• Donjuanme@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    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.

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      4 days ago

      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?