{"id":1004373,"date":"2026-04-23T08:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004373"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:42:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:12:48","slug":"can-netflix-afford-to-skip-ads-in-india-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/can-netflix-afford-to-skip-ads-in-india-any-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Netflix afford to skip ads in India any longer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When streaming platforms launched in India many moons ago, a major draw they offered was ad-free streaming. <\/p>\n<p>But ads, which many viewed as pesky, returned soon enough, and found their way onto most platforms from JioHotstar to Sony LIV to Zee5. A major holdout was Amazon Prime Video, which finally gave in last year and introduced advertising on all tiers except a new ad-free tier it launched over and above its standard Prime subscription plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When streaming platforms launched in India many moons ago, a major draw they offered was ad-free streaming. But ads, which many viewed as pesky, returned soon enough, and found their way onto most platforms from JioHotstar to Sony LIV to Zee5. A major holdout was Amazon Prime Video, which finally gave in last year and introduced advertising on all tiers except a new ad-free tier it launched over and above its standard Prime subscription plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}