More streaming services are offering ad-supported plans -- just this week AMC was the latest to announce its offering -- as the role of advertising continues to grow in importance to Premium SVOD Services and their profitable growth strategies. In 2020, only one in five new Gross Adds were to ad-supported plans; last year, it was nearly one in three.
It's clear from the popularity of ad-supported plans among the Services which offer them that consumers will opt into advertising with the right offer. The four Services that have had ad-supported plans since their inception—Peacock, Hulu, Paramount+, and Discovery+—each have at least 43% of Subscribers on the ad-supported option.
And ads are gaining ground. The proportion of 2022 Gross Adds (i.e., new customers) who selected the ad-supported option is higher than the existing Subscriber base for six of the seven Premium SVODs.
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Brendan Brady is a Content Strategy Associate at Antenna, a measurement and analytics company providing insight into purchase behavior and subscription metrics across the new media landscape.
