SPANISH ADVERTISEMENTS
First of all, I don't speak nor do I understand Spanish. So my question is does anyone get advertisements in Spanish? The reason for my question is that I have set up my device in English and maybe ...
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I'm getting commercials in Spanish on Real America's Voice, The First, and ABC Network. Current are ads for Verizon, Target and Toyota. All through my Roku. DRIVES ME CRAZY! Everything is set for English Language in setup.
I am making it a point to NOT patronize any spanish language advertisers
Most any company you buy from advertises in multiple languages. You've just probably never seen those ads. Why would you boycott a company that advertises in another language?
Also, the ads may be inserted by a third party service, depending on how the channel is set up.I don't think this community was supposed to turn into Twitter Lite.....and I still got no answer to my original question. I did answer it on my own though. I checked the apps on a different streaming platform and guess what? NO Spanish commercials. This is Roku intentionally inserting Spanish lingo ads and it is getting worse & more numerous. If there is a Roku Admin monitoring this Community and can weigh-in....I'm all ears. In the meantime I have only one additional comment: Let's Go Brandon!
I believe that Language settings are just for programming. Ads can be in any language the advertiser wants. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
Just because someone is watching English language programs doesn't mean that English is their first language. If the advertiser thinks Spanish speaking people can be better served with ads in Spanish, that's what they will do.
I appreciate your response but I have a very hard time believing the ultra-right, ultra-conservative news channel I'm watching is purposely inserting spanish language commercials and pro-vaccine commercials in their programs. "There are no conspiracies; but there are no coincidences".
I used to work in radio advertising a long time ago.Though the medium is different advertising principles are much the same.
The three parts of the advertising picture are the buyer, the seller,and the product. The buyer is the advertiser. The seller is the program or network. The product is you! That is, the program attracts a certain demographic the advertiser wants.
Some programs or networks are financially able to pick and choose. Most will take any advertising they can get just to stay on the air, including some that may seem contrary to their programming.
Many Spanish speaking viewers are conservative, especially those that have escaped socialist dictatorships, such as Cubans and Venezuelans. But really, advertisers don't care about their politics, they just want to sell the products.
