Devil’s Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, “we hate advertising and don’t want it shown during our show, so that’s the kind of licence we will agree to”.
I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.
Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.
Yeah, I’ll put my hand up and admit I haven’t read the article :-)
That said, I think someone else pointed out that just because a show or movie is labelled as a Netflix Original, doesn’t necessarily mean they made it. So the kind of licence issue I was speculating about might still apply to a bought-in property.
Yeah, I feel like there is a lot at play even in terms of how the content is paid for. Maybe netflix only gets the ad money and not the creatives, in which case they don’t want their content on the ad version. Either way, the customer suffers.
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Devil’s Advocate here, but I wonder if that could be a choice made by the creatives or the production company - like, “we hate advertising and don’t want it shown during our show, so that’s the kind of licence we will agree to”.
I think a lot of people would applaud that sentiment of refusing to have ads in their show.
Unfortunately the result would be that for noble, purity of the art, reasons they end up accidentally screwing people in your situation.
No idea if that’s plausible, but maybe?
As the article states, this applies to Netflix originals too so I don’t know how true this is.
Yeah, I’ll put my hand up and admit I haven’t read the article :-)
That said, I think someone else pointed out that just because a show or movie is labelled as a Netflix Original, doesn’t necessarily mean they made it. So the kind of licence issue I was speculating about might still apply to a bought-in property.
Yeah, I feel like there is a lot at play even in terms of how the content is paid for. Maybe netflix only gets the ad money and not the creatives, in which case they don’t want their content on the ad version. Either way, the customer suffers.
So not a real loss in this specific case.