05-11-2022, 08:55 PM
I pay for both All4+ and ITV Hub+ intermittently as it’s so much nicer (and ‘normal’ in the world of streaming) to watch without interruption.
I’ve been watching The West Wing of late though and it’s one of the series that still has ads (or as the continuity announcer says in the pre-roll announcement, ‘commercial messages’) even if you pay the subscription. I think the only other time I’d encountered this previously was with the pre-Channel 4 series of Taskmaster.
On a side note, the ads when you have All4+ have been strange in my experiences - in both instances I’ve only ever been served ads for Channel 4 when watching these shows. Occasionally the ads are for an upcoming show, but for the most part they are advertising something else that’s available to watch on All4, which seems a strange sell when I’ve already got the subscription! At some point during my run of West Wing watching, the ads (and pre-roll announcement) stopped appearing when watching on Apple TV, but they still play if I cast the show from my phone or watch online. I assume it’s a bug so I haven’t been rushing to report it to them!
I’ve been watching The West Wing of late though and it’s one of the series that still has ads (or as the continuity announcer says in the pre-roll announcement, ‘commercial messages’) even if you pay the subscription. I think the only other time I’d encountered this previously was with the pre-Channel 4 series of Taskmaster.
On a side note, the ads when you have All4+ have been strange in my experiences - in both instances I’ve only ever been served ads for Channel 4 when watching these shows. Occasionally the ads are for an upcoming show, but for the most part they are advertising something else that’s available to watch on All4, which seems a strange sell when I’ve already got the subscription! At some point during my run of West Wing watching, the ads (and pre-roll announcement) stopped appearing when watching on Apple TV, but they still play if I cast the show from my phone or watch online. I assume it’s a bug so I haven’t been rushing to report it to them!