Excellent breakdown. My biggest frustration is when broadcasts cover the back of the visitors mound with a shoddy brown box. It's so distracting.
They're also playing a zero-sum game by overlaying digital ads. If they haven't already, sponsors are going to catch on that they're only ever getting half the audience.
I could better live with the ads if they weren't degrading the center-field camera framing. As you so skillfully detail, these cameras are now zoomed way out to create more empty space to fill with ads, and it's a pretty ugly viewing experience with the pitcher and catcher looking so small. Doesn't really present baseball as an exciting sport.
Yes! I don't know exactly how much ad exposure plays into those decisions, but look at how much the Orioles players shrunk! https://mlbbackstops.netlify.app/#orioles
This is a rare Big 4 sports critique where I feel like my automatic "the NHL actually does this better" canned response is un-usable!
Excellent breakdown. My biggest frustration is when broadcasts cover the back of the visitors mound with a shoddy brown box. It's so distracting.
They're also playing a zero-sum game by overlaying digital ads. If they haven't already, sponsors are going to catch on that they're only ever getting half the audience.
Ya the mound is a classic example of one of those things you never notice—and then once you do, you see it everywhere.
And agreed on the accounting front, though I fear the follow-up to any drop in pricing would be finding more placements to make up for that...
I could better live with the ads if they weren't degrading the center-field camera framing. As you so skillfully detail, these cameras are now zoomed way out to create more empty space to fill with ads, and it's a pretty ugly viewing experience with the pitcher and catcher looking so small. Doesn't really present baseball as an exciting sport.
Yes! I don't know exactly how much ad exposure plays into those decisions, but look at how much the Orioles players shrunk! https://mlbbackstops.netlify.app/#orioles