Aye, set yer sail for the open seas me laddy
YAAAAAAAAAAAR.
I never left the salty sea, matey. A harsh mistress she be, but true as the rising tide.
I’m (barely) old enough to remember when cable television was touted and sold as “ad free.”
I’m also old enough to remember when satellite radio was touted and sold as “as free.”
Never believe them. Enshittification is inevitable, and planned.
Strange, outside of the CBS logo before Paramount Plus things start on Amazon (I hate every noun in that sentence progressively more) I haven’t had an ad in almost a year (from that same subsection of that same platform). Apple put some ads up for other shows of theirs, but made them skippable.
Twitch is probably the worst for ads, I sometimes have to watch one.
As a child of Saturday morning cartoons, ads today aren’t 2% as bad as what we used to endure, and on demand shows (you can watch a series even if your missed the first episode, instead of waiting for the season recap, or entire season re run before the finale), and the ability to watch, and pause, damn near anything, makes the experience at least 50x better, so I’d say we’re about 2000% better off than I remember us being.
I wonder how much of this is due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes.
Blaming unions trying to get some job security and living wages, while executives get paid millions per year is not cool
Literally at the bottom of the article are links to: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/roku-ceo-anthony-wood-2024-pay-1236205274/ and https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/amc-networks-ceo-pay-2024-kristin-dolan-1236169861/
Who cares lol.
The workers needed to get paid more so the corporation sought additional revenue streams. Hello advertisements.
You thought the “job security and living wages” was going to come from nowhere? When to production costs of a good go up, producers will either seek additional revenue streams, or increase the price of that good to pass the extra cost down to the consumer.
Everybody’s like “pay the actors” until their streaming bill goes up by $5 or an ad pops up on their TV screen lol
You completely ignored the whole thing about executives getting paid millions per year.
Roku, Tubi, and Pluto are really blowing up.
That’s not a bad thing.
A gapping bloody hole has been blown straight through media. All those ad dollars that used to support writers, actors, and all the people behind the scenes has left and gone to google or meta.
I see a lot of younger people complaining about their job prospects, about not being able to begin their career - always stuck doing entry level service work. When you ask them what they want to be doing they tell you… Media! They want to help create or write about the art they love to consume!
Bringing the ads back is the first and most important step in revitalizing the media industry.
