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The TV and Radio ad argument falls a little flat when you consider people have left radio for competitively priced streaming music that is ad-free and people ha
by scrps 10y ago
The TV and Radio ad argument falls a little flat when you consider people have left radio for competitively priced streaming music that is ad-free and people have left TV for competitively priced streaming movies and TV that are ad-free.
Newspapers have just struggled to find and adopt a similar model, I hope they find it. The common thread is that we live in an advertising saturated world and a lot of people are tired of it.
Drive down a street or highway... Ads, signage, billboards, Turn on a radio... Ads, Go online... Ads, Open a newspaper or magazine... Ads, Watch a movie... Product placements. I am waiting for them to print ads on the individual sheets of toilet paper on a roll.
Some advertising is fine but when it ruins landscapes, deafens you as you watch TV or ruins a perfectly good site layout whilst tracking and eavesdropping on you then something is wrong.
- clubm8 10y ago>The TV and Radio ad argument falls a little flat when you consider people have left radio for competitively priced streaming music that is ad-free and people have left TV for competitively priced streaming movies and TV that are ad-free. Not ad free - different types of ads. Services like Netflix have product placement. (Which troubles me a bit since while traditional ads were irritating, at least there was disclosure.)
- scrps 10y agoYeah, that is true with Netflix... It was a pre-coffee post so the gears weren't fully turning yet.