I actually prefer the Roku promotion ads over laundry detergent and car ads.
So are you saying you prefer:
1) 1 hour of cartegent ads + 1 hour of Roku ads, or,
2) 1 hour of cartergent ads and NO Roku ads?
3) No cartergent ads and 1 hour of Roku ads?
#3 is financially impossible. Roku has to make money.
#2 would be my preference.
If you picked #1, you're nuts! 🙂
What I hate is ALL the ROKU commercials every 5-7 minutes.
Not (yet) a problem in the UK.
Anyway UK has fewer commercials on OTA TV as well (none on BBC, limited to 4 mins per half hour on other channels, US is nearer 8).
No prescription drug ads, although we get gambling ads post 9pm.
Downside: have to pay annual TV license fee (£159 pa, I.e. about $200 US) to watch live OTA channels or BBC channels/use BBCiplayer/BBCsounds on Roku. Can stream without paying license as long as you don't get content that is playing OTA at the same time through OTA channel apps (ITVhub, All4, My5, UKTVplay etc.). Not viable if you like live sports.
I also HATE the fact that if one is not logged in, writes a comment, gets the login screen and backs up to make a change to a post, the Roku web community web site is too stupid to retain the original comment.
That's also 21st century technology - but it's been around for 20 years.
Suffice to say, advertising FOR Roku ON Roku makes as much sense as advertising FOR air travel by interrupting the in-flight movie to remind you that you can buy tickets to ride on an airplane.
It's stupid, stupid, stupid and what happens when people drag 20th Century anachronisms into the 21stCentury. In the 20th Century, television channels competed against each other for TIME-BASED CONTENT. If you were watching program "A" at 8pm Friday, you could not watch program "B" at 8pm Friday. The program you watched was "the winner" because they could count you in the numbers they reported to their advertisers to set advertising rates. BUT in an "on demand" model, you can watch BOTH programs. So the need to disrupt programming to remind you of OTHER programming is of no use. It can be done is a far less intrusive and irritating manner.
Roku's advertising for itself might have made sense 25 years ago. Today, it's just stupid. Maybe all the people at Roky use "dial" telephones, pagers, floppy disks, VHS tapes, cassette tapes, FAX machines, phone books, overhead projectors, typewriters, film cameras, cathode ray televisions and encyclopedias - but most of the rest of the world has moved on.
Yes Roku's advertising engine is a bit under invested and dumb, serving up irrelevant ads. Which makes it far less effective for the few relevant ads buried in the stream.
Their loss.