This assumes, of course, that he is not preselling, which is not a good practice anyway, and only necessary in the absence of quality ad copy on the vendor page.

Disclosure is not required, as you suggested, but is an ethical gesture.

Ron

I think that having an affiliations page or mentioning something in your terms of service (as you suggested) about the relationships you have should be sufficient.

I agree with you that it would probably be difficult to provide these details in a podcast or video. Maybe with a video you could just have a piece of text in your credits. In your podcast you could easily refer them to your affiliations page for more details about our sponsors or recommended partners.

What does everyone else think. This is a great topic. I’ll keep an eye on this post to see what others think.

These are all misleading in a way. Why should we be held to a different standard so that we must interrupt our content?

That said, I make it a point to disclose my relationship to links on my site. I value my podcast listeners too much to deceive them and I only put up links that I think will provide a value to them and products that I use myself.

My 2 cents. Uh Jason, I bought your book. Do we have to provide disclosure or is that only if I post on your publisher’s blog ;)