<story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Hulu shows commercials even if you pay.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure Netflix will start once revenue starts slipping.</text></item><item><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text></item><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>Netflix shows commercials right now; they’re just commercials for other Netflix shows. I doubt they’ll start selling the post-roll space to third parties, though, as it’s evidently more profitable for them to use that space to keep you subscribing to the service than to make a few cents for an ad placement.&lt;p&gt;As for cable-style interstitial commercials, though, the only way I could see Netflix ever doing that is if the company were to enter a Blockbuster-level tailspin. It would be selling off the core Netflix experience just to stay afloat.</text></comment>
<story><title>Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-bans-netflix-ads-as-streamings-marketing-wars-intensify-11570199291?mod=rsswn</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jasonjayr</author><text>Hulu shows commercials even if you pay.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure Netflix will start once revenue starts slipping.</text></item><item><author>1123581321</author><text>There are differences: no commercials, shows on demand, more shows, and higher quality (arguably) shows. Additionally, it’s possible to just subscribe to the one service you really like because they all have a lot of content.</text></item><item><author>thismyrealone</author><text>It just feels like the various streaming services are morphing into everything that we hated about cable television.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>excalibur</author><text>Hulu does offer an ad-free tier, it&amp;#x27;s like double the cost of the basic plan. I haven&amp;#x27;t sprung for it yet, but I&amp;#x27;m sorely tempted.&lt;p&gt;I can see Netflix looking to a similar model in the future. What are they at now, $12.99? I can see the current base subscription going to $14.99, while simultaneously launching an ad-supported version priced around $7.99.&lt;p&gt;Edit: Netflix actually DOES offer a cheaper $8.99 plan currently. This one is restricted to one screen at a time, and does not offer content in HD. So if they stuck ads on it, maybe they could bring the price down to like $5.99.</text></comment>