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Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by makecheck »

People applaud the lack of commercials because of the advertising industry’s self-inflicted wound of making obnoxious ads.

Ads didn’t have to try so hard to be WAY LOUDER THAN THE SHOW. They didn’t have to be trying to sell obviously-terrible things (“Get StupidDrugName! Side effects may include: death”). They didn’t have to subject you to 12 identical copies of the same commercial in one broadcast. They didn’t have to greedily demand an increasing share, to the point of significantly reducing the length of a show. And that’s just TV...web ads have lots of avoidable crap too.

They got greedy, they made ads suck, now people have no use for them.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by legitster »

mehrdadn wrote: post #170
legitster wrote: post #144

In a related note, I have come to realize the different levels of quality in children's television: - Public television shows (PBS) stuff is so lovingly created and charming. You can really tell they had experts and creatives work side by side to craft positive stories. Even if it's not particularly exciting. - Super-smart and creative shows (like the first couple seasons of Spongebob, or Gravity Falls). Great shows…

> - Public television shows (PBS) stuff is so lovingly created and charming. You can really tell they had experts and creatives work side by side to craft positive stories. Even if it's not particularly exciting. > - Colorful garbage. It's a lights and noise show, with huge focus on licensing. Cartoons of my era are particularly susceptible to this (Dragonball Z, Yu Gi Oh, Transformers, etc). What PBS shows are you i…

Our kid has watched Thomas, Arthur, The new Fred Rogers Company shows, etc.

Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner would squarely go into the "super-smart and creative shows". All of Chuck Jones' work really is supremely well made and exists for its own merit (as opposed to an educational one).

I lump in Spongebob because they at least picked a unique topic, had unique characters, and had some very unique jokes and comedic structures. At least in the beginning.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by jeromegv »

antepodius wrote: post #160
mguerville wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just cancelled mine and let me tell you, the added 10 to 30 seconds of ads before the video starts are already bugging me a lot.

Is there any particular reason you're not using an adblocker?

If you watch lots of Youtube with the iPad/iPhone apps, there wouldn't be any adblocker for that.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by safgasCVS »

Hold up. Are we saying the average kid is watching over an hour of commercials per day. If that stat is true (which would be around 4 hours of tv per day give or take) the solution is not Netflix but pumping the brakes on tv. That’s an insane amount of tv

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by jon-wood »

mrguyorama wrote: post #101
swombat wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like the TV version of what happened to most news sites, with ads everywhere.

My understanding is that, at least in the UK, advertising on television is way way way better, as in, a few minutes an hour of much more gentle advertisements.

A typical show on a commercial channel here will have three ad breaks in a one hour slot, of about five minutes each, and then there’ll be a longer ad break between programs. It drives me mad now I’m used to video on demand, but not nearly as much as US TV would.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by mehrdadn »

legitster wrote: post #182
mehrdadn wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> - Public television shows (PBS) stuff is so lovingly created and charming. You can really tell they had experts and creatives work side by side to craft positive stories. Even if it's not particularly exciting. > - Colorful garbage. It's a lights and noise show, with huge focus on licensing. Cartoons of my era are particularly susceptible to this (Dragonball Z, Yu Gi Oh, Transformers, etc). What PBS shows are you i…

Our kid has watched Thomas, Arthur, The new Fred Rogers Company shows, etc. Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner would squarely go into the "super-smart and creative shows". All of Chuck Jones' work really is supremely well made and exists for its own merit (as opposed to an educational one). I lump in Spongebob because they at least picked a unique topic, had unique characters, and had some very unique jokes and comedic struc…

Oh I see. Man, Arthur was soooo cheesy! I cringed whenever I saw it. Don't know the others unfortunately haha.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by michaelchisari »

switchbak wrote: post #100
anoncow wrote: post #65

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After subscribing to YouTube Premium, I had a similar revelation. Now if only we could have a google ad-free subscription which would turn off all google search and display network ads, our lives would be so much better! What if we could have cities outlaw advertising on billboards and instead collect a small tax to make up for the lost revenue, how much would our quality of life increase? That makes me wonder, if we…

This reminded me of Elysium: but instead of the rich being the only ones able to receive quality health care, here they are the only ones able to afford a reprieve from these mind numbing ads. I would love to be able to eliminate all ads in my life. At the same time, doesn't this feel a little like the advertisers are extorting us for some $$? Lest they jam more ads down your throat.

Someone has to pay for these services. Either we pay for them or advertisers do.

Re: Netflix Saves Kids from Up to 400 Hours of Commercials a Year

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Post by pastor_elm »

jolux wrote: post #104
pastor_elm wrote: post #55

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were the ads really all that bad though? I don't remember asking for much more than video games, board games, hungry hungry hippos, McDonalds, Sunny D, etc. Kids today get crazy ads on Instagram and are asking for Supreme shirts, Yeezus shoes, Kylie Jenner makeup kits.

How are those ads worse? This feels completely arbitrary.

they are explicit ads for fun things, not some ambiguous influencer ad that makes your kid feel bad about themselves.
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