(This article was originally published on June 18, 2020. We resurfaced it on the front page to mark the resumption of the 2019-20 season.)
Imagine that these were the holders of nbamaniacs:
- Kyrie Irving messes up and the NBA could disappear!
- The day Scottie Pippen and Antoni Daimiel almost came to blows
- The NBA will have players with monitoring bracelets and bowling for three months
- The NBA trembles before the possible Big Three between LeBron, Davis and Gasol
- Guess which NBA legend will also have his own documentary
- The NBA coach who had coronavirus and almost didn't tell it
And now imagine that the sponsors who write every week offering their support had a positive response from us. They suggest that we offer you this content: from prepaid betting houses, of casino comparators, de gambling, of those who offer €70 for a post, of betting houses and casinos, of no one knows what, We don't know what, but we don't know who pays for it., of no one knows what but say that one of us wrote it even if it's a lie...
God, I'm so sick of receiving those emails. (Click on the links above if you want to see the real world of advertising).
Obviously, we haven't gotten those headlines. We are not publishing those types of texts paid for by sponsors. But we don't know how long we will be able to continue avoiding it. (Yes, we have content advertising somewhat creepy in the comments area, but without that advertising module we would have disappeared more than a year ago).
The situation has been getting worse and worse for digital publications for some time. Advertising is reporting less income and it is no longer enough to create news and articles and expect to be read so that programmatic advertising covers the costs. No, now we have to create more content, more striking and more viral, seasoned with covert sponsored posts, throwing away any professional ethics and respect for the reader.
That is why this article you are reading serves two purposes.
The first
To announce that we are launching a big renewal of Extra nbamaniacs. From now on we offer two different options:
- Subscription of €2/month or €20/year that includes:
- nbamaniacs.com ad-free.
- Occasional special texts in nbamaniacs.com or our newsletter.
- Subscription of €5/month or €50/year that includes:
- nbamaniacs.com ad-free.
- Access to occasional giveaways for merchandise, books and sneakers.
- All episodes of The nbamaniacs podcast.
- Exclusive texts published in nbamaniacs.com.
- Exclusive texts published in our newsletter.
- An exclusive Discord server made up of members of our editorial staff and subscribers.
We think the option of €5 per month or €50 per year is magnificent. It allows us to offer our best content to the audience in addition to being able to contact readers in comments on exclusive articles as well as in the Discord chat. And the bonus of offering advertising-free browsing seems to us to be a detail that should be liked, because currently you can't get rid of it even if you are a subscriber to the New York Times o El Mundo, to mention two well-known media in these parts.
The €2 option allows virtually any visitor to nbamaniacs.com can afford to purchase a subscription to support a medium that offers hundreds of monthly updates for free with the added bonus of being able to browse without advertising of any kind.
Our current subscribers at Extra nbamaniacs They learned the news in June and their response was very positive since Extra nbamaniacs has improved substantially with the change.
The second
The advertising situation is not going to improve since all media outlets have been going downhill for years and there are massive layoffs of journalists every now and then. Therefore, as responsible for nbamaniacs, I find it impossible to maintain our current content policy, journalistic integrity and our white paper without great support from our readers and listeners by subscribing to Extra nbamaniacs.
If that great support did not arrive, changes would occur. To continue maintaining nbamaniacs With the volume of coverage that we have always had, we would be forced to hide the white paper. And start promoting betting houses, online games and other niceties in addition to opening our range of content so we can talk about topics such as weddings of NBA players, from the series Netflix that triumphs among the NBA, the tattoos that the NBA get, LeBron James' beard or even, what do I know, crossovers with the last hour on Cristiano Ronaldo, Griezmann, Mbappé or Neymar. If all of them like the NBA, it won't be difficult for us to create content of that type.
You know nbamaniacs since a time ago. Months, years maybe. Visits nbamaniacs over and over again because you know that those headlines don't exist here, because they don't we football Nor do we Spanishize the NBA, because there is no covert promotional content, because we are not with the betting houses day in and day out. Are you coming to nbamaniacs to debate in the comments or read the best commentators since it is the most active NBA community in Spanish in the world. You know that here we work in a certain way, explained in our white paper for a long time and applied on a daily basis. All of this has allowed us to gain your trust. Now we need your support directly so as not to take a step that we do not want to take unless we are obliged to do so.
Subscribe. Choose the €2 or €5 option. The €20 one or the €50 one. The one you can, the one that fits you. But if you like nbamaniacs, what we do and you stop by to read and comment, we ask you to support us because it depends on you that this continues as always.
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