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The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It

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Re: The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It

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Post by port11 »

halJordan wrote: post #14
RedCardRef wrote: post #6

You guys have no idea how bad things can get. As an average IPL game of T20 cricket viewer can tell you. Basically every over consists of 6 balls bowled, times 40(each team gets 20 overs) And ads are sold on each ball, so 240 ad slots for sale, these are overlay ads, so basically the feed gets reduced to 70% of the screen and you see an ad for the remaning 30% typically for 5 secs. On top of this after each over(6 ba…

Ive held a long belief that sports fans are a main demographic that has allowed enshittification of tv to happen. Without you guys eating this up and asking for more where would we be?

We’d have, say, 20 or 30 seasons of shows that are well past their prime, because the ad breaks are really profitable. Grey’s Anatomy and The Simpsons come to mind.

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RedCardRef wrote: post #6

You guys have no idea how bad things can get. As an average IPL game of T20 cricket viewer can tell you. Basically every over consists of 6 balls bowled, times 40(each team gets 20 overs) And ads are sold on each ball, so 240 ad slots for sale, these are overlay ads, so basically the feed gets reduced to 70% of the screen and you see an ad for the remaning 30% typically for 5 secs. On top of this after each over(6 ba…

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Re: The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It

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Post by BoiledCabbage »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #23
GCUMstlyHarmls wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, I have no idea how accurate it is, NFL is not in my country, but google says there is about 11-16 minutes of actual play?? Commercials, 45 – 60 mins "Standing Around" & Stoppages, 65 – 75 mins The Halftime Show, 25 – 30 mins Replays & Commentary, 15 – 20 mins Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 11 – 16 mins versus what it says about AFL, Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 8…

The stat you read is flat out inaccurate. There are 60 minutes where the clock is running, and the vast majority of that is with the ball live and in play. I would say something like 45+ minutes out of the 60. Also, in fairness I've been to a couple of NFL games, and the commercial breaks tend to happen when the game clock is paused by the flow of the game anyway (team calls timeout, referees are reviewing a play, an…

> The stat you read is flat out inaccurate. There are 60 minutes where the clock is running, and the vast majority of that is with the ball live and in play.

You are completely wrong. I know that's what your intuition feels like from watching games, but if you actually get a stopwatch out and clock it, you'll see it's much closer to op than what you posted. Very close in fact.

If you don't believe it, find a actual game and time it. I did this on a game.

For example from the 8min mark to the 2min warning (6 mins of clock time) there were only 2m15s of action. Only 37.5% of the clock time was action. And that was an extremely conservative time. It was the 4th quarter, had multiple scoring plays, and multiple timeouts - essentially everything possible to do to stop the clock and still it maxed out at Football is a tiny amount of "action time" as compared to "clock time".

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Post by happymellon »

GCUMstlyHarmls wrote: post #18
canyp wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have always joked the Super Bowl was a long commercial with football breaks in between. Guess they're going for soccer this time too.

Wow, I have no idea how accurate it is, NFL is not in my country, but google says there is about 11-16 minutes of actual play?? Commercials, 45 – 60 mins "Standing Around" & Stoppages, 65 – 75 mins The Halftime Show, 25 – 30 mins Replays & Commentary, 15 – 20 mins Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 11 – 16 mins versus what it says about AFL, Actual Football Action - The ball is live and in play, 8…

Oh boy, I was taken to see an NFL American Football game live.

The amount of "dead time" was so vast it must have taken over 3/4s of the game.

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Post by desilva78_ »

halJordan wrote: post #14
RedCardRef wrote: post #6

You guys have no idea how bad things can get. As an average IPL game of T20 cricket viewer can tell you. Basically every over consists of 6 balls bowled, times 40(each team gets 20 overs) And ads are sold on each ball, so 240 ad slots for sale, these are overlay ads, so basically the feed gets reduced to 70% of the screen and you see an ad for the remaning 30% typically for 5 secs. On top of this after each over(6 ba…

Ive held a long belief that sports fans are a main demographic that has allowed enshittification of tv to happen. Without you guys eating this up and asking for more where would we be?

sports fans like me are just so loyal. we're perfectly exploitable haha
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