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Originally Posted by Chris
The tulips of our age.
More interesting are the realisations that ad-supported tiers are likely to become commonplace (we were assured some years ago by a certain contributor here that this would never happen) and that dropping entire seasons of a show at once isn’t good for subscriber retention, implying a move towards quasi-scheduling, one episode per week. Disney and Amazon have embraced this; Netflix is clearly dipping its toe in the water too.
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I said Netflix would not support ads because at the time, the CEO was vehemently opposed to them.
I thought streamers would not include advertisements because that would deter people who wished to avoid them from subscribing. However, we did not discuss tiering at the time, which does make sense, as does a free option with ads.