Turning hated pre-rolls into 6-sec of entertainment
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94% of millennials will skip the pre-roll if they could, as it is often irrelevant to what they’re searching for to watch.
To make the pre-roll experience less annoying, Netflix served up entertaining 6-sec “quips” based on scenes and characters from Netflix Original titles. Responding to search queries in real-time using YouTube technology, our pre-rolls were always contextually relevant to current affairs, latest movies, popular YouTube how-to searches and more.