I open up bbc.com and I am immediately shown several ads. I have a banner ad for Geico shown across the top of the page. BBC is made up of several entities and

I open up bbc.com and I am immediately shown several ads. I have a banner ad for Geico shown across the top of the page. BBC is made up of several entities and only some of them are publicly funded. Other parts, such as the BBC world news and several of the BBC’s online sites, are indeed for-profit companies that run ads [1]: > Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, BBC World News is owned and operated by BBC Global News Ltd., part of the BBC's commercial group of companies, and is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, and not by the United Kingdom television licence. And even the ones that are publicly funded still show ads to visitors from outside the UK [2]: >We've introduced advertising to visitors outside of the UK because the new revenue created will allow us to further improve our journalism, our programmes and our website in the years ahead. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_News 2: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/faq/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc.com/faq/