Sky on-demand content and advertisements

[Sk148]

I hope streaming serivces. Leave no choice but to leave sky. There isnt much left on sky apart from sports even that is not a rip off with bt sports 

[TimmyBGood]

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@d2h wrote:

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With the increasing market share of streaming services, the writing is not yet on the wall for Sky but big changes to their model are inevitable - including their pricing. 

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Yes, of course: when Sky launched satellite broadcasting in 1989 a 14.4Kbs modem was science-fiction....

[Mike+Yardley]

Netflix don't have adverts??

[Paul.Oz]

Reports suggest that Netflix will launch (unskippable) adverts on their basic tier possibly as soon as November. Also Disney+ are planning to introduce adverts on their existing plans with the option to pay extra to remove.

Personally, I have no issue paying extra to remove ads and have ITV Hub+ and All 4+ as I fully appreciate the cost of content, however do understand why people get annoyed - at least Sky don't have annoying logo's on the screen throughout!

[TimmyBGood]

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@Paul.Oz wrote:

Reports suggest that Netflix will launch (unskippable) adverts on their basic tier possibly as soon as November. Also Disney+ are planning to introduce adverts on their existing plans with the option to pay extra to remove.

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https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/netflix-ad-tier-launch-november-1235357465/ 

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/disney-plus-ads-launch-price-increase-hulu-1235338148/ 

[Anonymous]

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@d2h wrote:

I am interested to hear the opinions of other Sky customers regarding the increasing amount of on-demand programming with advertisements included either pre-roll or throughout the programme.

How do people feel after already paying to access the content and having ads inserted?

For a free service, entirely dependent on advertising income, it would be fully expected. For a premium/paid-for service, unless I am mistaken, I am not aware of any other service that charges customers to view/access the content AND still includes advertisements before/during the available programming.

Are there any other paid-for services that do this or is it just Sky?

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A similar question was asked recently: https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Adverts-on-a-subscription-service/td-p/3480672 that answers this question.