Last Saturday, as the New England Patriots were sloppily beating the Houston Texans 3416 in a playoff game, I wanted to look at the highlight video of a play using the NFL app on my iPad. To watch that 14-second clip, I had to suffer through a 30-second ad for something so irrelevant to me that I cant even recall what it was.
The length and content of that video ad Saturday was, in my view, way out of proportion to the length and value of the clip itself. And thats just one small example of why the advertising-supported model online is broken, and is threatening the whole online content experience with it.
Yes, I understand that ads pay for subscription-free online content. In fact, Im well aware that advertising revenue funds my own pay, and that this column and the podcast that follows it will feature ads. I also understand that my particular NFL example involves exclusive in-game, on-demand highlights that were especially valuable. So I am emphatically not against advertising, per se.
Källa: Mossberg: Lousy ads are ruining the online experience – The Verge
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