Not a promotion. Just a rant.
Video may have killed the radio star, but what has killed the TV? Ads. Yucky, annoying, and at times cringe-extreme commercials. From a Bollywood hottie confessing on-screen about how she has no time to take a bath and suggesting an alternative to another showing utmost care about your child's grades in school, television today has more commercials than any useful content at all.
You try to be up to speed with current affairs and you switch on the news, and voila! the screen is flooded with a scroller showing a random hair-oil commercial. Another banner on the side sticks out to show more endorsements and last but not least, her laptop has a funny sticker of a shoe brand (wow).
Every show has that classic "we will be right back after a short break". Like what break man? You literally threw ads on the viewers' faces all along and now you want us to give you A BREAK? Talk amongst yourself on that. Then there is the sanitary napkin. These ads endorse the region so that the viewers will understand what goes where, you know it is so easy to mistake it for a hanky. The so-called ad agencies for some reason think we are still living in an age where we do not understand menstruation!!
Last but not least is the infamous banner by our broadcasting corporation asking the general public to report their displeasure if any found after watching the content shown on TV. Thank you for making our lives better.
So what's the conclusion? Well, I think this is a cheap agenda to get viewers to subscribe to those fancy streaming platforms to make more money. Can't wait till tomorrow's episode of saas-bahu battle? Join that app where you can see it early plus it does not contain any ads. So what do you think? Do you enjoy the ads on what is now truly the IDIOT BOX.