Netflix axes its $10 ‘Basic’ plan in the US and UK

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• shmanio@lemmy.world ⁨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?

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  • moobythegoldensock@geddit.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cable tv used to do 42 minute shows with 18 minutes of ads. It probably still does, but it used to, too.

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  • Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s probably 1 or 2 minutes of ads every 20 minutes.

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• realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • brcl@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @realcaseyrollins I suppose that wouldn’t be the worst way to spend the increased profit.

    @yamfarmer

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  • brcl@artemis.camp ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    @realcaseyrollins I suppose that wouldn’t be the worst way to spend the increased profit.

    @yamfarmer

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• Carterbuzz@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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