Paying a Premium for Ads on Your Fridge
Your expensive screen-based devices may just run ads anyway.
This issue of Social Signals was written to Private Music by Deftones.
I always thought that when unskippable ads came to appliances, it would be part of a value-exchange tradeoff. Longtime readers will recall that I already got a free TV in exchange for it playing ads. And I covered automakers experimenting with running ads on your dashboard for potential discounts.
So wouldn’t it make sense that if your fridge is spamming ads into your kitchen, it should be free, or at least discounted? Maybe not…
Wrote about that this week in a special non-Friday issue for paid subscribers.
Let’s get into it! -Greg
🥶 Samsung’s Smart Fridges Get… Ads?
Samsung just rolled out a software update that puts “promotions and curated advertisements” on its Family Hub refrigerators. The idle Cover Screen (the one that usually shows weather, photos, or art) now doubles as an ad channel.