Talk:Gary Vaynerchuk

Merge into podcast page
Since this page is pretty light on detail and since there's a page already for his podcast, shouldn't we merge this into Wine Library TV? Zimbardo Cookie Experiment 16:21, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Honestly I don't know if the podcast merits an article. I see more benefit in drastically stubbifying that article and merging a few lines of content here. AgneCheese/Wine 16:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I will defer to your judgment, as I'm not familiar enough with the podcast to know whether or not it's particularly noteworthy. In either case, a merge is a fine idea.  The podcast page does seem wordy and full of trivia. Zimbardo Cookie Experiment 17:53, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Link to a review site
Hi,

Yesterday I deleted an external link from this article's page. It was a link to the page http://tilzy.tv/. Specifically the tilzy-page on this article's topic. I came to the idea of deleting those links as such a link was also added to Ze Frank's wikipedia page, and I expected that there wouldn't be much new information on such an external site, as Ze Frank's show ended more than half a year ago.

I got a mail now by one of the founders of tilzy.tv. He explained to me relatively convincingly that he didn't post the link, and that he thinks of his site as adding extra information.

Whether or not we re-add this link should probably be based on External_links.

I am actually not sure whether tilzy.tv is a ''Sites that contain neutral and accurate material that cannot be integrated into the Wikipedia article due to copyright issues, amount of detail (such as professional athlete statistics, movie or television credits, interview transcripts, or online textbooks) or other reasons.''

Does someone else know this site?

My main concern was, that there should be several sites that aggregate links to vlogs. Even several sites that aggregate links and add write a small review about them. So I wasn't sure whether tilzy.tv is in someway special or provided better information.

Could maybe someone post his/her opinion on that, so we can decided whether or not to include the links to tilzy.tv.

Thanks, -- JanCK (talk) 09:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
 * What I glean from WP:EL are that external links should be relevant and encyclopedic to the subject and in looking at the link I really don't see much benefit to the article in having it. Maybe Ze Frank but it serves little purpose in this one. AgneCheese/Wine 10:00, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Post-Merge Clean Up
This article is pretty mixed up since the merge, so I started cleaning it up by changing the infobox from Television Show to Internet Celebrity. I also added his IMDb profile and removed his Cork'd profile since it seems redundant to the article. Now is the hard part... moving around the body of the article so it jives better as a Biography. Anyone want to help? Species5618 (talk) 22:14, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

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I would rate this low on all the wikis - wine, wine and food, and biography. (talk) 05:45, 4 July 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.29.1.114 (talk)

This "article" is absolutely self promotion. This guy has just put himself on wikipedia - just look at the edits. In my opininion this article can be deleted as it is at least 75% selfpromotional. First link is an "interview" on his own site - ridiculous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.23.213.219 (talk) 13:53, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Wine Library TV and celebrity guests
Just to say that I removed "Legendary Wine Importer" after the name Kermit Lynch, initially it was the capitals that caught my attention, then "legendary" definitely runs afoul of WP:NPOV, and then why say who this guy is when there are no descriptions for the others, apart from a couple at the end. To be consistent, I'm going to remove the "Super Bowl Winning NFL Head Coach" bit too. Listen, I'm from the UK, the only name I recognized was Gretsky's, I don't think that a lot of these people are household names and either you say who everybody is or you don't. And if you're curious, you can always click on a name to find out. Captain Screebo (talk) 21:20, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Self-Promoting Nonsense
Does this person need a wikipedia page? Shouldn't it at least try to sound like an encyclopedia. This is pure marketing and promotion.
 * I think he clearly meets notability for a biography criteria, so I think it would be a waste of time to try to delete this article.
 * Clear edit requests would be helpful to help us address the common problems of promotional content in this article. --Ronz (talk) 16:54, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Recognition section moved from article for discussion
Moved from the article:

Vaynerchuk has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, GQ, and Time, and has appeared on  The Joe Rogan Experience, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Ellen.

In the 2000s, Vaynerchuk was described as "the first wine guru of the YouTube era", "the wine world's new superstar", and by Rob Newsom, a Washington State wine maker, "outside of Robert Parker, probably the most influential wine critic in the United States". In 2003, Market Watch magazine awarded Gary Vaynerchuk its Market Watch Leader" award, making him its youngest recipient. In July 2009 Decanter ranked Vaynerchuk at #40 on "The Power List" ranking of the wine industry's individuals of influence, citing that he "represents the power of blogging".

In 2011, The Wall Street Journal named Vaynerchuk to its list of Twitter's Small Business Big Shots and Bloomberg's Business Week named him to its list of 20 People Every Entrepreneur Should Follow. In 2013, Vaynerchuk made the November cover of Inc. magazine in a feature on "How to Master the 4 Big Social-Media Platforms."

In 2014, he was named to Fortune's 40 Under 40 and selected to judge the Miss America pageant. In 2015 he was named to Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40 and named to Inc.’s list of "Top 25 Social Media Keynote Speakers You Need to Know." In 2016 Vaynerchuk was a judge for the Genius Awards.

Is any of this actually noteworthy and encyclopedic? At a glance, it all looks like promotion, none of the recognition appears notable, and the sources not independent. --Ronz (talk) 17:38, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Leaders in social networks

 * In 2017, according to |Forbes, he headed the top most authoritative opinion leaders in social networks in the world 可愛い (talk) 17:38, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
 * It looks reliable. I'm not sure how much mention it is due, but I think it would be fine to note within the article. --Ronz (talk) 01:28, 17 December 2018 (UTC)

Family
Leaving a note here for other editors to save some time. Namely, there aren't any reliable sources for Gary's family. While his own website says his wife's and kids' names, no reputable outlet supports that. 62.194.192.95 (talk) 23:38, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * If they're not notable themselves, names of minors should not be included. The name of his wife and the number of children, properly verified, should be fine. --Ronz (talk) 23:41, 17 October 2019 (UTC) I couldn't find any reliable sources that support the existence of the wife and children. 62.194.192.95 (talk) 23:53, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Dubious claims and POV
Some of the claims that appear dubious -- especially around "growing a family wine business from $3 million to $60 million in around 5-6 years (1998 to 2003)" are supported by a number of media sources. Among those are a staff article by two editors; one of which now appears to be the editor in chief of Business Insider. I've added that source but I'm curious if anyone else finds that claim, nonetheless, to be dubious. If so, it means Business Insider isn't reliable -- even when it's written by staff (two staff editors in this case, at the time). 62.194.192.95 (talk) 23:53, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

Further, what are the POV issues on this particular page? Should it "slam" him for telling some college students to quit and start a company? Or does that present the same non-neutral point of view problems Wikipedia attempts to resolve in the first place? 62.194.192.95 (talk) 23:53, 17 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help. Even in the wine industry, $3 to $60 mil seems a stretch. Still, the ref looks okay, and is the type of info that I'd expect to be fact-checked.
 * Identifying the authors for all the references would help with article review (publication date, etc too). Removing/replacing further contributor-authored refs, and anything similar would help.
 * Are any of the refs an actual in-depth biography? --Ronz (talk) 00:25, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Latest well-checked biography is at 174.47.44.231 (talk) 22:17, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

The original list of awards is wine heavy and not big. The one though work plucking out to add to the page is Crain's 40 under 40. Perhaps other editors see differently or see other ones from the original list that make sense. 174.47.44.231 (talk) 23:01, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
 * We're already using the NYTimes article you mention. Seems like it could be used further --Ronz (talk) 00:31, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

It's worth re-reading, then, it sounds like from listening to your comment. What are your thoughts on the Crain's 40 Under 40 award? It doesn't have it's own page, but naturally Crain's does. 75.104.68.218 (talk) 01:21, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Separately that "COI" flag doesn't quite fit. If it serves as a "penalty" of sorts for awhile that makes sense. But better served Wikipedia would be without it and without any conflicted content included. There's the whole awards section that's now deleted -- or better stated -- removed to the Talk Page section above. Crain's might be the one award to actually add back.

But what else is offensive and causing the conflict flag, Ronz? Curious. 75.104.68.218 (talk) 01:21, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Are there independent sources demonstrating the award is noteworthy?
 * UDP tag, per the consistent sock/spa activity
 * The ip and WP:SPA activity with this article is a huge problem. I've been unable to keep up with it, and I don't believe anyone else has either. --Ronz (talk) 17:46, 11 December 2019 (UTC)

Like any flag, the focus should be on fixing the problem. The problem was or is promotion or advertising content. Flagging purely because there is or are IP editors once in a blue doesn't make any sense nor does it meet any of Wikipedia's guidelines. If there's a reason to cut out all IP editors (most of which go to see Gary speak just like I have four times) then up the protection level on the page. But even the requirements to do that on the page aren't met. 174.135.148.234 (talk) 02:36, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Welcome to Wikipedia. Your assessment of the article is incorrect. This article has been and continues to be dominated by ips. I've been unable to keep up. Perhaps they're mostly fans of Gary, which you appear to be. That's still a problem. --Ronz (talk) 19:29, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

Updates and clean up to 2019 standards
Easy to follow what's going on -- on this talk page. It's clear that the page needs more than one editor to weigh in, find issues, if any, and address them. 71.41.75.51 (talk) 04:00, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer a clear, full review of all sources and associated content. "Cleanup" doesn't capture that at all. --Ronz (talk) 16:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

Added to my list of projects to clean up. Looks like the next step is to parse each paragraph bit by bit. Fonz1951 (talk) 23:45, 26 December 2019 (UTC)

The opening section with Vice, CNBC, New York Times, Recode, Fortune and the book look solid. The Entrepreneur link is an affiliate marketing gig, deleted and not needed.

Gary Vaynerchuk (born Gennady Vaynerchuk; November 14, 1975; Генадзь Вайнярчук, Геннадий Вайнерчук) is a Belarusian American entrepreneur, New York Times best selling author, speaker, and Internet personality. First known as a wine critic who expanded his family's wine business, Vaynerchuk is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company, VaynerX, and as CEO of VaynerX subsidiary, VaynerMedia.

Fonz1951 (talk) 23:50, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Good catch spotting that opinion piece. That's exactly what we should be looking for. --Ronz (talk) 00:07, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

Moving to round two, early life.


 * CNBC looks fine.
 * Fortune looks fine.
 * AV media doesn't look reliable for the Queens / family story. That source I substituted with a long form article by ABC.
 * New Yorker looks fine.
 * My Central Jersey looks fine.
 * New York Times looks fine.

Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk in the Soviet Union (today part of Belarus), and immigrated to the United States in 1978 at the age of three. He is of Jewish descent. Vaynerchuk lived in a studio apartment in Queens, New York, with eight other family members. After living in Queens, Vaynerchuk and his family moved to Edison, New Jersey where Vaynerchuk operated a lemonade stand and earned thousands of dollars on weekends trading baseball cards. At age 14, he joined his family's retail-wine business. After his family moved, he graduated from North Hunterdon High School. Vaynerchuk graduated with a bachelor's degree from Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts in 1998.

Fonz1951 (talk) 03:03, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

Third round, the career section:


 * CNBC seems fine.
 * WSJ is fine.
 * Alleywatch is fine.
 * New York Times looks fine.
 * Business Insider is fine.
 * Fast Company is fine.
 * Digiday looks fine.
 * Entrepreneur staff piece is fine.
 * Digiday #2 looks fine.
 * Second New York Times piece is fine.
 * AdAge is fine.
 * Second CNBC in this batch is fine.
 * Second AdAge is fine.
 * Variety is fine.
 * Second WSJ piece is fine.
 * Marketing Dive news piece is fine.

Vaynerchuk's career spans startups, retail, marketing, and investing. He co-founded restaurant-reservation app, Resy, which was acquired by American Express.

Wine Library
After graduating from college in 1998, Vaynerchuk assumed day-to-day control of his father's Springfield, New Jersey store, Shopper's Discount Liquors. Gary renamed the store to Wine Library, launched sales online and in 2006 started Wine Library TV, a daily webcast covering wine.

Through e-commerce and pricing strategies, Vaynerchuk grew the business from $3 million a year to $60 million a year by 2003. In August 2011, Vaynerchuk said he would step away from the wine business to build VaynerMedia, a digital ad agency he co-founded with his brother in 2009.

VaynerX
Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a communications company that holds media properties, technology companies, and a social-media agency.

VaynerMedia
In 2009, Gary, along with his brother AJ Vaynerchuk, founded VaynerMedia, a social media–focused digital agency. The company provides social media and strategy services to Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Anheuser-Busch, Mondelez International and PepsiCo. In 2015, VaynerMedia was named one of Ad Age's A-List agencies. With 600 employees in 2016, VaynerMedia grossed $100 million in revenue. The company also partnered with Vimeo to connect brands and filmmakers for digital content.

Gallery Media Group
In 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that Vaynerchuk formed The Gallery, later named Gallery Media Group, a VaynerX subsidiary company that houses PureWow, following its acquisition by Vaynerchuk and RSE Ventures, male-oriented news outlet ONE37pm.com, and other media properties. Ryan Harwood, formerly the CEO of PureWow, leads Gallery Media Group. A sister company to digital agency, VaynerMedia, Marketing Dive wrote that "joining forces with VaynerMedia grants access to increased video capabilities given the in-house teams and resources."

Fonz1951 (talk) 03:29, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the good work.
 * It's usually very helpful to identify the type and quality each source. Besides independence, we're looking for depth of coverage on Vaynerchuk.
 * For example, the Horch CNBC (yes, we still need authors and publication dates added for the refs) is a promo piece with little depth about him. I'm concerned with how it's being used as well.
 * In-depth biographies and BIO references are the type of references that should dominate this article, if possible. --Ronz (talk) 05:01, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

I see what you mean. There's a fix here. Fonz1951 (talk) 19:12, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

I think I got them all. Not sure if there's a better "source" than the CNBC / Horch article you noted. I've added a Marketwatch article. Fonz1951 (talk) 20:14, 29 December 2019 (UTC)

New section on edits and clean up
I cut that contributor Inc article that was really just fluff and replaced it with a staff piece elsewhere. Fonz1951 (talk) 19:44, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

I also found this "profile" piece of sorts that came out this month in the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/arts/music/gary-vee-vaynerchuk.html Gary Vaynerchuk Is a Rapper's Best Friend Fonz1951 (talk) 19:44, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

New section 2020
For those involved or interested, let me know if you see additional edit items or adjustments here. Otherwise I'll clear the flag that you all wrote in earlier. Fonz1951 (talk) 21:25, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
 * If you're done, leave it to someone else. --Ronz (talk) 22:26, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Don't think we need so many tags
There are many editors watching this page. The article gets vandalized often enough, but it has also been cleaned up. I think the page can be cleared of the tags - the new tags for Autobiography and COI seem unwarranted. --Molochmeditates (talk) 04:39, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Requesting clean-up - Lead paragraph
Explanation: The lead paragraph can be changed from the current one to the one requested below. His birth name can be added in the infobox along with the reference for simplicity. Also, the translations seem superfluous. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted.

Gary Vaynerchuk (born Gennady Vaynerchuk; November 14, 1975; Генадзь Вайнярчук, Геннадий Вайнерчук) is a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, New York Times best selling author, speaker, and Internet personality. First known as a wine critic who expanded his family's wine business, Vaynerchuk is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company, VaynerX, and as CEO of VaynerX subsidiary, VaynerMedia.

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Gary Vaynerchuk (born November 14, 1975) is a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, author, public speaker, and internet personality. He is known for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company, VaynerX, and as CEO of it's subsidiary, VaynerMedia.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 17:15, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Removes key areas of notability without explanation. This is a non-starter. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:31, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Requesting clean-up - Early life section
Explanation: Requesting minor grammatical edits along with further clean-up from the current one to the one requested below. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted

Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk in the Soviet Union (today part of Belarus), and immigrated to the United States in 1978 at the age of three. He is of Jewish descent. Vaynerchuk lived in a studio apartment in Queens, New York, with eight other family members. After living in Queens, Vaynerchuk and his family moved to Edison, New Jersey where Vaynerchuk operated a lemonade stand and earned thousands of dollars on weekends trading baseball cards. At age 14, he joined his family's retail-wine business. After his family moved, he graduated from North Hunterdon High School. Vaynerchuk graduated with a bachelor's degree from Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts in 1998.

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Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk in the Soviet Union (now a part of Belarus), and immigrated to the United States in 1978 at the age of three. He lived in a studio apartment in Queens and later moved to Edison, New Jersey. He graduated from North Hunterdon High School and completed his bachelor's degree from Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts in 1998.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 17:20, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Removes information about areas dealing with his notability. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:34, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Requesting clean-up - Career section
Expalantion: Requesting more clean-up to remove promotional content pertaining to his companies in the career section from the current one to the one suggested below. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted.

Vaynerchuk's career spans startups, retail, marketing, and investing. He co-founded restaurant-reservation app, Resy, which was acquired by American Express.

Wine Library
After graduating from college in 1998, Vaynerchuk assumed day-to-day control of his father's Springfield, New Jersey store, Shopper's Discount Liquors. Gary renamed the store to Wine Library, launched sales online and in 2006 started Wine Library TV, a daily webcast covering wine.

Through e-commerce and pricing strategies, Vaynerchuk grew the business from $3 million a year to $60 million a year by 2003. In August 2011, Vaynerchuk said he would step away from the wine business to build VaynerMedia, a digital ad agency he co-founded with his brother in 2009.

VaynerX
Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a communications company that holds media properties, technology companies, and a social-media agency.

VaynerMedia
In 2009, Gary, along with his brother AJ Vaynerchuk, founded VaynerMedia, a social media–focused digital agency. The company provides social media and strategy services to Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Anheuser-Busch, Mondelez International and PepsiCo. In 2015, VaynerMedia was named one of Ad Age's A-List agencies. With 600 employees in 2016, VaynerMedia grossed $100 million in revenue. The company also partnered with Vimeo to connect brands and filmmakers for digital content.

Gallery Media Group
In 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that Vaynerchuk formed The Gallery, later named Gallery Media Group, a VaynerX subsidiary company that houses PureWow, following its acquisition by Vaynerchuk and RSE Ventures, male-oriented news outlet ONE37pm.com, and other media properties.

to:

Vaynerchuk's career spans startups, retail, marketing, and investing. He co-founded a restaurant-reservation app, Resy, which was later acquired by American Express.

Wine Library
After graduating from college in 1998, ate age 14, he joined his family's retail-wine business, Shopper's Discount Liquors. He renamed the store to Wine Library, and expanded services by launching sales online and starting Wine Library TV, a daily webcast covering wine, in 2006. According to media reports, he is known as a wine critic, who grew his wine business from $3 million a year to $60 million a year. In August 2011, he stepped away from the wine business to build VaynerMedia.

VaynerX
Vaynerchuk is the chairman of VaynerX, a communications company that holds media properties, technology companies, and a social-media agency.

VaynerMedia

In 2009, Gary, along with his brother AJ Vaynerchuk, founded VaynerMedia, a social media–focused digital agency. The company provides social media and strategy services to Fortune 500 companies such as General Electric, Anheuser-Busch, Mondelez International and PepsiCo. Under Vaynerchuk's leadership, VaynerMedia was named one of Ad Age's A-List agencies in 2015 and grossed $100 million in revenue in 2016. The company has also partnered with Vimeo to connect brands and filmmakers for digital content.

Gallery Media Group

In 2017, Vaynerchuk formed The Gallery, which was later named Gallery Media Group, after acquisition of media properties including PureWow and men news outlet ONE37pm.com.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 17:31, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Please work in smaller requests, and explain why you want the changes. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:37, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Requesting clean-up - Media section
Explanation: Requesting more clean-up to remove promotional content pertaining to his media ventures in the media section from the current one to the one proposed below. The images/pictures can be retained as is. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted.

Planet of the Apps
In February 2017, Apple and Propagate announced the launch of Planet of the Apps, a reality television series with a recurring cast that includes Vaynerchuk, will.i.am and Gwyneth Paltrow. Described as Shark Tank meets American Idol, in the show Vaynerchuk and team evaluate pitches from app developers vying for investment. The series cast joined Product Hunt for a tour to Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

DailyVee
DailyVee is a daily, video-documentary series on YouTube that chronicles Vaynerchuk's life as a businessman. Started in 2015, Vaynerchuk records live, interviewing others and broadcasting investor meetings and strategy sessions at VaynerMedia. In the series Vaynerchuk implements social media strategies, especially through Snapchat and Instagram, to demonstrate social-media marketing.

The #AskGaryVee Show
In 2014, Vaynerchuk launched The #AskGaryVee Show on YouTube with his personal content-production team. In the show, Vaynerchuk canvases questions from Twitter and Instagram and responds in a signature, extemporaneous manner. Show questions, most commonly on entrepreneurship, family and business topics, are pre-screened by the production team, but remain unseen by Vaynerchuk until each show's taping. The AskGaryVee Show inspired Vaynerchuk's fourth book, AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness.

Wine Library TV
Vaynerchuk hosted a video blog on YouTube called Wine Library TV (WLTV or The Thunder Show) from 2006 to 2011, featuring wine reviews, tastings, and wine advice. The show debuted in February 2006 and was produced daily at the Wine Library store in Springfield, New Jersey. At 1,000 episodes in 2011 Vaynerchuk retired the show and replaced it with a video podcast, The Daily Grape. In August 2011, Vaynerchuk announced on Daily Grape that he was retiring from wine video blogging.

Wine & Web
In 2010, Vaynerchuk launched Wine & Web on Sirius XM satellite radio. The show's programming paired new wine tastings in a "Wine of the Week" segment with coverage of gadgets, trends and startups in its "Web of the Week" segment.

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Planet of the Apps
In February 2017, Apple and Propagate launched Planet of the Apps, a reality television series evaluating pitches from app developers vying for investment. Vaynershuk was a mentor on the show along with will.i.am and Gwyneth Paltrow.

DailyVee
DailyVee is a daily, video-documentary YouTube series started by Vaynerchuk in 2015. He live records investor meetings and strategy sessions at VaynerMedia and also interviews other businessmen. He implements social media strategies, through Snapchat and Instagram, to demonstrate social-media marketing.

The #AskGaryVee Show
In 2014, Vaynerchuk launched The #AskGaryVee Show on YouTube. In the show, he answers questions related to entrepreneurship, family and business topics, asked on Twitter and Instagram. The show is inspired by his book, AskGaryVee: One Entrepreneur's Take on Leadership, Social Media, and Self-Awareness.

Wine Library TV
Vaynerchuk hosted a video blog on YouTube called Wine Library TV (WLTV or The Thunder Show) from his wine store in Springfield, New Jersey. The show debuted in February 2006 featuring wine reviews, tastings and wine advice. In 2011, he retired from the show and replaced it with a video podcast, The Daily Grape.

Wine & Web
In 2010, Vaynerchuk launched Wine & Web on Sirius XM satellite radio. The show's programming paired new wine tastings in a "Wine of the Week" segment with coverage of gadgets, trends and startups in its "Web of the Week" segment.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 17:33, 11 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Please make smaller requests, and remember that Wikipedia is not a venue for promotion. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:40, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Requesting clean-up - Reception section
Explanation: Requesting minor clean-up of the current Reception section to remove unneeded content and aligning it with WP:CCPOL as proposed below. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted.

Vaynerchuk has been labeled an "Internet persona," earning public speaking opportunities and a large social media following but also criticism that buckets him with hacks on social media. In 2015 Vaynerchuk was named to Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40. In 2017 according to Forbes, Vaynerchuk topped the list of most-authoritative opinion leaders in social networks in the world. In November 2019, Vaynerchuk appeared on Jimmy Fallon's “Tonight Show” to coach the host on wine drinking tips.

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According to media reports, Vaynerchuk has been an internet personality and public speaker. In 2015, he was named to Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40. In 2017, according to Forbes, he topped the list of most-authoritative opinion leaders in social networks in the world. In November 2019, he participated on the Jimmy Fallon's “Tonight Show” to discuss wine drinking tips.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 17:39, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * No explanation given for removal for sourced content. This looks like an attempt at whitewashing. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 18:28, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ❌The verbatim text to be removed/replaced has not been included with the request. Regards, Spintendo  13:34, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

Requesting removal of promotional content per tag - Lead paragraph
Explanation: Proposing edits again, in smaller requests (one section at a time), without removing key areas of notability. The lead paragraph can be changed from the current one to the one requested below. His birth name can be added in the infobox along with the reference for simplicity. Also, the translations seem superfluous. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted.

From:

Gary Vaynerchuk (born Gennady Vaynerchuk; November 14, 1975; Генадзь Вайнярчук, Геннадий Вайнерчук) is a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, New York Times best selling author, speaker, and Internet personality. First known as a wine critic who expanded his family's wine business, Vaynerchuk is best known for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company, VaynerX, and as CEO of VaynerX subsidiary, VaynerMedia.

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Gary Vaynerchuk (born Gennady Vaynerchuk on born November 14, 1975) is a Belarusian-American entrepreneur, author, public speaker, and internet personality. He is known as a wine critic and for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company, VaynerX, and as CEO of it's subsidiary, VaynerMedia.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 16:58, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I went to immediately remove "New York Times best selling author", only to find it was removed months ago.
 * Please work from current versions, and explain in detail justification for any changes. --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 17:16, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , re-iterating the explanation as provided earlier, remove the translations of his name, which seems superfluous, and removing the text '...who expanded his family's wine business' according to WP:LEAD, only summarizing his notability in the first paragraph. If all that looks fine to you then I guess the lead paragraph is fine with no advertisement. FamJoshua1 (talk) 19:08, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I have no idea what standards apply to translations of a name. Please look it up and let us know.
 * Expanding his family's wine business seems a part of his notability, and introduces his career. Am I missing something? --Hipal/Ronz (talk) 19:21, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * If you are fine with it, then we can move on to the next section. I would like to take it step by step. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FamJoshua1 (talk • contribs) 19:34, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Requesting removal of promotional content per tag - Early life section
Explanation: Requesting minor grammatical edits along with further clean-up, removal of '....with eight other family members. After living in Queens...', as it is redundant, removal of 'He operated a lemonade stand and earned thousands of dollars on weekends trading baseball cards', as it is trivial. All citations are thoroughly checked and vetted.

From:

Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk in the Soviet Union (today part of Belarus), and immigrated to the United States in 1978 at the age of three. He is of Jewish descent. Vaynerchuk lived in a studio apartment in Queens, New York, with eight other family members. After living in Queens, Vaynerchuk and his family moved to Edison, New Jersey where Vaynerchuk operated a lemonade stand and earned thousands of dollars on weekends trading baseball cards. At age 14, he joined his family's retail-wine business. After his family moved, he graduated from North Hunterdon High School. Vaynerchuk graduated with a bachelor's degree from Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts in 1998.

to:

Vaynerchuk was born in Babruysk in the Soviet Union (now a part of Belarus), and immigrated to the United States in 1978 at the age of three. He is of Jewish descent. He lived in a studio apartment in Queens and later moved to Edison, New Jersey. At age 14, he joined his family's retail-wine business. He graduated from North Hunterdon High School and completed his bachelor's degree from Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts in 1998.

FamJoshua1 (talk) 21:14, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Your edits have been added to the article. Don Spencer talk-to-me ⛅ 20:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

Hagiography
This whole page feels like a hagiography with almost no mention of any detractors or his scams. Can more of that be added? 2601:152:981:54B0:2431:5537:B9BD:BA7C (talk) 19:50, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * High-quality sources are required. --Hipal (talk) 20:30, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Uhh... they are widely available. We could cite a number of his own videos/talks.  Would we need a secondary source commenting on the toxicity of them? 2601:152:981:54B0:429:47F1:7BA0:BAF1 (talk) 23:35, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
 * If you cannot provide any, then we cannot make any progress here. They would need to meet WP:RS and the additional requirements of WP:BLPRS. Please avoid all WP:OR, which would almost certainly apply when using his own videos/talks. --Hipal (talk) 01:35, 19 January 2024 (UTC)