[drawkbox]

Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising. The internet is no different except that it is a larger market where you make less with advertising. Yes old model ads suck even on Hulu Plus you get them, but content costs are high without them or may not even exist. Many a good shows would have not existed. Advertising has been an engine to creative entertainment + information.

[goldfeld]

I haven't read newspapers or magazines in a long, long time, and TV shows I could easily live without (don't watch any in close to a year), especially if we had indie shows with interesting business models to replace them. I'd gladly pay for my content, but I think there's other models to be explored without appealing to ads. Ads are everywhere because they're easy to put to work, and the payout is potentially really high (if you're ok with helping big corps, their investors, and the centralization of wealth.)

[ShawnBird]

There have been a lot of indie shows popping up via Kick starter funding. Here are two off the top of my head:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/freddiew/video-game-high...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pemberleydigital/the-liz...

[dwb]

> Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising.

No it isn't. Aside from that which I pay for through Netflix (no ads), I pretty much only watch and listen to the various BBC outlets (no ads, and I pay my license fee). I pay for Spotify and Audible and I buy CDs. I like paying money for things because I also hate advertising.

[morsch]

It has. It's also the reason why alternative ways of financing the content aren't being widely explored. And it's not like you're not still paying for those TV shows and magazine's, indirectly and inefficiently and fueling the brainscrambling agencies along the way. TANSTAAFL.

[dragonwriter]

> Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising.

Unless you like/watch/read (for example) TV shows on premium cable, Consumer Reports, etc.

[fpgeek]

You think premium cable doesn't have advertising? Even putting aside shilling for their own shows, what do you think "sneak peeks" at new movies are?

[dragonwriter]

"Has advertising" and "is the result of advertising" aren't the same thing. There's a big difference between things like network TV or most newspapers/magazines where the main thing paying the bills is advertising, and things where advertising is a very distantly behind other revenue sources.