Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Dog on a Swing on the Discord Server asks a similar question, Hey Gary, do advertisers have any say In what type of episodes their ads will appear in? I imagine some companies wouldn’t want to see their products associated with the Bataan Death March, but would be happy to be in front of an episode on Roller Coaster or Pumpkins. The answer is no, and in fact, the subject has never even been brought up. I think most advertisers know what they are getting themselves into when they advertise on this podcast and they realize that even if the subject isn’t a cheery one, it will at least be handled in a responsible way.

Also, even if they wanted to just appear on certain episodes, I couldn’t really do that because I often don’t know what I’m going to be doing on an episode on till a day or two in advance.

The only exception to this is if someone is doing a baked-in ad on a fully sponsored episode. I’ve only done a handful of these since the show began.