EDIT - now that I'm seeing the "Air Canada’s Educational Partner" brand partnership, yeah, seems clear enough there's an official relationship happening here.
Originally Posted by
D404
My assumption, aside from the sort of coverage it is, is based on the fact that he is the host of a video embedded on
https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/...n/elite.html#/ and hosted on AC's own YT channel (not his). It would be pretty odd if someone wasn't paid for that...
I would think an exclusive on a story of this size - essentially being labeled the official-unofficial source for news on this one - would do pretty remarkable numbers for site traffic, to say nothing of buffing the strength of the brand. I wouldn't speculate any further than that without knowing more than I do.
Originally Posted by
D404
Yeah, totally fair. The part I found odd here was the total silence from everyone else. Usually these sites are pretty quick to stir the drama pot.
Considering that none of the majors have even touched it, I'm wondering if they learned about it the same time we did this morning. I don't care about inter-blog drama, it's only interesting insofar as sole-sourcing the story would suggest AC *really* wanted to control the narrative around launch. Certainly, anyone who just learned about it this morning would have been hard-pressed to write up good content about it in the space of just a few hours.