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3. How many people watch ads?

Reply to KurtNYC (Original post)

Thu Jul 5, 2012, 08:16 PM

Jul 2012

My wife and I were discussing this the other day.

Before we cancelled Dish; we weren't watching commercials. We had our programs recorded and skipped through all the commercials.

We watch Netflix and Hulu now and while there is no skipping the commercials on hulu; there aren't many, and if they started bombarding me with political ads I'd watch more Netflix which has no commercials.

Does anyone else here have similar viewing habits. If you do; do you agree? A lot of these PAC ads may get viewed less than at any time in the past.

It may be a huge waste of money.

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