Comment on Streaming Is Now Just As Crowded With Ads As Old School TV
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 4 weeks agoApple put some ads up for other shows of theirs, but made them skippable
TBH I don’t get why we call those ads. Back in the day of VHS/DVD, we called those previews. That’s still how I think of them, and imo there’s a difference between that an an advertisement, which would be for a car, investment app, brand of tampons, etc that have nothing to do with the streaming platform’s content they have to offer.
Why do we lump the two things together?
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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.
CoolMatt@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Yeah bit ad is short for advertisement.
Advertisements have always been something to make you buy something you wouldn’t otherwise think of buying. 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.
As for FBI warnings and producer logos (besides displaying the logo of whomever made the thing you’re already watching), what are they advertising?