Adverts on Paramount +

[turbohat71]

Yes. I linked my Netflix account but pay the upgrade to the top tier to Sky. If you take out the all in Sky package now Netflix comes as part of that, everything paid through Sky with a top up tier available. 

Yes, P+ is technically "free" with Sky Movies but surely there's some money changing hands between the two companies. (Nothing's free in this world - I'm sure Paramount haven't been giving away accounts for free these last two years). There's a monetary value to the "free" base tier account so surely being able to upgrade that at the cost difference makes sense for P+ and Sky. Otherwise customers will bin off Sky Cinema or resent "paying" twice for P+ and just stick with the ad laden tier.  It's a shame that the tier that had Dolby Atmos and Vision is quite so expensive and (apart from Star Trek) the library isn't spectacular value compared to D+. Similar story with TNT - I've no idea how that platform justifies its insane cost with the small

amount of sports it actually carries. At some point the streaming platform model is going to break - we've already got Netflix, D+, Amazon, P+ and now Max on the way. How they and others like Lionsgate, MGM+ can think they're all going to survive is incredulous. 

[best+of+the+best]

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@turbohat71 wrote:

Yes. I linked my Netflix account but pay the upgrade to the top tier to Sky. If you take out the all in Sky package now Netflix comes as part of that, everything paid through Sky with a top up tier available. 

Yes, P+ is technically "free" with Sky Movies but surely there's some money changing hands between the two companies. (Nothing's free in this world - I'm sure Paramount haven't been giving away accounts for free these last two years). There's a monetary value to the "free" base tier account so surely being able to upgrade that at the cost difference makes sense for P+ and Sky. Otherwise customers will bin off Sky Cinema or resent "paying" twice for P+ and just stick with the ad laden tier.  It's a shame that the tier that had Dolby Atmos and Vision is quite so expensive and (apart from Star Trek) the library isn't spectacular value compared to D+. Similar story with TNT - I've no idea how that platform justifies its insane cost with the small

amount of sports it actually carries. At some point the streaming platform model is going to break - we've already got Netflix, D+, Amazon, P+ and now Max on the way. How they and others like Lionsgate, MGM+ can think they're all going to survive is incredulous. 

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Fair comment @turbohat71 actually 12 months of Paramount Plus premium is less than 10 months of Sky Cinema also a 12 months Paramount Plus subscription was free with Sky VIP for those who didn't have Sky Cinema me being one who redeemed the offer last year.

[Skull+Treaty]

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@best+of+the+best wrote:

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Fair comment @turbohat71 actually 12 months of Paramount Plus premium is less than 10 months of Sky Cinema also a 12 months Paramount Plus subscription was free with Sky VIP for those who didn't have Sky Cinema me being one who redeemed the offer last year.

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Not for every Sky VIP member, no such offer was available to me (I also do not have Sky Cinema)

[best+of+the+best]

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@Skull+Treaty wrote:

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@best+of+the+best wrote:

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Fair comment @turbohat71 actually 12 months of Paramount Plus premium is less than 10 months of Sky Cinema also a 12 months Paramount Plus subscription was free with Sky VIP for those who didn't have Sky Cinema me being one who redeemed the offer last year.

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Not for every Sky VIP member, no such offer was available to me (I also do not have Sky Cinema)

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Fair comment @Skull+Treaty should have been more specific with my reply but hey ho stand corrected actually it was with regards to @turbohat71 reply that nothing is given free 

[Skyisthelimit]

I watched a 18min episode and it had 30mins of ads. The episode was unwatchable and is no longer fit for use. 4x 1.5M ads every few minutes is unacceptable. I turn the sound off on the ads and then miss the programme restarts. What is going on Sky I'm paying you £££££ a month for ads. 

[MarkGoldsmith]

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@Skyisthelimit wrote:

I watched a 18min episode and it had 30mins of ads. The episode was unwatchable and is no longer fit for use. 4x 1.5M ads every few minutes is unacceptable. I turn the sound off on the ads and then miss the programme restarts. What is going on Sky I'm paying you £££££ a month for ads. 

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Sky don't control Paramount + so if you really got that amount of adverts I'd suggest complaining to Paramount +.

[nolte]

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@Skyisthelimit wrote:

I watched a 18min episode and it had 30mins of ads. 

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I'm curious, what were you watching?

[Skyisthelimit]

South Park. Normally watch 3 episodes in less than a hour. With the Constant Ads it's now unwatchable my IPad Pro whilst eating my lunch. Not sure why I pay Sky £130 a month. 

[lettice]

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@Skyisthelimit wrote:

I watched a 18min episode and it had 30mins of ads. The episode was unwatchable and is no longer fit for use. 4x 1.5M ads every few minutes is unacceptable. I turn the sound off on the ads and then miss the programme restarts. What is going on Sky I'm paying you £££££ a month for ads. 

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This does not seem right.

Ive watched a fair bit this week on my Sky Stream box using the free with Sky Cinema P+ Basic with ads.

Not all programmes had ads, but those that did had two or three 30-90 sec ad slot countdowns within an episode, so no more than about three or four minutes per episode at any max.

What was the programme name, series and episode number you watched on Paramount+?

[nolte]

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@Skyisthelimit wrote:

South Park. Normally watch 3 episodes in less than a hour. 

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It feels ridiculous that amount of breaks.

You need to raise it direct with Paramount Plus, citing the series no and episode number as that is too much

[Matt7575]

Not sure if this is in the right category but why am I now getting ads in paramount+, and why can't I skip ads on it when I pay for ad skipping?

[lettice]

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@Matt7575 wrote:
Not sure if this is in the right category but why am I now getting ads in paramount+, and why can't I skip ads on it when I pay for ad skipping?

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Moved your post to this  P+ ongoing thread.

Have a read of this thread, and also read the community news article  in link below, that will answer your question;

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-TV/Changes-to-Paramount-Subscription-with-Sky/ba-p/4882005

[Mr+Ripley]

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@Ellie_TV wrote:

Personally, I'd recommend just waiting until there's something you actually want to watch on Paramount+ and signing up for a 7 day free Premium ad-free subscription.

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MODERATOR NOTE: Inappropriate advice removed.

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  @Ellie_TV   Good advice & what we will be doing when all episodes of the new season of Yellowjackets are available. Would also like to give the new Dexter series a go. Not sure if we will binge it all in one week, but the offer helps.

[nolte]

One of the problems with waiting for it all to be available, is that Paramount plus likes to remove content with no warning, as a way to deter people from having these short term subscriptions (same with disney+)

I'd be very surprised if it happened with yellow jackets or dexter, but certainly more niche content is always at risk of the sudden purge.

[Veii]

An "App Subscriptions" category has appeared on the MySky app and it has Paramount+ Basic with ads in there, so hopefully it shouldn't be long now before we can upgrade it!