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BF69
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join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN

reply to travelguy

Re: Interesting...

said by travelguy:

said by BF69:

Well if people aren't watching commercials then advertisers will ask for lower rates or stop advertising all together and then the networks won't have the money to put on new shows.

Nice try, but it doesn't work that way. Advertisers do not pay for recorded ads. The reason is they have no idea how often an ad is watched on recorded media and they pay by impression - the number of viewers that watch an ad.

Sorry but ad rates for TV are based on audience. If advertisers know that the audience is skipping the commercials that's proof FEWER eyeballs are potentially watching the ads. If FEWER people are watching they can demand lower rates.

Put it this way if YOU were trying to advertise on TV would you pay $1 mil if you KNEW that 95% of the people were skipping the commercials? Of course not. Why do you assume that advertisers are so stupid that they would?

travelguy

join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM

said by BF69:

Sorry but ad rates for TV are based on audience. If advertisers know that the audience is skipping the commercials that's proof FEWER eyeballs are potentially watching the ads. If FEWER people are watching they can demand lower rates.

That's true as a generality, but not how the industry works. TV ad prices are based on Live CPM - cost per thousand viewers at the time the ad is aired. Some rating agencies generate ratings for Live +1, Live +2, Live +3, etc., reflecting the viewings by day after the initial airing, but that isn't what the price is based on.

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