57. Why Have Streaming Services Put So Many Ads In Our Shows? with Film Critic Matt Zoller Seitz

Lead Balloon - Marketing, Public Relations and Strategic Communications Stories · Mar 26, 2025 · 34m

After more than a decade of living in an entertainment golden age...

Filled with more and better options, with less advertising, than ever before in human history...

Are the good times over?

Almost every major streaming service has recently begun inserting advertising into its programming.

And it's NOT your imagination... the ads really are more disruptive and obnoxious than traditional television commercials.

So what's driving the sudden advertising stampede in the streaming services that we used to love? How much worse is it going to get?

And who in their right mind still thinks that…