• lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1011·
    8 months ago

    This seems to follow a progression

    • No ads
    • Non-intrusive ads
    • Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them go away
    • Intrusive ads, but you can pay to make them less intrusive
    • Intrusive ads and you have to pay just to see the content
    • Content becomes ads
    • Ads pretend to be content (see Dr. Pepper’s “Fansville”)
    • Award categories for ads are featured in major award ceremonies
    • Award ceremonies just for ads go mainstream

    Actually not sure what’s real vs hypothetical at this point.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      8 months ago

      We’ve been through this before. FFS, the US has a whole event whose entire point for like 99% of the audience is to see which ads will be shown during the half time break. Cable still has 24h advertisement channels.

    • teft@startrek.websiteEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      This is how you end up with that scene in Demolition Man where they’re singing commercials.

    • bratosch@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      (see Dr. Pepper’s “Fansville”)

      Nice try, Dr. Pepper. If that is even your real name!

    • BURN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      8 months ago

      I’m gonna be real, I prefer fansville style ads over traditional TV commercials.