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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Do TV Audiences Prefer Free Streaming With Ads or Paid Subscriptions Without Ads? We Now Have an Answer · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. A big question is
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  Speaker 1: loomed over Hollywood for the past few years, which do
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  Speaker 1: TV watchers loathe more advertisements on their streaming services or
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  Speaker 1: higher fees in order to enjoy interruption free programming. We
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  Speaker 1: might finally have the answer, and it turns out the
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  Speaker 1: average American consumer first saving their money over their time
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  Speaker 1: and has embraced the ad model. The research firm Antenna
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  Speaker 1: has published a new report revealing that ads supported streaming
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  Speaker 1: subscriptions have nearly doubled in the past two years alone,
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  Speaker 1: leaping from fifty three million subs to over one hundred million,
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  Speaker 1: while by comparison, premium services like Netflix and Disney Plus
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  Speaker 1: have seen essentially no growth in the same timeframe, and
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  Speaker 1: sixty five percent of those customers are new rather than
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  Speaker 1: downgraders looking to save a few bucks. Free platforms like
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  Speaker 1: YouTube also actually get more viewtime now than giants like Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: with ad supported content now accounting for seventy two percent
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  Speaker 1: of all viewing that's direct from Hollywood