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I hate commercials. There I said it. Nothing new, but I feel better. For one thing I don’t believe anything that’s said in most commercials, I think they waste my time and generally treat me, the viewer, like I’m an idiot. The DVR/PVR was one of the greatest inventions ever IMHO. Watching commercials today is basically optional on TV. I don’t have to put up with giant ‘perceived’ changes in volume and I can focus on the shows I like. My commercial auto-skip is truly a great thing! However… I’ve recently noticed a surge of online videos that are either interrupted by commercials, or start off with a commercial. I understand the need to make money, but seeing the same commercial over and over and over again before each video I want to see is really irritating. I do like how commercials have countdowns so I know when the show will be back. I’m much more likely to stay and watch the commercial if I know it’ll only be 30 seconds. Any more than that and I’m switching to another tab to check my email or something. I have a few suggestions to all these websites that are placing commercials into web video. Get a variety of commercials if you can. Track how many commercials a person sees over a given 5 or 10 minute span. If I watch a 30 second video, then switch to another video don’t immediately show me another 30 second commercial. I’ll leave, I’ll go somewhere else, or I’ll just plan stop watching and do something else. This is probably already tracked in some form, it just doesn’t stop another commercial from playing. OK, end of my rant, thanks for reading. Be sure to check out my live Turkey video..and see the same commercial..over and over and over and over…. lol
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