Crime Netflix Officially Adding Commercials

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It's the end of an era for Netflix. While the service has long been praised for its total lack of ads and commercials, Netflix is reversing its course on the matter. On Tuesday, Deadline reported that Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings said that ads will soon be incorporated into the service.


Hastings' comments come shortly after Chief Product Officer Greg Peters acknowledged that there would be differences in pricing for subscriptions in different territories. Both Hastings and Peters discussed the current state of Netflix, and its future, during the company's first-quarter earnings call, which was posted to YouTube on Tuesday. During the interview, the CEO noted that they will begin to implement advertising on Netflix in the "next year or two."

"One way to increase the price spread is advertising on low-end plans and to have lower prices with advertising," Hastings said. "Those who have followed Netflix know that I've been against the complexity of advertising and a big fan of the simplicity of subscription." Even though he has been against the incorporation of advertising in the past, he acknowledged that this would be a necessary step for the streaming platform. He also said that this would be a positive for Netflix subscribers, as it will give them "consumer choice" and the ability to choose a cheaper subscription, albeit one with advertisements.

"But as much as I'm a fan of that, I'm a bigger fan of consumer choice," he continued. "Allowing consumers who would like to have a lower price and are advertising-tolerant get what they want makes a lot of sense. So, that's something we're looking at now, we're trying to figure out over the next year or two. Think of us as quite open to offering an even lower." Hastings was asked whether Netflix would be testing out advertisement-laced subscriptions options before they roll it out to the masses. But, he stated, "I don't think we have a lot of doubt that it works," he said. "I'm sure we'll just get in and figure it out as opposed to testing it and maybe get in or not. … I think we'll really get in."


It's unclear when exactly Netflix will implement this change. However, as Hastings stated, it could come as soon as 2023 or 2024. Netflix would be following suit with other streaming services, such as Peacock and Disney+, that allow users to choose whether they would like to pay more in order to have an ad-free experience. The Netflix CEO did stress that there would still be an ad-free option if subscribers wish to utilize it.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

Hm. Creative suicide note.

 

[Mr. Bung]

Yeah, that'll get your subscription ratings up again. Just keep digging your grave next to Blockbuster. Time for me to raise anchor and start sailing the cyber seas again for some media booty. Yar har!

It's not even that commercials are bad because they interrupt the programming. They're bad because most of them are so cringe worthy, like the people who make them have no sense of awareness...

 

[SpotOnTheWall]

"I'm a bigger fan of consumer choice"

So we're not allowed to choose no ads without wasting even more money on a service that's only good for watching Breaking Bad?

Hmm....

 

[God of Nothing]

I'll just download what I want to watch, why pay for commercials?

uh, don't you want to watch cuties?
Stronk nigger cunt-haver, formerly penis-haver, kicking weak ass misogynist male ass?

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Just when you thought Nonceflix couldn't get any shittier.

 

[Gar For Archer]

They could make the entire library of Netflix free and I would still only watch one or two of their shows occasionally, because as many have tried telling them loudly and often, the problem isn't the price so much as it's the content. The price does suck but it could be worth it if they weren't quadrupling down on wokeshit every day. For fucks sake they have an entire "adult animation series" about kids fucking and going through puberty and swearing. "Cuties" is a thing. They made a fucking Viking Jarl from history into a negress. They paid Kevin Smith to rape a beloved 80s cartoon series just for the lulz. They even managed to ruin the Witcher by packing it with diversity hires who can't act for shit and now they're changing storylines to make sure the audience sees a teenage Ciri getting her clit flicked by a lesbian who I'm sure will be a minority insert.

The only original shows Netflix has that are worth a shit are the history documentaries like WW2 stuff and Cobra Kai.

It’s funny because Cobra Kai is basically Netflix getting Youtube Red’s sloppy seconds. If it had started on Netflix it probably would’ve gotten cancelled after Season 1.

 

[oldTireWater]

Goddammit. I just bought a few shares of NFLX yesterday to cash in on that death bounce. Oh well. Don't gamble if you can't afford to lose.

 

[God of Nothing]

It’s funny because Cobra Kai is basically Netflix getting Youtube Red’s sloppy seconds. If it had started on Netflix it probably would’ve gotten cancelled after Season 1.

I hope they transition to Amazon safely.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

Subscription services have become "the norm" now-a-days. Almost every fucking company has one, and almost every normalfag gives away their money to them.

I remember having Netflix YEARS ago but I cancelled it cuz I hardly used it.
I associate Netflix with using it on someone else's TV while Dogsitting and watched a lot of Red Dwarf, it was great!

But I'd rather get stuff I like on DVD and watch anime on free websites.

I wish I could extra-mega-cancel my already-canceled Netflix subscription and make them pay me a monthly fee.

Can someone help me cancel my non-existant account?

 

[PaleTay]

These retards are just making the bleeding worse at this point. Content has gotten far worse over the years, and while they tried to fix that by producing their own originals, I cannot for the life of me think of anything off the top of my head beyond Bojack Horseman and Squid Game. It makes me wonder how much money they piss away making a million different variations of wokeshit. At the same time, the price keeps increasing. Why the hell would anyone pay for Netflix when HBO Max has a library of actually good shows and is cheaper? That's not even getting into their pilot attempts to start cracking down on password sharing - something that has been a cornerstone of Netflix for years.
I've seen some people on Twitter putting a lot of blame on their cancellation of animation projects, but that's not even the tip of the iceberg. There's simply little value proposition now, and it's made worse now that people aren't being forced by their government to be cooped up inside over the coof. Netflix is about to lose their market dominance.

They do have weird originals in the sense that they seem good at picking up shows which were popular but had no exposure, but never actually put effort into maintaining the series. I do check it every once in a while and there's no new content besides Ozark.

 

[Certified_Autist]

The Jews did this

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

Some relatives have Netflix, so I only get to watch it when we visit for Christmas, and every time I sit there for half an hour trying to find something before finally just picking something I have no interest in. Last time I watched that Kevin Costner Bonnie & Clyde movie, and it was the most Netflix movie I've seen since the last Netflix movie.

 

[TurdFondler]

Next year they're gonna wonder why they're hemorrhaging subscribers again and add even more commercials and increase the prices again.

 

[augment]

Thank god, people might finally stop asking me to watch netflix.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

I fucking told people this was going to happen And I was laughed at.

HAHAHHAHAHAHA

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Odd that they're doing this after Bill Ackerman said they were going to take too long to do this (up to two years) and pulled out of their stock taking like a $450m loss. This means that they had commercials already lined up prior to their stock dropping near 40%. Oh well, it's not like I use Netflix. It's only watchable if you have a VPN as different countries have different things to watch and their shows and movies are always rotating.

 

[Pruto]

I never gave them a chance, been pirating everything since I was a kid and I will always do and promote it whenever I can as well.

 

[Belligerent Monk]

lmfao aren't these faggots already bleeding subscribers?
Aaaand this is supposed to... improve things?

 

[SiccDicc]

>YouTube wants to be Netflix so fucking badly, they change their entire premise and website to be similar to them
>Now Netflix has become YouTube thanks to adding commercials and ads

As much as I wish this, I'm not hopeful of this happening. For this to happen, a HUGE majority of people would have to outright cancel their subscriptions, and Netflix has given PLENTY of examples why you SHOULD cancel your subscription and/or not even have one in the first place.

• DRM on their videos
• Older shows/movies have censored/altered episodes/scenes
• Woke shit like "Dear White People"
• Pedo shit like "Cuties"
• Constantly increasing their prices
• Removing actual watchable content, longer running series all fucked up due to missing seasons either earlier or later.

Subscription services have become "the norm" now-a-days. Almost every fucking company has one, and almost every normalfag gives away their money to them.

And you can't use a VPN service to watch stuff from home when you're in some backwaters shithole of a country.

 

[M3xus]

Well, my motivation to watch their foreign stuff dropped to zero. They're no better than TV now.