Apparently you will be able to skip them. ... better if we will be able to turn off the “feature”
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Netflix Tests Video Promos Between TV Show Episodes
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Apparently you will be able to skip them. ... better if we will be able to turn off the “feature”
Just like CNN, Fox, CBS, Last Man Standing, News broadcasts everywhere, etc., do - promote their own channels! Also known as advertising their own product instead of a toothpaste! When there not enough ads, they promote their own traffic or weather forecast! Even PBS does this, while screening Masterpiece theater - not in-between episodes, but distracting superimposed clips during the show.
Still a commercial. Still no to it. Just like the forced ads between YouTube clips.
Netflix starts doing this, it is gone.
In the Matrix, we prefer to call them promos, so we don’t alarm people, and more will fall in line like they should.
Wrong. They are not paid advertisements.
These are simply in-house promos to promoted other things on the service.
This is not a new concept and it's far from being a "commercial".
You know those things on the radio that say "Listen this weekend for your chance to win tickets to a show!" That is a PROMOTIONAL piece of audio.
Until they start showing Nike and Sony ads in between shows, quit b!tchin
I don't care if CBS or Netflix gets paid for promoting their upcoming weather/traffic alert or new programming, respectively - these are still advertisements cutting into programming time (or bandwidth). So, unpaid advertising already exists, and I don't want it in Netflix, Prime, etc. A newscast currently is just 15-18 minutes in a 30-minute segment including these "unpaid" ads.
ISPs constantly advertise about themselves when they have NOT sold enough airtime - aka., fillers.
So, no to ANY kind of advertisements.
How do I tell Netflix to **** off with this? Asking for a friend.
I resent advertising in any platform that I pay for. Netflix has (possibly past tense) been one of the few media sources that did not inject ads.
Nothing if free, so when I listen to the radio or watch OTA television I accept that those ads provide the content. Fair and reasonable. Beyond that we (society) don't need to be marketed to in every interaction. One reason I get my banking / credit card / bills / etc. in electronic form rather than the mail is because I detest those ads.
At some point it's got to stop. If not, we (again, society) will be so overburdened by advertisements that they will become meaningless... if we're not already there.
They have a "request a show" link in the manage your account page. I guess we can find a feedback link there.
THEY AREN'T ADVERTISEMENTS. Why is this so hard? They are PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS for THEIR OWN CONTENT. NO ONE IS GETTING PAID.
Yea but I didn’t sign up and pay to be interrupted when I binge watch. I know where to look for new shows. It’s under eh new shows. **** that was easy wasn’t it.
Playing the National Anthem before a game is an advertisement. Which part of paid or not, if it is not part of the program and is promoting anything including the current show, it is an advertisement do you not comprehend?
Oh come on, guys, haven't you been missing commerc... hahaha, sorry, I tried but I couldn't keep a straight face through the whole sentence.
IMHO Netflix spoiled users with their business model of binge watching. I personally don’t mind promo videos. It is how I’ve discovered new shows. Hell, it helped me discover shows I didn’t even know were still on TV.
Stupid thing is, they already shove all their self-produced (and second-rate, in my opinion) content in our faces all the bloody time.
While it's true there are Netflix Fanbois who think anything the company does is golden (look at the defenders of these ads on this thread, for instance), it seems apparent that many of their subscribers aren't watching the self-produced stuff. So, of course, Netflix's solution is to just shove it even further into our faces.
In a couple years we'll probably be forced to watch full episodes of a Netflix-produced show in between episodes of non-Netflixed-produced shows... if they still offer any non-self-produced content at that point.
While it's true there are Netflix Fanbois who think anything the company does is golden (look at the defenders of these ads on this thread, for instance), it seems apparent that many of their subscribers aren't watching the self-produced stuff. So, of course, Netflix's solution is to just shove it even further into our faces.
In a couple years we'll probably be forced to watch full episodes of a Netflix-produced show in between episodes of non-Netflixed-produced shows... if they still offer any non-self-produced content at that point.
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All of 30 seconds while the credits roll? Again, unpaid promotional videos are just that, PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS. They aren't commercials. They aren't PAID ADVERTISEMENTS.
I really don't understand what the problem here is.
This service is getting worse and worse. I am sick of there push for there stupid original programming I have no interest in. To have to deal with trailers for "Stupid Things" (yes I hate that show stop bugging me to watch it) or "Lost in Space" between episodes of Heartland is going to far. Whats next trailers during episodes and crawlers on the bottom on the screen for some stupid Adam Sander original garbage movie.
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So, you concede that they are " ... " something ADVERTISEMENTS!
Yes, you will NEVER understand, by your own admission.
I will give up Netflix so fast if they think I’ll take this bs.
I don't get Netflix. As a paid, ad-free subscription service, they have already made their money off me. The only thing they need to do is keep me as a customer. There are no upsells or cross-sells to be made. Technically, they do slightly better if I stay a subscriber and don't watch anything, since there's less server load, but in any case as long as I'm a happy continuing customer they shouldn't care what, why, or how much I watch.
So what's with being insulting and annoying about pushing your wares on people who already bought them? First they try to gamify their service to goad children into watching even more TV, and now they're going to advertise at me for a service I already subscribe to.
But then, I guess that's why I'm an ad-free Hulu subscriber. I just couldn't stand the Netflix endless-hunt interface, annoying auto-play trailers, and I can add pointless advertising to that as well. Gave it another try recently, and my wife complained constantly about how annoying it was to browse or find anything.
So what's with being insulting and annoying about pushing your wares on people who already bought them? First they try to gamify their service to goad children into watching even more TV, and now they're going to advertise at me for a service I already subscribe to.
But then, I guess that's why I'm an ad-free Hulu subscriber. I just couldn't stand the Netflix endless-hunt interface, annoying auto-play trailers, and I can add pointless advertising to that as well. Gave it another try recently, and my wife complained constantly about how annoying it was to browse or find anything.
Pretty sure if you're in the "small percentage of customers" in the test, they provide an avenue for feedback. If you just want complain, their Twitter and Facebook are usually monitored.
Nope. That isn't what I said.
I did NOT say they are ADVERTISEMENTS.
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what people said about cable. No they wont! We pay for cable we don’t pay the mainstream.
Yeah right... they'll just charge more to "opt out." Then we'll all reminisce about when Netflix streaming was ad free and cost less than $10.