Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for September 16, 2022

So, not a “prime” channel I guess Arlo wasn’t ready for some football Thursday night.

What’s the total program to commercial time for every thirty minutes? Non streaming channels have it down to about 16 minutes of actual programing.

The more things change the more they revert to the previous inanity.

It’s short for now but YouTube has been adding 8 commercial in there videos

So no different than over the air TV except that you have to pay for internet service. Bills have to be paid I guess.

With my internet speed I don’t even attempt to do the streaming. I fear watching a 1 hr program for at least 2 hrs because of buffering.

I stream the local morning news and they have the same commercials every day. The thing is they are really really bad. They make regular ads look like Oscar winning productions.

But every once in a while, they sneak in a commercial longer than the video you want to watch.

Commercials are fine if they make the product free. I remember when sports were on free TV, including local teams.

I also remember when they justified charging you for cable TV by saying there were no commercials. But once everybody got it, they added commercials and STILL charged you.

The C in CNN stands for “commercial”.

It boggles the mind why the powers that be believe that we’re more likely to pay attention to the same dern thing fifty times an hour… At least that’s how it seems on MLB Network!

I am glad I don’t know what Arlo is talking about. Quit watching TeeVee about 8 years ago.

mute button

Dinosaur (the animated show in the 80s and 90s) A Box Full of Puppies.

The commercial breaks on streamed TV that are customized based on search history or age demographics are horrible. Same commercial every break — some have run literally hundreds of time as I work with the programs on in the background. Drives me batty. Mute button helps. (What advertisers haven’t realized is that no power on earth will make me use their products after being hounded ad nauseum.)

Which also guarantees that the annoying product being advertised will NEVER be bought by rational people but maybe their market target are irrational people….

I suspect most people feel the way I do: unpersuasive ads unpersuade me from considering their product. If the ads are stupid I assume the product is just as stupid. Ads that interrupt content in random places are always stupid.

Arlo is easily convinced in his own mind regarding progress?

The repetition of the product being presented as a desirable thing causes the name of the product to stick in your mind associated with a positive attitude toward it. When you then go to buy insurance months later, you remember the name and no one has mentioned it to you in negative context, so you are more likely to consider it then you are a company that you have never heard of. This is the rationale behind the commercials, but continuous repetition, such as is done on the “free” streaming channels probably ( seems to me) gives the product a negative context all by itself.

I like the anti depression pills that have a side effect that makes you twitch because the next commercial has a pill that stops the twitching from taking antidepressant pills.

40 years ago: Broadcast has too many ads, change to cable.10 years ago: I have to pay to get ads, and there are a lot of them. Change to streaming. I have to get an expensive ISP and pay, but at least there are no ads.Now: I have to pay for an ISP and a streaming service to watch badly placed ads?

Thank goodness for the mute button.

My favorite channel is TUBI…

if the ads are too annoying, pay for the ad free version. I do

Unfortunately, there are good movies and TV shows that the subscription streamers decline to add to their inventory, so the only source for them are an ad-supported services like Tubi, Roku, Pluto, etc. or pay $3.99/$4.99/$5.99 per movie (or $1.99/TV episode) to rent on Amazon. And speaking of Amazon, they have been placing/moving more TV shows to their ad-supported branch (Freevee) instead of offering them on Prime. Either Amazon is penny-pinching or the distribution rights holders are a bit greedy, or both.

I subscribe to MLB so I can watch baseball. They have one ad about a pregnant woman having bought an electric car that they show on every break. For a typical game they’ll show it 30 to 40 times. It drives me nuts.

No problem. When they come on, mute the sound and look at your phone till they’re gone.