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Advertising has invaded nearly every waking hour of our lives. I'm glad there are services like Netflix that can give us some respite.
by ChrisLTD 9y ago
Advertising has invaded nearly every waking hour of our lives. I'm glad there are services like Netflix that can give us some respite.
- marnett 9y agothey have product placement out the wazoo, don't think otherwise.
- thewarrior 9y agoExamples ?
- ceejayoz 9y agoWe've cut the cord, and it's really remarkable when visiting relatives just how frustrating TV ads are to encounter now.
- trentnix 9y agoAnd that constant bombardment has reduced the effectiveness of advertising as well. So it makes sense that advertising dollars would be distributed differently than they once were.
- Kenji 9y agoThat's weird. There's almost no advertising at all in my life. It all depends on how you structure you life.
- paulcole 9y agoYou do know there's tons of advertising by way of product placement in pretty much every modern show/movie.
- jerf 9y agoI don't find myself terribly upset when someone is just ambiently using a product. It's almost more jarring when something set in the current time & place has someone is using a "Banana" computer, with a bite out of the banana, or something like that. Of course, if the actors actually take a moment to start extolling the virtues of whatever that's a different story.
- munk-a 9y agoI agree... mostly... I actually found having the silly little "Skype" logo floating on video calls in shows to be super disruptive, while the symbol on the computer... If it's an apple or dell's square or just blank, then I'll just block it out.
- thaumaturgy 9y agoNetflix just has some horrifyingly bad and not-at-all-subtle product placement instead (example: http://www.adnews.com.au/netflix-slammed-for-product-placement http://www.adnews.com.au/netflix-slammed-for-product-placeme...). And smoking. Lots of smoking. I liked Netflix insofar as they challenged cable networks and studios, but ultimately it was just more TV and I finally recently gave that up too, and it's been an improvement overall.