It’s not called Netflix and “shill.”
ęĻThe subscription-based streaming service reporđtedly saved viewers from over nine days of commercials in 2019, .
The entertainment site calculated that two hours of Netflix’s ad-free viewing experience equals a deficit of 36 minutes of daily commercials that audiences would’ve been subjected to watching network TV. That amounts to 219 hours of ads per year, or 9.1 days of commercials, that viewers were spared from watching last year.
Throw in the fact that Netflix’s daily usage has shot up at least 30 minutes per viewer during the coronavirus quarantine, and the online entertainment bazaar is cutting out an extra nine miđŧnutes of ads per day.
The absence of ads is one of the main reasonsđ the masses are increasingly tradingđĨ cable services for subscriptions to Netflix, which eclipsed Disney in terms of company worth this past April, .
Disney launched ię§ts own streaming service, Disney+, in November and now . Last month, Netflix reached worldwide.
Despite networks promising to shorteâ¨n the hourly ad-block, the number of TV commercials is on the rise, .