Free streaming hatchet jobs with commercials

It'd be nice if YouTube gave content creators some control over the placement of an ad. I can understand where streaming services may not want to watch their content that closely but it is annoying.

SamsungPlus has a channel I checked out for a short time that was apparently some guy's Minecraft videos and they just put commercials in every 5 minutes. To their defense, it's not like the creator of the content likely ever considered commercial breaks and sadly the content that they're running really isn't very good even by a Minecraft fan's standard.

The prime offender is SamsungPlus. Hulu is better but still not really well controlled.

tubi is the Rolls Royce of commercials-supported streaming videos. They always give you an on-screen countdown 10 seconds before the next break, the breaks never interrupt action or dialogue, and the breaks are no more than 2 minutes, and usually much shorter. I made the mistake of watching a movie on xumo today that literally broke in the middle of a sentence. The stated running time for the movie was 1 hour, 40 minutes, but the overall time clocked in at 2 hours, 50 minutes; so, 70 minutes of commercials stuffed into a 100-minute movie.

I tried re-watching the series Weeds on Peacock+ (has “+” become the newest cool verbal add-on, eclipsing “i” and “e” and “X”?), and the streaming literally broke EVERY 4 MINUTES, with no regard to what was going on in the narrative. That’s 7 commercial breaks in a 30-minute show.

I’ve got Paramount+ at 10 bucks a month with NO COMMERCIALS, and not the standard $6/month subscription. The $4 more is a very small price to pay for no interruptions. I have a friend who loves the show Evil as much as I do, but she bought the basic Paramount+ and she says the commercial breaks take her right out of the show. One minute, terrifying demon. Next minute, laxative commercial.

The tubi model is the way to go.