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Monday, October 31, 2011
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Commercials, by Multiple Choice
NYTimes.com/ Digital Domain – by RANDALL STROSS
ON a television set, 10 feet away, commercials are often irritating. On a computer monitor, just inches away, they are often something else: downright invasive.
Both Hulu.com and YouTube know that many of their viewers hate commercials, and yet their business models have depended mostly on advertising. So both have been trying to make online commercials more appealing. And both are headed in the same direction: offering online viewers the chance to choose which commercials they watch.
This month, Hulu introduced a format that gives users the option of clicking an “ad swap” button after a commercial begins and choosing to replace it with one of two or three options. Don’t want to sit through an oil company’s commercial? Then go with one from a cellphone carrier or a razor maker.
The system isn’t perfect. By the time users decide to go with an alternative, they may have already seen a good portion of the first ad. Beginning a second one means a longer commercial break.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/business/on-hulu-and-youtube-commercials-by-multiple-choice.html
Link to Broadway Grosses for the week ending October 30, 2011:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/156091-Broadway-Grosses-Oct-24-30
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm
Current week:
1. Wicked – 1,629,545
2. The Lion King
3. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
4. The Book of Mormon
5. Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Last week:
1. Wicked - $1,698,824
2. The Lion King
3. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
4. The Book of Mormon
5. Jersey Boys
5 Years Ago:
1. Wicked - $1,408,440
2. Jersey Boys
3. The Lion King
4. The Drowsy Chaperone
5. The Color Purple
10 Years Ago:
1. The Producers - $1,091,997
2. The Lion King
3. Mamma Mia!
4. 42nd Street
5. Aida
Opening this week:
Broadway
Other Desert Cities – Booth Theatre – Thursday, November 3
Off Broadway
Hand to God – Ensemble Studio Theatre – Monsday, October 31
Milk Like Sugar – Peter J. Sharp Theater – Tuesday, November 1
A Charity Case – Clurman Theatre – Wednesday, November 2
The Fartiste – Sofia’s Restaurant Downstairs Theatre – Thursday, November 3 (was Thursday, October 27)
How Much Is Enough: Our Values in Question – St. Ann’s Warehouse – Thursday, November 3
Little House on the Ferry – Chernunchin Theater – Thursday, November 3
Poor Food – American Theatre of Actors: Sargent Theatre – Friday, November 4
Iron Curtain – Baruch Performing Arts Center – Saturday, November 5
Two-Man Kidnapping Rule – New Ohio Theatre – Saturday, November 5
Queen of the Mist – The Gym at Judson – Sunday, November 6