Ryan Walker Aman Incident

[Quickstatus]

the actions taken are not inline with what the hotel brand is supposed to represent - certainly not for 6k USD a night.

Not necessarily.
I dont think we even know what the resort brand is supposed to represent.
It really depends on who the hotel believes the target market is... Is the target market significantly different from the market the YouTuber represents?

In my view, a really upmarket hotel may actually want to make their vibe über-exclusive and extremely discreet and ban all these Influencers and YTuber vloggers carrying video equipment through the place.

Will this affect the resort? I doubt it.
Think of an exclusive club. The bouncer determine who is eligible to enter and who is not. They bounce the undesirables. The undesirables then complain on their social media. Does the exclusive club care?. I dont think so as it would only make the club more exclusive and attractive to the right people.

Did this YouTuber inadvertently increase the attractiveness of this resort to a certain type of clientele? . Possibly

But in the end who knows.. maybe more info will come out in the following days.

Aman's silence is damning though

Why?,
I actually think silence is the best policy.
I don't see any reason why a USD$6-9K/night resort would publicly respond to a YouTuber.
The reservation was not confirmed by email. A refund on the way. There remains zero residual obligation.
But lets see what happens.

 

[RooFlyer]

What I hate with these creators now is the click bait thumbnails they use to try and get clicks. What happened to the good old fashioned review without all the nonsense.

I agree - although it seems to be common no matter how 'sensible' the creator is. I wonder if its inherent in the software (I have no idea how its all done!) Genuine pilot Petr at Mentour Pilot I believe is well respected and gives good analytical content of airline issues/incidents. Yet his stories come up as :

 

[Quickstatus]

Yet his stories come up as :

My understanding is these thumbnails are created by a thumbnail service or an graphic artist (not YouTube)

For example Mentour gets his video art from Electrify

 

[RooFlyer]

My understanding is these thumbnails are created by a thumbnail service or an graphic artist (not YouTube)

Thanks. You'd have to think the content-maker (Petr in this case) would have to OK the art. I guess he needs clicks as much as anyone.

 

[ols]

If anything, and pending a lotto win, I'm more inclined to want to stay at this brand's hotels. Or any brand that bans filming by "content creators".

I would pay extra to stay at places that banned 'effluencers"

 

[Quickstatus]

would have to OK the art.

The alternative is YT takes random snippets of the video and uses it as the thumbnail.

The bigger YouTubers have the revenue to afford digital art.

 

[elanshin]

What I hate with these creators now is the click bait thumbnails they use to try and get clicks. What happened to the good old fashioned review without all the nonsense.

Can't survive on YouTube. Basically EVERY creator has to make clickbait thumbnails and titles or they get punished out of a job. It will also likely never make it to your feed unless you specifically are subscribed and have notification bell on for them.