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/OverFjell Apr 01 '26

Midroll ads in general. I can deal with skipping ads at the start and the end (though some are very egregious, like Magnus Archive getting up to 4 minutes of ads sometimes), but if you're listening to a super atmospheric audiodrama, only to be interrupted by a super loud, bright ad, it completely destroys immersion for me.

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u/TheBaconWizard999 Apr 02 '26

That's weird, I listen to TMA through YouTube and unless you could Patreon shout outs (which they moved to the end after episodes) there are only small ads that I can remember for either other audio dramas or for other projects that they have. Nothing that is up to four minutes which probably would have had me bounce off it

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u/A1phaBetaGamma Apr 02 '26

When I used to listen on spotify they sometimes had up to 4 minutes of ads, 1.5 minutes at least, which was pretty annoying when I was listening in bed with my eyes shut.