{"id":23527,"date":"2018-11-28T15:06:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=23527"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:06:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:06:47","slug":"sponsored-amazon-baby-registry-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/28\/sponsored-amazon-baby-registry-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Sponsored Amazon Baby Registry Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-parents-complain-amazon-ads-are-deceptive-1543417201?mod=hp_lead_pos9\">Rolfe Winkler and Laura Stevens<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RolfeWinkler\/status\/1067813546526879744\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-parents-complain-amazon-ads-are-deceptive-1543417201?mod=hp_lead_pos9\"><p>Kima Nieves recently received two Aveeno bath-time sets and a box of Huggies diapers through her baby registry on Amazon. The only problem? The new mother didn&rsquo;t ask for the products, or even want them.<\/p><p>Instead, Johnson &amp; Johnson and Kimberly-Clark Corp. paid Amazon.com Inc. hefty sums to place those sponsored products onto Ms. Nieves&rsquo;s and other consumers&rsquo; baby registries. The ads look identical to the rest of the listed products in the registry, except for a small gray &ldquo;Sponsored&rdquo; tag. Unsuspecting friends and family clicked on the ads and purchased the items, assuming Ms. Nieves had chosen them.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&rsquo;s sponsored ads have appeared in its baby registries for more than a year. Responding to a Wall Street Journal inquiry about the ads, an Amazon spokeswoman declined to comment on criticism that the ads are deceptive, but said the retailer is now phasing out the sponsored listings.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolfe Winkler and Laura Stevens (tweet): Kima Nieves recently received two Aveeno bath-time sets and a box of Huggies diapers through her baby registry on Amazon. The only problem? The new mother didn&rsquo;t ask for the products, or even want them.Instead, Johnson &amp; Johnson and Kimberly-Clark Corp. paid Amazon.com Inc. hefty sums to place those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-11-28T20:06:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"da0cea55-6618-4922-bcfd-1491b1b2acf0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-11-28T20:06:50Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2gzqVWYYSSK8_RSRsbKs8A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[354,19,509,96],"class_list":["post-23527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-advertising","tag-amazon","tag-shopping","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23528,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23527\/revisions\/23528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}