• umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Newspapers. You paid for it, and it still got ads.

    I know, digital and printed ads are different.

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      10 months ago

      Cable TV, same thing. This is just old media execs trying to “bring back the magic” or new media execs thinking that old media techniques will work

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          10 months ago

          Probably the same case for newspapers, radio, the internet, movies in theatres, gas station pumps etc. Though each new medium we create has a shorter and shorter Time-To-Ad-Platform runway it seems

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          10 months ago

          The first cable TV system in the U.S. was built in the late 1940s and had ads from day one since it was created to bring network television to communities with poor reception. Cable has always had ads.

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      10 months ago

      I mean sure, but it’s also been literally a decade since I bought a newspaper.

      I bought it for the coupons.