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Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel
It’s since backpedaled.
The tech review world has been full of murky deals between companies and influencers for years, but it appears Google finally crossed a line with the Pixel 9. Officially, it’s a program handled by PR agency 1000Heads that seeds early units to influencers and superfans to drum up interest as brand ambassadors. Popular tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee posted on X clarifying that he wasn’t part of the Team Pixel program and was not beholden to those terms.
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