UPDATE: Gizmodo sleezy tactics.

Posted by David Ciccone in September 25th, 2008

Posted in: Mobility Today Tags: engadget, gizmodo, motorolaQ11, sleezy

Yesterday we broke a story on the Motorola Q11 that we had spy shots of the yet to be announced phone. We clearly submitted our story on both sites for consideration. Well this morning I see that Gizmodo posted the story and completely deleted our watermark but didnt realize the encrypted watermark in the image is still there. Then also Engadget played their fun and games and posted our WATERMARKED photo with a link credit to another site.

UPDADTE: Joshua Editor in Cheif over at Engadget has edited the post to give us full credit in their READ link.. Kudos goes to Joshua for the update.

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Chris Oldroyd Said in September 25th, 2008 @9:21 am

Dave, This is crazy, why are they doing this, we all work hard posting news and stories and these so called big sites just steal them and give no credit, I am going to stop visiting them.

geoffrey Farinha Said in September 25th, 2008 @9:38 am

This should definitely be brought to someones attention.

billc124 Said in September 25th, 2008 @11:29 am

I am not defending either site here, but what did Engadget do wrong? They kept your watermark on the pictures and linked to the site they got the information from which links to your site. What is the issue, that you didn’t get credit from Engadget? That is what happens when you post things on blogs, other blogs link to them and then those blogs link to the other blogs and on and on…goes with the territory.

Gizmodo is a different story since they took away your watermark and didn’t even credit you. What they did was sleazy.

David Ciccone Said in September 25th, 2008 @12:39 pm

Bill thanks for your comment.. What is sleezy is that I sent the tip into them hours before they even ran the story. They do this all the time.

Joshua Topolsky Said in September 25th, 2008 @1:04 pm

Actually, we didn’t “update” the post. It always had a read link to your site.

Joshua Topolsky
Editor-in-chief, Engadget

David Ciccone Said in September 25th, 2008 @1:42 pm

Joshua thanks for commenting.. When we checked the READ link went to the other site.

Thanks for taking the time out to rectify the issue.

David Ciccone Said in September 25th, 2008 @3:19 pm

Joshua you might want to checkup on your editors. This is EXACTLY what happened to us. They clearly see the watermark but still never linked the source

http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/09/12/htcs-opal-to-be-launched-as-viva/

dmills Said in September 26th, 2008 @9:46 pm

Gizmodo is corrupt.

I was banned after making one, on topic post.

It was my first post on Gizmodo and it was not abusive or vulgar or anything other than a different point of view they did not agree with.

The did not even tell me I was banned.

I have never been banned from any other site.

billc124 Said in October 3rd, 2008 @3:19 pm

David,

If they do this stuff all the time, why would you ever submit anything to them? Just wondering for my own curiosity. I still understand and sympathize with your position, just not the thinking behind it.

Bill

David Ciccone Said in October 3rd, 2008 @4:36 pm

Because I did have some good friends at Gizmodo and previously they have always been good to me. Joel and John were really willing to link us and bent over backwards for us as we would do for them. I will continue to send them tips.. They were good to us.

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