☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>“keen eyes noticed the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalists</span></a>’ video reviews seemed eerily similar to <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BYD</span></a>’s own glossy <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/marketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marketing</span></a>, also shot in the rugged South <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Australian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australian</span></a> outback—the very same footage complete with local fauna starred the very same ute.</p><p>But what really set tongues wagging in the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/motoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>motoring</span></a> world was the fact that these pictures were not the result of the commonplace <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PressJunket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PressJunket</span></a> arranged by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/car" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>car</span></a> companies.</p><p>In fact, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TobyHagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TobyHagon</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BruceNewton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BruceNewton</span></a> had entered into what was previously a secret commercial arrangement with BYD and its Australian distributor.</p><p>Through their own private companies the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FreelanceReporters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreelanceReporters</span></a> accepted the offer of a job from BYD to arrange their own outback trip, provide the company their footage, be <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/reimbursed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reimbursed</span></a> for their <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/expenses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>expenses</span></a> and at the end of the day to trouser a handy little chunk of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a>.</p><p>And yet none of this arrangement had been declared to their audiences or their publishers.</p><p>So when several months ago some of those outlets caught wind something was awry in the men' s dealings with BYD they suspended their relationship with the writers.”</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/BYDAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BYDAustralia</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/EVDirect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EVDirect</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AxelerateMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AxelerateMedia</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/MumboMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MumboMedia</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PublicRelations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicRelations</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/InternalMonitoring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternalMonitoring</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/deformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deformation</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LegalAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LegalAction</span></a> <<a href="https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/byd/105504496" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes</span><span class="invisible">/byd/105504496</span></a>></p>