@andycarolan shows that it is viable, is all I'm saying. I'd rather like my magazines without ads, but they don't bother me. Not half as much as web ads or ads on social media, or commercial breaks rudely interrupting the flow of a story on a tv show.
@toon I don't find magazine adverts as annoying because they don't interrupt the flow of what I've paid for. If I see a full page advert in a magazine that interests me, I will look at it.
Forced mid roll adverts in a movie or series breaks the experience for me.
The analogy to that would be if you couldn't turn the page away from that full page ad in that magazine for 20 seconds 🤣
@andycarolan indeed. I think the TV show / movie equivalent would be product placement. It can be annoying if it's really obvious, but same goes for magazines that are overloaded with low quality ads.
@toon Agreed I don't mind product placement quite as much. As you said, if it's not very obvious. I was watching an Apple series, and noticed that everyone had an iPhone... except for the 'baddies' who all appeared to be using Android 😅
@mihobu The thing is with streaming, we moved away from the ad supported model... and consumers were happy. Now they are trying to move back to that model.
@alexandra@andycarolan This is also something I never understood from childhood; friends had Sky TV, which you had to pay a subscription for - but it /still/ showed adverts. I never understood why anyone accepted that.
@hl I thought we had moved on from that with subscription streaming services. Clearly, those large companies haven't bled us quite dry enough yet. @alexandra
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