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Disney+ is going to have ads?

... just googled it:

So they are _adding_ a new plan that's cheaper and ad-supported, and they are not touching the current plans. So nothing will change for my current subscription plan thankfully.

> Disney+’s ad-free subscription tier, which currently costs $7.99 monthly and $79.99 annually, will remain available.

and this:

> What’s more, if the Disney+ profile being used is associated with a child, no ads will play.

source: https://tvline.com/2022/05/17/disney-plus-with-ads-subscript...

edit:

A clarification for the advertising to kids things. Looks like it's no ads to preschool kids

> Regarding kid-targeted ads on Disney+, Ferro said, “Yes, we’re going to have advertising… to kids, but it’s going to be controlled advertising with a lot of parental levers to pull. We’re not going to collect data on that.” She added that there won’t be advertising in preschool content on Disney+ at launch.

source: https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/disney-plus-advertisin...



> Disney+’s ad-free subscription tier, which currently costs $7.99 monthly and $79.99 annually, will remain available

But it will not remain available at that price. Instead that's what the plan with ads will cost, and the prices of the current ad-free plan will be bumped up by 30%.


And that ad-free plan will eventually have ads. Ads are infectious and will always spread uncontrollably once you let them in. Give an inch and they will take a lightyear.


oh I missed that, I'm only just finding out about this now. Can you point to where you read that?

I just found this contradiction to what I had mentioned earlier (going to edit my original message)

> Regarding kid-targeted ads on Disney+, Ferro said, “Yes, we’re going to have advertising… to kids, but it’s going to be controlled advertising with a lot of parental levers to pull. We’re not going to collect data on that.” She added that there won’t be advertising in preschool content on Disney+ at launch.

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/disney-plus-advertisin...


The new prices are here:

https://dmedmedia.disney.com/news/ad-supported-disney-plus-s...

> Premium (No Ads) $10.99


We all knew this was introductory pricing to weasel into the space. This was even the predicted timing.


> So they are _adding_ a new plan that's cheaper and ad-supported, and they are not touching the current plans. So nothing will change for my current subscription plan thankfully.

Fundamentally the problem with paying for ad-free content is that the people who can afford to pay for it are the people advertisers want to target.




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