If Netflix adds ads, it could lose a quarter of its subscribers – study

There is a hard backstop here for the media industry: piracy. Media will always be available for free if you really want it, and there really isn't much that the music or film industry can do about that. If your paid version is worse than what is freely available, people will stop using your paid version. The market forces here are very much stacked against Hulu/Netflix getting too aggressive with advertising.

I dropped tv because of ads. Im about to drop Prime because of fucking ads before shows. Netflix would lose out too.

Hopefully the other three quarters just have very reliable ad blocking set up.

I think Netflix will have its Amazon moment[1] very soon. They will realize that their library is very unique (original shows) and use that to their advantage to force ads onto users.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17959085" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=17959085</a>

Will unquestionably drop Netflix if they add ads. I already despise the ways they relentlessly pitch other shows. But if they interrupt my shows in any way, that&#x27;s it, I&#x27;m gone. I will not tolerate ads on channels I pay for (and don&#x27;t watch channels I don&#x27;t).

I tried hulu back in the day when even their paid service had ads. Before this I was used to netflix.<p>Coming from netflix,the ads on hula completely ruin the streaming experience.