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Apr. 8th, 2016 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethWhen I think of ad breaks in terms of time=money they start to really irritate me.
Which is daft, because TV costs money to make, clearly they need to make money.
But for every 40 minutes of stuff they show us then we pay with 20 minutes of our time.
Which seems really inefficient.
I mean if you were at minimum wage then that would be like £2.40 for the watching ads part of the hour.
But we sit through so much TV we'd not pay £2.40 for.
And I know the TV watching bit of the day is the bit we're, generally, not getting paid for, so the math isn't really that way around.
But still.
And for all that, it's not like a million viewers gets them 2.4 million an hour of ad revenue... is it? I have no idea, really, it has been far to long since I even vaguely looked up what TV costs and makes.
It just seems like there's a more efficient way to turn out time and money into entertainment.
Especially since it costs as much time to watch reruns older than I am as it does to watch new TV, but the ad revenue has to be miniscule in comparison. I mean the stuff you get advertised at 3pm on a week day in the middle of MacGyver does not greatly resemble ads at prime time.
Not that I actually watch either, which is the bigger problem, from a TV funding model point of view.
I mean it's kind of like cheating them, but it's not like ads would go in if I kept my eyes pointing at them. And I don't buy things. So.
The only kinds of ads as ever lead to me buying things are the ones that answer my google searches, and even then it's only if I've checked around for comparisons and they're still the best.
I fear this capitalism thing isn't going to work real good much longer.
All this technology was going to increase our leisure time everso, but once it has then capitalism has no answer to how we can then afford to, you know, live.
Roll on Star Trek style everything dispensers.
... wait, first would need to roll on ways to distribute them evenly while capitalism goes splat...
Since distribution is the only current reason everyone doesn't have as much to eat as they want every day, that seems a complex and distant task...
In the meantime, connecting people with their preferred entertainment is an ever more scattered project, and I have no idea what's on TV until months after the seasons start. :eyeroll:
Which is daft, because TV costs money to make, clearly they need to make money.
But for every 40 minutes of stuff they show us then we pay with 20 minutes of our time.
Which seems really inefficient.
I mean if you were at minimum wage then that would be like £2.40 for the watching ads part of the hour.
But we sit through so much TV we'd not pay £2.40 for.
And I know the TV watching bit of the day is the bit we're, generally, not getting paid for, so the math isn't really that way around.
But still.
And for all that, it's not like a million viewers gets them 2.4 million an hour of ad revenue... is it? I have no idea, really, it has been far to long since I even vaguely looked up what TV costs and makes.
It just seems like there's a more efficient way to turn out time and money into entertainment.
Especially since it costs as much time to watch reruns older than I am as it does to watch new TV, but the ad revenue has to be miniscule in comparison. I mean the stuff you get advertised at 3pm on a week day in the middle of MacGyver does not greatly resemble ads at prime time.
Not that I actually watch either, which is the bigger problem, from a TV funding model point of view.
I mean it's kind of like cheating them, but it's not like ads would go in if I kept my eyes pointing at them. And I don't buy things. So.
The only kinds of ads as ever lead to me buying things are the ones that answer my google searches, and even then it's only if I've checked around for comparisons and they're still the best.
I fear this capitalism thing isn't going to work real good much longer.
All this technology was going to increase our leisure time everso, but once it has then capitalism has no answer to how we can then afford to, you know, live.
Roll on Star Trek style everything dispensers.
... wait, first would need to roll on ways to distribute them evenly while capitalism goes splat...
Since distribution is the only current reason everyone doesn't have as much to eat as they want every day, that seems a complex and distant task...
In the meantime, connecting people with their preferred entertainment is an ever more scattered project, and I have no idea what's on TV until months after the seasons start. :eyeroll: