Jeep introduces in-dash advertisements

[tock13]

This is why I don’t watch tv, listen to the radio and never touched Sirius in the Bronco. I have 3 years worth of music tucked nicely away under the seat on a laptop. And I blissfully sail down the road with nary an ad to be seen or heard.

Until I get to the next gas pump and have to listen to why I should buy a monster drink for 99 cents.

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[userdude]

I'd rather "rent" a feature because I'm used to buying different options in a car. I pay to get a thing I want, or, not.

But car makers want you to have a positive association with their brand, so you'll keep buying it. If they treat every sale like it's the last one ever so they might as well milk it customer-be-damned, they won't keep anyone's business. Competition in the auto industry is fierce. The lifetime value of spamming my screen is nothing compared to the loss when I walk to the other dealership. I think demand to avoid this stuff would be high enough that not everyone does it. Or at least, they offer the indignity of an ad-free car, maybe with the lux package? I pay Spotify more to avoid the ads.

Well, good luck with that. This is the same industry that went all in on planned obsolescence in the 70's and got their ass creamed by the Japanese and South Koreans in the 90's. The car companies want to get rich. If they get richer turning all these screens into rental (ad) income, it may take a little while, but it'll happen.

 

[Brian_B]

Paying the $3 (Prime)

Prime has ads now.

https://advertising.amazon.com/products/prime-video-ads

 

[SierraBronco]

This is why I don’t watch tv, listen to the radio and never touched Sirius in the Bronco. I have 3 years worth of music tucked nicely away under the seat on a laptop. And I blissfully sail down the road with nary an ad to be seen or heard.

Until I get to the next gas pump and have to listen to why I should buy a monster drink for 99 cents.

99 cents?!?!?! Where!?!?! Time to stock up!!

 

[Brian_B]

99 cents?!?!?! Where!?!?! Time to stock up!!

Time to fill up my rotopaxes with Baja Blast Dew Slurpee

 

[userdude]

Prime has ads now.

https://advertising.amazon.com/products/prime-video-ads

You can pay another $3/month to not get those ads. I give it a few more months or year or so before that goes away too. But for now it's there.

(Technically, though, they do have their own content ads they show before starting a show or movie. This has been going on for some time and is dismissible after a few seconds.)

 

[nabronco21]

BG6 Forum is already on the bandwagon...seven different pop-up adds as I read through this thread. Can't even read in peace

Duck duck go app is what I look at this forum through. Zero ads it's pretty nice.

 

[jehines3]

I'm afraid @crenca is right - this is just the first few drops before the dam bursts wide open and it's in every car.

I mean, how long has it taken streaming services to go with ads, often along with paid subscription fees? I dropped SXM because I couldn't take all the ads on the talk channels. There just isn't much out there that isn't ad-free...

Billboards just aren't enough, because you need advertisements when you are off road too.

And here i thought it couldn't get any worse than subscription-based vehicle features... I was sadly proven wrong yet again.

I was an OG XM guy in DC in 2001 (less than 50k subs). When they sold out in 03-04 to adds, I killed it. I loved a long road trip with no static and willing to pay for content with no commercials. Ads started small, but greed is obvious when you are the one paying. I have refused all SXM on any new vehicle for 20+ years. I pay for Apple Music on a family plan and make downloadable playlists. I can stream any song on command. Yes commercials will sneak in on any free platform. Do. It accept them on a paid platform.

I understand the need to monetize, but that experience 20+ years ago made me sensitive to it and I will kill a greedy subscription contract in a heartbeat.

in the end, we are not exempt but I’m trying to minimize paying to be advised too.

 

[Callelk]

I built this computer 12-21-24. My last computer had millions of adds blocked, thousands of hours saved from trash...........

 

[MOBLRN]

I wonder if it's only if you have XM active. Someone on the page from that link says it's from a contract with XM. If this keeps going I'll probably not buy a Jeep again and I'll be canceling my XM soon.

'You can't watch movies on the infotainment center, but our ads are no problem!'

I have a 2021 Jeep Wrangler Sport and am looking for a way to completely stop the ability for XM to advertise, which they seem to do despite my never activating it. The only way to stop it is to plug in your phone before starting and sometimes that doesn't work. If you don't plug in you have to hit the media button, select Bluetooth, select your phone if others have ever been paired with the system and maybe you will get your Pandora music. I will not be getting another Jeep for sure.

Rod

 

[MOBLRN]

That's a nice idea, but not how advertisers think. Those would be potentially very valuable ads, especially if they know whose in the car (phone). The ads they see will likely be very different from you or me, though.

TVs are turning into ad platforms at the OS level. (And yes, they can do this with updates, not only new TVs.) I know my high-end LG TV already has moved this goal post and from what I've read about it, none of the sets are going to be excluded. Once you sell a TV (or a car), the manufacturer generally stops getting money for that purchase. To keep monetizing that relationship, monitor what the buyers are doing with the product (Ford does this already), sell that in some form and offer ads through new opportunities.

Also, renting that product (in terms of rental income) is something car manufacturers have been chasing since the 90's. Ads, you're the product. That will likely go down better than renting remote start and heated seats to you, the "buyer of the product". Revenue streams will be created one way or the other.

I don't really care about the ads on the top of the gas pumps. It's not in my personal vehicle, it's just sort of like a billboard we have to see along the roads. Do hate the ones with the bright flashing lights that blind you from seeing at night though. Luckily as I age the less time spend driving at night.

If I do happen to remember one of those pump top adds or bright flashing signs while shopping it's a sure way that I WILL NOT purchase the item.
Rod

 

[555-RGNE]

I have a 2021 Jeep Wrangler Sport and am looking for a way to completely stop the ability for XM to advertise, which they seem to do despite my never activating it. The only way to stop it is to plug in your phone before starting and sometimes that doesn't work. If you don't plug in you have to hit the media button, select Bluetooth, select your phone if others have ever been paired with the system and maybe you will get your Pandora music. I will not be getting another Jeep for sure.

Rod

 

[mikec426]

Shell gas stations show ads as you're getting gas.

2nd button down on the right is a mute button for those. Actually pulled up to a pump yesterday that someone had sharpied “MUTE“ next to it. I thought, “Ah, some heroes don’t wear capes.”

 

[42Jose]

I use samsung browser and have never seen an ad on this forum.

 

[Umichigan1]

I have some questions.....

1. The whole point of Sirius/XM was pay for music, no commercials. Though you get stuck listening the DJ's talk all time. Did something change in that regards?
2. How can anyone state this is part of the contract with Sirius/XM when the ad shown in the video appears to be for an extended warranty from Jeep?

In the end, I guess this is what everyone ends up with, they all wanted these fancy electronics, now it's just another way for car companies to feed us useless ads.

Nobody seems to remember when cable TV was sold as an ad free experience. "Buy a subscription and go ad free!" Satellite radio began in exactly the same way and will end up in the same place. Personally I know that I will reach a point when media becomes so obstructive and so annoyingly pernicious that I will happily leave it all behind and live out the rest of my life in a proverbial cave.

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