Comcast/NBC Ignores Lessons From The Cord Cutting Age, Buries Olympics Under An Ocean Of Annoying Advertising
"modern consumers are finding over-advertising and other legacy cable habits more annoying than ever. Something NBC should have already known as consumers slowly but surely either cut the cable cord or trim back on their viewing packages because the game has changed. And what did NBC do armed with this information? It doubled down on being annoying. The result was a 30+% decline in the 18-49 demographic"
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160808/04583435176/comcast-nbc-ignores-lessons-cord-cutting-age-buries-olympics-under-ocean-annoying-advertising.shtml
(thread title from comments)
OTOH, how is Comcast to pay for the rights?
ATM I'm getting Namecheap ads on pretty much any YouTube video I watch. Maybe TV could do some form of 'in-play' ads?
As an aside, the commentary has been so annoying a post made it to the front page of reddit telling users how to kill the commentary by simply unplugging the center channel on 5.1 audio.
>aside
kws: Phelps, gym, Olympics, and a few others generic sports terms pretty much wipe it out of my feeds, so the thread title was particularly relevant to me.