<div><div dir="auto">On paper it is not any different that having advertisers for your physical magazine, and a “firewall” with editorial.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In practice, for those of us who used to work with dead trees, how did that really go?</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 4:29 AM Steve Wexler via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Perception/opportunity of conflict of interest.<div>Pay a fee for advertising the award or pay a fee for winning the award?</div><div>If the award is vendor neutral, then why charge a fee for advertising the award?</div><div>I remember there being a lot of negative chatter about the objectivity of Gartner awards.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 at 01:03, Barbara Krasnoff via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Sorry, I may be missing something here, but I can't immediately see what's wrong with charging a fee to use the JD Power name for advertising purposes after you've won an award as long as that doesn't affect the actual judging. <br><br><div>-- <br>Barbara Krasnoff<br><a href="mailto:bkrasnoff@gmail.com" target="_blank">bkrasnoff@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://www.brooklynwriter.com" target="_blank">http://www.brooklynwriter.com</a><br><br>Author of "The History of Soul 2065."<br><br> </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 6:22 PM Gabe Goldberg via Ipg-smz <<a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Today's D and a friend's response:<br>
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"The companies evaluated by J.D. Power in fact pay the firm to use its <br>
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