Ethics
Our audience’s trust is our greatest responsibility.
Our Ethics Policy guides every choice we make.
Policy Overview
No Paid Reviews
We never accept payment for reviews. While we occasionally receive free products, we treat these items impartially, as if we purchased them ourselves.
Mandatory Disclosures
Transparency builds trust. We always disclose whether products are received for free or purchased. We clearly identify sponsors at the beginning of our videos and during any sponsored segments.
No Individual Stocks
No employee or owner of 6 Months Later is allowed to trade individual stocks of any company we cover.
Ethics Policy
Updated: April 2024
These are the core guidelines for our code of conduct:
- We don’t accept payments to review any product, period.
- When we receive a product from a brand, we will disclose that information in the video.
- Yes, we wait six months from when we receive a product to when we release our review.
- When one of our videos has a sponsored segment:
- we will disclose who sponsored the segment within the first 45 seconds of the video.
- we will also verbally and visually announce who the sponsor is at the start of the sponsored segment.
- We do not accept preconditions for coverage of a product we review.
- No employees of 6 Months Later invest directly in any companies we cover.
Partner Programs Disclosures
Paid Content, Integrated Ads, and Free Products
We partner with various brands to help subsidize the cost of producing our content.
Anytime someone pays us to integrate an ad or do an entire video and whenever we receive a product for free, we’ll disclose that information within the first 45 seconds of a video. When an integrated ad segment begins, we’ll disclose that information verbally and visually.
Beginning of Video Disclosure:
Beginning of Ad Segment Disclosure:
Affiliate Marketing
We can earn a small commission when we link to a product in our videos, website, or other content and someone clicks that link and buys a product.
These are the affiliate programs we are currently a part of:
- Amazon Associates Program
- AmeriDroid Affiliate Program
- YouTube Shopping
We’ll always let you know when a link is an affiliate link. You’ll see a clear notice right next to or above it. If you find an affiliate link we missed labelling, please contact us so we can correct it.