SAN JUAN, PR — After a couple of years of subscription video-on-demand boom (SVOD), a new model is emerging to capitalize on rumored “subscription fatigue”.<\/p>\n
Advertiser-supported VOD (AVOD) is bringing ad support back on the agenda, even as the rise of pay-for video services brought many to conclude that the era of ad-funding was over.<\/p>\n
Amongst the AVOD contenders are Peacock, Xumo, Pluto TV and Tubi.<\/p>\n
In this video interview with Beet.TV, Tubi<\/a> chief revenue officer Mark Rotblat says AVoD has an attractive complementary place alongside SVoD.<\/p>\n “There’s a lot of room,” he says. “Most of our viewers are Netflix subscribers, I think somewhere around 60%. They typically carry maybe another subscription that they bounce around.<\/p>\n “Maybe they are subscribing to HBO, and then Game of Thrones is over and they move on and then, ‘Oh, we’re going to Showtime’. And they binge something else. And we are the comfort blanket for everything else.”<\/p>\n