{"id":124841,"date":"2022-04-29T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=124841"},"modified":"2022-04-29T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T07:00:49","slug":"netflix-plans-to-add-commercials-for-some-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/124841-netflix-plans-to-add-commercials-for-some-subscribers","title":{"rendered":"Netflix plans to add commercials for some subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, the video streaming juggernaut of the industry, has changed their stance on ad-free content.<\/p>\n<p>During its Q1<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O1abP3Eo_RA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 2022 earnings interview<\/a><\/strong>, COO Greg Peters indicated that adding advertising to the platform was an \u201cexciting opportunity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix isn&#8217;t alone in this either, as Disney <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/disney-to-introduce-an-ad-supported-subscription-offering-in-late-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong> an Ad-supported subscription package would be coming in late 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes after Netflix share prices dropped &#8211; primarily because the company announced that it has already lost 200,000 subscribers since the beginning of the year and expects to lose another 2 million in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix currently offers four different subscription plans ranging from R49 to R199 per month, supporting different maximum resolutions and user limits.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix has not explained how adding commercials would impact the current subscription plans.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/124839-crazy-pc-game-deals-from-steam-and-epic-games-this-weekend-29-april\">Crazy PC game deals from Steam and Epic Games this weekend \u2014 29 April<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix COO Greg Peters has stated that Netflix plans to add commercials to its streaming service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":124078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26087,26088,10751],"class_list":["post-124841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-commercials","tag-greg-peters","tag-netflix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}