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Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

It's guaranteed to be worse: TV episodes are completely structured around whether the creators expect ads, and where in the runtime the ad will be (so they can resolve or tease a plot point before them).

The addition of ads, or having more ad breaks than the original transmitter of a show had, will break the structure.

And then of course there's the 'Spotify question': are these ads genuinely supporting a subscription, or are they there to annoy you into paying for one by disrupting the flow of an episode as much as possible?