False Advertisting – The Athletic: Sports News Review

When I signed up for The Athletic almost 4 years ago, one of their tent-pole selling points was that their content served “personalized, ad-free coverage for the teams you care about”. I was happy to fork over my own money to support high quality sports journalism, in exchange for a product that wasn’t covered in ads like much of the rest of the sports media options out there. Today, I opened a story about the upcoming Winter Classic game in Minnesota, and what do I see in the middle of the article? A banner advertisement for BETMGM encouraging me to “Bet $10, Win $200”. I’m greatly disappointed to see The Athletic start to pump out ads in their app like the kind they used to say they’d never do. It’s not the one ad in particular for why this is a one-star app, it’s the complete abandonment of one of the values the company alleges to be founded upon.
Review by Cowbell Guy on The Athletic: Sports News.