WHEN ADS BUFFER I SUFFER

11:35 PM Unknown 5 Comments

Ads are the worst. 
We all hate them… but they're everywhere. When I’m scrolling through my Twitter timeline, watching a video on YouTube, playing a game on my phone, they just pop up and take forever to finish! The worst kind of ads on YouTube are those long one minute ads that you can’t skip…Do you guys feel my pain? The beauty of YouTube is that you could watch videos for free, which is basically free entertainment. Who doesn’t love free things?

But, $9.99 a month to block ads? It’s not that beautiful anymore. 

Yes, truth be told, ads are so annoying and are a total waste of time because there’s not a high chance that I would buy the product or service that they are advertising. Ad free YouTube, well pretty much “ad-free anything” sounds beautiful. It’s like everyone’s dream come true. But, $9.99 a month is way too much, considering the fact that Netflix is only $7.99 a month. Also, (despite the fact that I totally just complained about these ads on the beginning of this post), YouTube ads only last for a minute at most, and you could skip most of the ads that they play. They may seem to take forever because you’re on YouTube to watch a video, not some random ad that you aren’t interested in. But in reality, these ads don’t take up that much of our time. I mean, speaking for myself, I’m on YouTube because imp on my free time, or I have time to waste anyway. I just don’t think it’s worth it. If I had to pay $9.99 a month for ad-free YouTube, maybe I would learn to enjoy the ads that are playing (not very likely), instead of paying for it.

Who’s it really going to benefit?
YouTube ads may be a tactic used to attract customers, but these companies or brands, already have other ways of advertising their product or service. So, I don’t think that they have to rely on YouTube ads to attract costumers because commercials are always on TV, there are gigantic billboards on the side of highways, and radio ads are always playing. Personally, I think that the only type of YouTube advertising that I find effective are ads for movie trailers. But other than that, all I do skip the ads.


They say that time is money. So, if I paid for ad-free YouTube for $9.99, I probably wouldn’t be benefiting from it that much because this subscription would only save me two minutes at most every few videos I watch, and I would then be paying $9.99 just to say two minutes. So, I wouldn’t buy it because I would prefer to spend my precious $9.99 on something else.

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IS TV DYING?!

8:24 PM Unknown 4 Comments

Is TV dying? In my opinion, yes it is. Back then, everyone I knew loved to watch TV. I would watch cable TV for hours and time would pass without me noticing, and this was my favorite way to procrastinate. But now? I still procrastinate...but I do it using other forms of entertainment. In our modern day society, everyone is on their phones, computers or laptops. We spend countless hours on the Internet, on social media tweeting, posting and liking pictures, watching movies and shows online ALL DAY, EVERY DAY. I mean, I don't even remember the last time I watched a TV show on cable and tuned into it without going on my phone. Thanks to Netflix, Shomi, YouTube, (my personal Holy Trinity), and other forms of media entertainment, we could watch any video, movie, or TV show that we want to watch, when we want.
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With internet based television services, such as Netflix, it has become so popular because of the many perks of having it. One being you don't really have to deal with commercials that go on before the most intense scene, or you don't have to deal with commercials at all. Also, another great thing about this form of television service is that you can watch multiple seasons and episodes. Yes, the newest season isn't always up, but there are a ton of other TV shows that you can indulge yourself into. With Netflix, it is way too easy to become someone who binge watches TV shows and movies, and I can’t lie, it’s one of my bittersweet “hobbies”. With a ton of options that you can watch whenever you want, you’ll feel like the world is on your hands.

You just don't hear anyone talk about watching shows on TV channels anymore. When people do talk about TV shows, hardly anyone goes "Hey, did you watch that show last night on ABC?" But instead, it goes something like, "So there’s this show on Netflix, you should watch it.” Even though cable TV isn’t as popular as it used to be, people still do watch it. TV is still useful for watching the news to know about the weather, news about something tragic or joyful, current events, the latest entertainment gossip, and more. When a big sport’s game comes on, the Olympics, and recently the Pan Am Games, we all go to watch TV and support our favorite teams.

A lot of channels may be losing viewers, a.k.a. my favorite childhood channels such as YTV, Family Channel, and Disney Channel, because a lot of the kids who used to watch shows there have grown up and are now into Netflix, YouTube, Shomi, and etc.

So, I think that TV may be dying because a lot of people have moved on to internet streaming media.  

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