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Verified against ChatGPT · 2026-07-29

Write a gifted or sponsored product review that stays honest and properly disclosed

Scripts a full product-review video that separates genuine assessment from the terms of how the product was obtained, and states the required disclosure clearly up front — instead of a review that reads as an ad because the terms of receipt shaped every claim in it.

ChatGPTClaudeGemini5 fillable variables

The prompt

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You are writing a full product review script for a product the creator received for free, at a discount, or as a paid partnership. The review has to be genuinely useful and honest, with the terms of how the product was obtained disclosed clearly and separated from the actual assessment — not folded quietly into praise that reads more like sponsored copy than an independent opinion.

PRODUCT AND HOW IT WAS OBTAINED
A robot vacuum sent free by the manufacturer, no payment made, no script approval required by the brand

GENUINE TESTING RESULTS, INCLUDING FLAWS
Navigation is genuinely excellent on hard floors and handles pet hair well; it repeatedly gets stuck on a specific type of low-pile rug fringe and the companion app crashed twice during setup

DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT
FTC-required disclosure for a gifted product, plus YouTube's "includes paid promotion" tag is not required since no payment was made, but a verbal "this was sent to me for free" disclosure is required

ANY CONTRACTUAL CONTENT REQUIREMENTS FROM THE BRAND
None — this is an unpaid gifted unit with no content requirements from the manufacturer

CHANNEL VOICE
Direct, mentions price-to-performance explicitly, comfortable saying a product is mediocre

SCRIPT RULES
State the disclosure — gifted, discounted, or paid partnership, whichever actually applies — clearly and early, in plain spoken language, not only as a small on-screen tag easy to miss; this is a legal and platform requirement, not a stylistic option the review's tone can soften or bury. Include every real flaw or limitation found in testing, even if a brand requirement exists to mention specific positive features — a contractual obligation to mention a feature is not the same as an obligation to omit a real problem, and a review that mentions every required positive point while silently dropping a genuine flaw found in testing has crossed from sponsored emphasis into a misleading review, which is a different and worse thing. Where a brand requirement asks for something a genuine test doesn't actually support — say, describing a feature as "revolutionary" when testing found it merely adequate — flag the conflict explicitly rather than complying with the stronger language or quietly writing around the problem; state honestly what testing actually showed and let a phrase like "revolutionary" only appear if it's a defensible description of the real result. Keep the disclosure and the actual assessment structurally distinct in the script — the disclosure states how the product was obtained and what obligations that created, the assessment states what testing found — so a viewer can tell which parts are procedural fact and which are the creator's actual opinion, rather than blending them into a single continuous stream where the distinction disappears. Where testing results are mixed, structure the conclusion around the actual mixed result — a genuine "good for X, not for Y" — instead of forcing a falsely uniform positive or negative verdict that flattens real nuance the testing surfaced.

OUTPUT FORMAT
1. The disclosure statement, exact required wording included, placed at the point in the script it needs to appear.
2. The full review script covering genuine testing results, both positive and negative, as spoken lines.
3. A closing verdict reflecting the real mixed or clear result from testing, not a flattened one.
4. A flagged list of any brand requirement that conflicted with a genuine testing finding, and how it was resolved honestly.

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Why this works

Requiring the disclosure in clear spoken language, not only a small on-screen tag, targets a specific and well-documented enforcement gap: FTC endorsement guidance is explicit that a disclosure has to be clear and conspicuous — easily noticed and understood by the audience taking in the content the way they normally would — and a disclosure that exists only as brief on-screen text a viewer could easily miss while listening rather than reading does not reliably meet that standard, which is a materially different and more serious failure than an audience simply finding the review less persuasive. Separating brand-required positive mentions from the obligation to also report genuine flaws directly targets the actual mechanism by which a review quietly becomes an ad without ever using ad language: a contractual requirement to mention specific features is compatible with an honest review that also states real problems, and it's specifically the silent omission of a genuine flaw — not the required positive mention itself — that converts an honestly-disclosed sponsored review into a misleading one, so the rule isolates exactly the failure to guard against rather than treating any brand involvement as inherently compromising. Flagging language conflicts explicitly — a brand wanting "revolutionary," testing showing merely adequate — rather than either complying or quietly softening the language creates a checkable record of exactly where commercial pressure and genuine findings diverged, which protects the creator's credibility in a durable way: an audience that later discovers a specific inflated claim didn't match real testing loses trust not just in that one review but retroactively in every review the channel has published, since the entire format depends on an assumption of genuine independent assessment that a single caught instance of language overriding evidence can collapse. Keeping the disclosure and the assessment structurally distinct in the script, rather than blended into one continuous stream, gives a viewer an actual way to parse which parts of what they're hearing are procedural fact about how the review came to exist and which parts are the creator's real opinion — a distinction that matters most exactly in a paid or gifted context, where the audience's default skepticism is highest and the clearest possible separation is what actually earns continued trust rather than eroding it further.

Verified against

ChatGPT GPT-5.1 · 2026-07-29

Claude Sonnet 4.6 · 2026-08-06

Changelog

  • 2026-07-29 Initial publish, verified against ChatGPT (GPT-5.1) and Claude (Sonnet 4.6).

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