PeppyMarshmallow

A speacial place in hell for Hotstar

Showing 3 ads every 10 mins to users who have paid for subscriptions is silly and stupid. They are running out of ideas and happy to see Hotstar content moving to JioCinemas. Put an end to this nonsense

13mo ago

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ZoomyMuffin

Stealth13mo

I often wonder...

Are Ads that impactful? Like would a years worth of advertising that Hotstar shows me

make me buy stuff
which makes enough gross margin
20% or whatever X% of that is the %marketing that they spare for Hotstar alone

would be around 1500Rs, the annual Hotstar fee?

GoofyCupcake

Microsoft13mo

I intentionally avoid using products/services shown in these annoying ads.

Except spinny. Don't mind seeing Sachin talking about cars.

FluffyCupcake

Amazon13mo

Think from other lens, why ads are such a profitable business?

SillyMochi

Stealth13mo

Even food tracking screens in food delivery apps are doing Nano ads. 🤦‍♂️

PerkyNoodle

Gojek13mo

Sorry to say, Jiocinema also shows unskippable ads for premium users 😆. I paid 999 for jio cinema premium subscription to watch HBO content. Every episode in a TV show is rigged with a 1 min unskippable ad. 🤷

DancingTaco

Stealth13mo

They have gone crazy with the days. Many a times I get same ad, played 4 to 6 times in each episode. It become so irritating that I let go of my subscription money and don't watch JC all together.

Bad philosophy I feel, which may back fire in long run. I may as well watch TV, at least there is some variety in ads.

GroovyBoba

X (formerly Twitter)13mo

Soon youtube will also show like 1 ad to premium members and a million to free users now that they have banned ad blocker

JumpyWalrus

Stealth13mo

I would stop using YouTube then.

To YouTube -Increase the premium membership price , don't shove ads in our faces.

SillyMochi

Stealth13mo

Any other hacks for YouTube Ad blockers?

CosmicLlama

Stealth13mo

This is what happens when ideas are copied. Netflix which was the original OTT idea. They wanted thier idea to work so they focused on content. These cheap copies think that India is a billion people market and can sell any shit. Without good content they rely of advt to sell their products. Am scared for the day reliance becomes the major market player in all these. Then there will be an advt every 5 mins.