syndicate” Cassell posted videos on their YouTube channels showing the pair of stars (with a respective more than 3.3 million and 10 million subscribers) taking part in the online gambling service Csgo Lotto. The problem was that the two ‘Let’s Play’ social influencers failed to properly disclose they each held a 42.5% ownership interest in the online gambling company, directly in violation of FTC disclosure laws.
Martin and Cassell were also under fire for paying thousands of dollars to several other well-known influencers, such as Jahova, also known as Jahovaswitniss to his now more than 1.7 million subscribers, and G2 Esports member Nathan “Nbk-” Schmitt, to post on...
As previously reported on Tubefilter, Trevor “TmarTn” Martin and Thomas “Syndicate” Cassell posted videos on their YouTube channels showing the pair of stars (with a respective more than 3.3 million and 10 million subscribers) taking part in the online gambling service Csgo Lotto. The problem was that the two ‘Let’s Play’ social influencers failed to properly disclose they each held a 42.5% ownership interest in the online gambling company, directly in violation of FTC disclosure laws.
Martin and Cassell were also under fire for paying thousands of dollars to several other well-known influencers, such as Jahova, also known as Jahovaswitniss to his now more than 1.7 million subscribers, and G2 Esports member Nathan “Nbk-” Schmitt, to post on...
- 12/1/2017
- by Franklin Graves
- Tubefilter.com
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