Strange, outside of the CBS logo before Paramount Plus things start on Amazon (I hate every noun in that sentence progressively more) I haven’t had an ad in almost a year (from that same subsection of that same platform). Apple put some ads up for other shows of theirs, but made them skippable.
Twitch is probably the worst for ads, I sometimes have to watch one.
As a child of Saturday morning cartoons, ads today aren’t 2% as bad as what we used to endure, and on demand shows (you can watch a series even if your missed the first episode, instead of waiting for the season recap, or entire season re run before the finale), and the ability to watch, and pause, damn near anything, makes the experience at least 50x better, so I’d say we’re about 2000% better off than I remember us being.
Apple put some ads up for other shows of theirs, but made them skippable
TBH I don’t get why we call those ads. Back in the day of VHS/DVD, we called those previews. That’s still how I think of them, and imo there’s a difference between that an an advertisement, which would be for a car, investment app, brand of tampons, etc that have nothing to do with the streaming platform’s content they have to offer.
Disney used to run ads for their other shows on Disney channel, no non-Disney things, but they were still interspersed, that was a child formed in my brain what an ad was to be “anything that delays the content is an ad”. Pedantically FBI warnings and producer logos are ads.
Advertisements are something to make you buy something you wouldn’t otherwise think of buying. They come in the form of billboards, banners on websites, commercials on TV during commercial break.
Okay yeah a preview for content that’s on the same platform can be like an ad, or a type of ad, but I’ve already paid for the streamijg service so it’s not really trying to get me to spend extra money on something else so I guess that’s why I think of them seperately from ads.
As for FBI warnings and producer logos (besides displaying the logo of whomever made the thing you’re already watching), what are they advertising?
Strange, outside of the CBS logo before Paramount Plus things start on Amazon (I hate every noun in that sentence progressively more) I haven’t had an ad in almost a year (from that same subsection of that same platform). Apple put some ads up for other shows of theirs, but made them skippable.
Twitch is probably the worst for ads, I sometimes have to watch one.
As a child of Saturday morning cartoons, ads today aren’t 2% as bad as what we used to endure, and on demand shows (you can watch a series even if your missed the first episode, instead of waiting for the season recap, or entire season re run before the finale), and the ability to watch, and pause, damn near anything, makes the experience at least 50x better, so I’d say we’re about 2000% better off than I remember us being.
TBH I don’t get why we call those ads. Back in the day of VHS/DVD, we called those previews. That’s still how I think of them, and imo there’s a difference between that an an advertisement, which would be for a car, investment app, brand of tampons, etc that have nothing to do with the streaming platform’s content they have to offer.
Why do we lump the two things together?
Disney used to run ads for their other shows on Disney channel, no non-Disney things, but they were still interspersed, that was a child formed in my brain what an ad was to be “anything that delays the content is an ad”. Pedantically FBI warnings and producer logos are ads.
Yeah but ad is short for advertisement.
Advertisements are something to make you buy something you wouldn’t otherwise think of buying. They come in the form of billboards, banners on websites, commercials on TV during commercial break.
Okay yeah a preview for content that’s on the same platform can be like an ad, or a type of ad, but I’ve already paid for the streamijg service so it’s not really trying to get me to spend extra money on something else so I guess that’s why I think of them seperately from ads.
As for FBI warnings and producer logos (besides displaying the logo of whomever made the thing you’re already watching), what are they advertising?