"already have it" seems like a fairly simple, common, and oh so fustrating problems especially for services that already know your email. Right now the worst offender for me is IBKR for egigh I get ~10 ads per day on YouTube despite both being linked the the same IP/email/device/browser as he service.
Likewise with Amazon showing you an ad for a product you literally bought minutes ago as if you'd want to buy another before the first arrives or LinkedIn recruiters trying recruit you to your current role.
Specialty equipment like for photography/cycling or 3d printing is the worst. Buy a Sony camera or Peak design tripod and you'll get ads for the same thing for a year. Like accessories and complementary products I'd understand but come on. Just how many thousand dollar cameras do you expect me to buy per month/year?!
Spot on, I’ve noticed it too. It’s crazy. I can only imagine the XX% of ad spend that could be optimized if this problem was solved across the industry, and the millions of dollars that would be saved...from a basic query optimization? I guess it has to be a harder problem than that, otherwise it wouldn’t be an issue, but sheesh is it ridiculous from the outside looking in.
Like I understand the complexity in optimizing that query for Amazon and personalized product history, etc.
But YouTubeTV for Pete’s sake, is a static property of the network. It doesn’t change for anyone already watching YTV and therefore subscribed.
Just don’t put YTV ads on the YTV network. Simple as that. Someone legit went and added them.
There are also normal ads for third parties. So not a replacement. They just also run their own ads.
And no, it’s not an ad placeholder. Because they have that too. There is a scene that says “you’re watching YoutubeTV, your show will resume momentarily” while a yellow ad bar progresses.
They aren’t also analog ads. You can tell when YTV is playing back an ad recorded within the show, vs when they flip the stream from content to ad content because the UI changes.
Nope, from what I can tell, they definitely just show their own ads to their customers.
When I had Dish, I saw a lot of DirectTV ads. That makes sense. But I never saw Dish advertising Dish. Maybe I just never paid attention.
>This is meant to be a replacement for normal cable....which also shows ads. As far as I know there is NO live cable service that is ad-free.
HBO doesn't show commercials. It DOES use the time between two shows (starting on the hour or half hour) to preview other shows on the same network but I find these slightly less annoying that paid-for ads.
They show you ads for YouTube TV, literally while are you watching TV with your paid YouTube TV subscription.
How many ad dollars are just being flushed down the drain...