I think public services in general have a different concept of what advertising means, compared to the private sector. It's almost like the advertiser is a donor rather than a client.

With private sector advertising, I almost expect the ads to be garish. If the only goal is to make money, then market forces push for the ads to become more and more invasive until you basically can't view the content thanks to all the ads.

I'm sure I'm echoing what many people have said before, but we need to find a way for content to stop being a cost center and start to become the actual source of revenue.