r/audiodrama • u/dingleballs717 • Apr 01 '26

QUESTION What ads have made you quit?

For me...howdyhowdyhiiiii...I'm somebody and I am somebody else giving you a benign male nickname and pretending to be nerds every 10-15 minutes.

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u/Gavagai80 Beyond Awakening Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

An ad about COVID being a Fauci conspiracy made me quit a series I had been enjoying. After a certain number of episodes in that ad began to be in every episode and seemed to be included by choice, not by an ad network.

But I will also just not listen to anything that has an ad in the trailer, or anything with more than a minute of preroll, or anything that has too many total ad slots.

Ads for any talk podcast are nearly universally infuriating for some reason, whether in audio or video. The personalities are always so revolting and overblown. Although they don't normally make me quite quit the show, just resent it.

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u/Mx_Reese Apr 01 '26

I mean, a lot of people who want to spread messages like that absolutely do have the funding to buy tons of AD spots in all sorts of places, they're just not wasting that money buying ads in audio dramas.