I’m not knocking the existence of ads. I’m pointing out that what used to be a quick 3-4 minute skip at the beginning of the show is now that + a mooove on over + no coffee + bell building and so on…
I love the show and will keep listening every day regardless, but it’s honest feedback. The HBO with ads model is not one than consumers tend to love
It’s not HBO though. If you were paying the same $15/month for the podcast that you do for HBO you could complain about ads all you wanted.
Brian isn’t some guy doing this in his free time. He’s (I presume) a full-time employee of his for-profit employer. That employer’s only incentive to pay Brian is to make money from advertisers.
1. You’re actually free to complain all you want about whatever you want.
2. I don’t know the details of Brian’s relationship with Supertalk. The point is that he’s presumably paid at least the equivalent of a full time salary, which is a very real cost.
3. I know you know all of this and were just offering feedback. The tone of this post is probably overly adversarial, but dang it I’ve spent the time to type it out so I’m posting it.