• shmanio@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Subscribers can expect to see an average of 4 minutes of ads an hour at around 15 to 30 seconds each

    Isn’t this a lot? I can’t imagine watching a movie and being interrupted every 5 minutes by an ad.

    Do they clump them together and play 8 minutes of ads between the two halves of a two hour movie?

    • johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Back in the day sitcoms are 21minutes so around 8-9 minutes if ads in half an hour. 4 minutes is probably tolerable to some. But this is still a paid tier of Netflix right?

  • Carterbuzz@lemm.ee
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    I have Peacock and Paramount for certain sports and they do this too. I Don’t mind it on Peacock, but the way Paramount does it is absolutely terrible and I’ll be canceling my subscription once my yearly special rate expires. Peacock will generally show about 3 minutes of ads then let you watch a whole movie. Paramount seems completely random. Sometimes you’ll have 45 seconds of ads, then you might have 3 minutes of ads less than 5 minutes later. They’ll regularly have 6+ mins of ads in 30 mins.

  • This will become the new norm, but I’m not too mad; this is likely part of these companies preparing to accommodate the writers and actors to end the strike, the ad revenue will be used to pay residuals.