Many viewers watch digitally recorded shows and skip through commercials, making traditional television advertising strategies obsolete. Attempts to stop viewers have been unsuccessful. New approaches to television include making advertisements short and simple enough for the viewer to receive the message while fast forwarding and increasing their entertainment value so that viewers will enjoy the commercial enough to watch it rather than fast forward through it.

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How television advertising deals with DVRs destroying their business – San Francisco Chronicle (blog)