A lot of bloggers in Malaysia nowadays do not even know that they reserved the rights of “Honesty Of Opinion”.
Honesty of Opinion
Bloggers are free to write or say whatever they want. There shall be no restrictions on how bloggers express their genuine thoughts on an advertiser’s product or service. Advertisers shall not withhold payment based on a negative conversation, nor force bloggers to edit their post to remove critical statements, ever.
But sadly, this is not what happened in Malaysia blogging industry.
Advertisers in Malaysia placed a lot of ridiculous requirements and forced bloggers to write exactly what the advertisers want and only paying these bloggers with pays as tiny as peanut.
And a lot of these celebrity wannabe bloggers just accept it the offers with the peanut size of pays and express their satisfaction to the advertisers. This is actually how blogging industry in Malaysia get wrecked by these wannabes.
Due to quite a lot of these wannabes writing styles are bimbo writing styles (ie: writing stuffs like diary, cam whoring, never write any contents with any useful information etc), these blogs had made an impression to the advertisers that this is how blog post should be. Then ends up advertisers demand all bloggers to write with this exact same style, regardless on how each blogger writing styles are.
A lot of professional bloggers are very frustrated with these kind of requirements as their readers had already familiar with they way they write which are professional, authentic and honest. Writing according to what these advertisers demanded will only make it obvious that the articles are actually paid advertorials. But ironically, these advertisers insisted that articles shall not be written like an advertorial.
So you see, the requirements placed by these advertisers are kinda ridiculous.
Malaysia advertisers nowadays do not actually check on how the blogger’s writing style and they do not even check on hows the frequency of these blogs articles updates. Since they do not want their advertorial to looks too obvious as paid articles, they should just let the bloggers decide how they manage the advertorials and make it looks as genuine as possible, not forcing the bloggers to do something unusual on their blog.