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It's right when you open the TV+ app.


Weird, there are none when you use the appletv device


I use an Apple TV.

Maybe it’s just me. I’ve been an Apple One subscriber for a long time now. The Peacock commercial I’m talking about plays right when I open the app, almost full screen and quite loud. It seems to be some sort of add-on offer for Apple One subscribers.


When you open which app? The appletv app on the device?


I’m not sure what you’re asking. I clearly stated that the Apple TV app has ads when I open it from my Apple TV device.


the promos for other shows are commercials


Which you can quickly skip past.


What’s your point, exactly? They are still commercials.


To me there's a very distinct difference between unobtrusive same-service tasteful trailers and entirely unrelated third party ads.

I genuinely discovered great series and films that I enjoyed a lot but I would not have watched otherwise (e.g Shrinking).

This is true for cinema as well.


While I agree that third party advertising is not the same as playing trailers from other same platform shows, once you are in the app, these highly promoted shows are really hard to miss, regardless of how many trailers are placed at the beginning of another show.

For Shrinking, for instance, they placed an almost full screen, auto play trailer in the main carousel. It is also first in the top ten shows, and it appears in a number of other lists.

Regardless of all this, they do play unrelated promotions for their add ons like some sports stuff or the Peacock deal.




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