Joe.ie goes Bang!!

sasta le

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/joe-ie-parent-has-examiner-appointed-on-petition-of-creditor-1.4254590?mode=amp&fbclid=IwAR1dZrwtAsV87BkBmKVoez08fkXBBuMNPAq_D2mbmRmQxO010h_ye1cdA4A

da_miser

And nothing of value was lost...

RocketRaccoon

da_miser wrote: »

And nothing of value was lost...

Peoples jobs?

da_miser

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Peoples jobs?

They are "journalists" they can learn to code, thats what the journalist told the rest of us to do when we lost our jobs

sasta le

Heard they were crap to work for except the few there at the very start..yound media folk wanted to be involved but not as good as expected

q85dw7osi4lebg

"In court documents, BPC said that, under a 2018 loan agreement, it has advanced some €6.02 million to Maximum Media with monthly interests repayments of some €68,000. The current loan balance is €6.1 million, it said."




How, what, why.... That is incredible debt for a clickbait site.

Arghus

I dunno, I feel sorry for people who have lost work, but they didn't create anything of worth themselves and piggybacked off other people's content to get those clicks.

radiotrickster

For the most part, Joe.ie has been a bit clickbaity but it’s also brought some great talent to the forefront. An example is Carl Kinsella, a great writer with a large following on Twitter.

I’m not sure how Joe has retained its credibility with advertisers after the click-farming scandal. Massive job losses and debt were always inevitable, imo.

godtabh

Why does a site like joe.ie need €6m? That’s ridiculous

GT89

Absolute crap the lot of it. It was all either click bait or virtue signalling

I only ever really saw adds for it, but I won't miss them..

ChikiChiki

godtabh wrote: »

Why does a site like joe.ie need €6m? That’s ridiculous

Reading that article it alludes evidence of financial mismanagement and unpaid taxes.

6 million is a lot, reads similar to events at the FAI.

Richard Hillman

Get Woke, Go Broke

Joe.ie, the thinking man's diversion. Especially after a lobotomy. In this week's quiz, what colour is blue? And did you hear the McDonald's drive thru is reopening, queue up today and you will receive service tomorrow.

It hardly registered. No loss then.

silverharp

10 Reasons why Buzzfeed if failing, you wont believe number 6

Mantis Toboggan

Will miss the GAA hour with Wolly Parkinson. Hopefully starts something separately.

whisky_galore

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Peoples jobs?

A child can copy and paste.

AndyBoBandy

Would occasionally check the desktop website as they usually do a daily 'what movies are on tonight' feature, which was mildly useful.
Although even that became more and more troublesome lately as it would take ages for the page to load because of all the ads the page contained.

Also very cringy was the weekly Late Late show 'stories' (that were clearly sponsored by RTÉ);
Started off with a piece on a Friday saying who was on the Late Late that night, then shortly afterwards they also started saying who was on Graham Norton (I guess to not make the RTÉ ad look so obvious), but for the Late Late preview it was a paragraph for each of the RTÉ staff that was on that night, and for the Graham Norton preview, it was simply named what Hollywood superstars were on that night's show.

Then you could be guaranteed that from Saturday to Monday, there were usually 2-3 stories a day about the 'mad gas craic' that was had on the previous nights Late Late show, with customary clips of said 'banter'. Isn't Ryan Tubridy brilliant........

Joe.ie, will not be missed.

Rodney Bathgate

The quizzes were the only half decent part of the site.

Lemsiper

https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Maximum-Media-EI_IE1276804.11,24.htm

ChelseaRentBoy

GT89 wrote: »

Absolute crap the lot of it. It was all either click bait or virtue signalling

Much like the TheJournal.ie. so.

Eric Cartman

This is what they deserve. Started as a site for sports and banter for lads, ended up becoming lefty clickbait and stoking falsehoods to further their advertisers agenda.

ILoveYourVibes

JOE.IE was NOT woke! Please.

And your politics don't sink you ...lack of talent will lack of original content will..lack of creativity will.

JOE was basic.

Silentcorner

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

JOE.IE was NOT woke! Please.

And your politics don't sink you ...lack of talent will lack of original content will..lack of creativity will.

JOE was basic.

That is what makes them woke, the culture itself is devoid of any creativity....

Look at the state of the BBC or Channel 4....

Woke Culture or politics or whatever you want to call it is commercial suicide.

Muscles Schultz

radiotrickster wrote: »

For the most part, Joe.ie has been a bit clickbaity but it’s also brought some great talent to the forefront. An example is Carl Kinsella, a great writer with a large following on Twitter.

I’m not sure how Joe has retained its credibility with advertisers after the click-farming scandal. Massive job losses and debt were always inevitable, imo.

What was the click farming scandal?

MoonUnit75

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

JOE.IE was NOT woke! Please.

And your politics don't sink you ...lack of talent will lack of original content will..lack of creativity will.

JOE was basic.

You're right, they were so not woke. I thought they were stunning and brave.

Mantis Toboggan

Mantis Toboggan wrote: »

Will miss the GAA hour with Wolly Parkinson. Hopefully starts something separately.

Yeah that was my first thought too.

ILoveYourVibes

MoonUnit75 wrote: »

You're right, they were so not woke. I thought they were stunning and brave.

I thought they were annoying and clickbaity.

silver2020

Junior Purple Moisture wrote: »

"In court documents, BPC said that, under a 2018 loan agreement, it has advanced some €6.02 million to Maximum Media with monthly interests repayments of some €68,000. The current loan balance is €6.1 million, it said."




How, what, why.... That is incredible debt for a clickbait site.

fools and their money....



But once they were caught blatantly cheating using a click farm, the writing was on the wall.

ILoveYourVibes

I don't know why i hated joe.ie
But i am experiencing schadenfraude.

Mad_maxx

radiotrickster wrote: »

For the most part, Joe.ie has been a bit clickbaity but it’s also brought some great talent to the forefront. An example is Carl Kinsella, a great writer with a large following on Twitter.

I’m not sure how Joe has retained its credibility with advertisers after the click-farming scandal. Massive job losses and debt were always inevitable, imo.

what is kinsella other than an uber WOKE PC merchant ?

raven136

Mad_maxx wrote: »

what is kinsella other than an uber WOKE PC merchant ?

A really good writer

Mad_maxx

raven136 wrote: »

A really good writer

stock n trade leftist

ten a penny in this country

4068ac1elhodqr

Are click farms the new chick farms?

Was thinking of a shed load of chickens etc, for fine food and organic hen eggs to flog down at the Farmer's market.
Now after reading about Joe, would a tin shed of blackmarket far-eastern mouse finger clickers, be the real big earner?

Birneybau

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

I don't know why i hated joe.ie
But i am experiencing schadenfraude.

It was the owner for me, always thought he was a chancer.


https://www.irishtimes.com/business/media-and-marketing/niall-mcgarry-steps-away-from-maximum-media-business-in-ireland-1.4098499

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_McGarry

GiftofGab

godtabh wrote: »

Why does a site like joe.ie need €6m? That’s ridiculous

Well they used to sponsor Conor McGregor during the ufc. Had joe.ie written across his a*rse. That would cost a few bob.

Shefwedfan

Every sports website is now reduced to clickbait

Joe.ie rugby podcast was good. Not sure why people are revelling in people losing jobs. Just a bit distasteful.....

Arghus

Couldn't get past the owner either - just look at him.

suicide_circus

Arghus wrote: »

Couldn't get past the owner either - just look at him.

looks like he spent the €6m on tight white shirts, spray tan and goatee maintenance

geordi

The reviews on Glassdoor are a good read - total car crash of a business https://www.glassdoor.ie/Reviews/Maximum-Media-Reviews-E1276804.htm

L1011

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Would occasionally check the desktop website as they usually do a daily 'what movies are on tonight' feature, which was mildly useful.
Although even that became more and more troublesome lately as it would take ages for the page to load because of all the ads the page contained.

Also very cringy was the weekly Late Late show 'stories' (that were clearly sponsored by RTÉ);
Started off with a piece on a Friday saying who was on the Late Late that night, then shortly afterwards they also started saying who was on Graham Norton (I guess to not make the RTÉ ad look so obvious), but for the Late Late preview it was a paragraph for each of the RTÉ staff that was on that night, and for the Graham Norton preview, it was simply named what Hollywood superstars were on that night's show.

Then you could be guaranteed that from Saturday to Monday, there were usually 2-3 stories a day about the 'mad gas craic' that was had on the previous nights Late Late show, with customary clips of said 'banter'. Isn't Ryan Tubridy brilliant........

Joe.ie, will not be missed.

RTE don't have the money for any of that. They just provided better press releases to copy/paste from; and the recap content is piss easy to and gets the clicks.

ChikiChiki

geordi wrote: »

The reviews on Glassdoor are a good read - total car crash of a business https://www.glassdoor.ie/Reviews/Maximum-Media-Reviews-E1276804.htm

What's the video scandal?

Always sensed something was off about the owner. Almost wanted the status and notiority without putting the real work in. The click farm debacle showed up the whole thing as a con job.

GiftofGab

GiftofGab wrote: »

Well they used to sponsor Conor McGregor during the ufc. Had joe.ie written across his a*rse. That would cost a few bob.

Serves them right the c*nts so..

Still waters

It was really shìt

Website is still up.

The Ireland Unfiltered podcast is another one along with the GAA Hour that I hope finds a new home when it does go.

Sheep Shagger

whisky_galore wrote: »

A child can copy and paste.

And scrape tweets.

landofthetree

I hate the site. It's a left wing Marxist pile of rubbish.

But I'm sorry to see people lose their jobs.

L1011

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Website is still up.

They're in examinership, not liquidation. Yet.

Arghus

landofthetree wrote: »

I hate the site. It's a left wing Marxist pile of rubbish.

But I'm sorry to see people lose their jobs.

Marxist? Ah here, get a grip.

It's plastered full of ads!

Jim Root

It’s a shame as their visionary leader will no doubt cite COVID as the reason it went under, when in reality, it was built on quicksand all along.