I just know from personal experience (also in Finland) that the advertising on Youtube has been significant. I don’t remember ever seeing an ad for a ESC song, right there among the phone/service provider, furniture store, food and whatever ads. This time it was all the time, and always just Israel. It was jarringly propaganda. My friend who was over for the watch party commented that she kept getting “an ad for some song” too, and recognized the performer, and she isn’t even an Eurovision fan.
Edit: Also think I’ll be joining the boycott next year. Maybe take a look at the semifinal songs, but this “is this the year the country doing a genocide manages to pay themselves to victory, or which of these contestants might stop it” takes all the fun out of it.
Edit2: Also much congratulations to JJ! It was certainly of the most memorable shows and countertenors are amazing. (Though “opera pop” isn’t my genre, and sounded like he still has a ways to go to make it sound effortless.)
I just know from personal experience (also in Finland) that the advertising on Youtube has been significant. I don’t remember ever seeing an ad for a ESC song, right there among the phone/service provider, furniture store, food and whatever ads. This time it was all the time, and always just Israel. It was jarringly propaganda. My friend who was over for the watch party commented that she kept getting “an ad for some song” too, and recognized the performer, and she isn’t even an Eurovision fan.
Edit: Also think I’ll be joining the boycott next year. Maybe take a look at the semifinal songs, but this “is this the year the country doing a genocide manages to pay themselves to victory, or which of these contestants might stop it” takes all the fun out of it.
Edit2: Also much congratulations to JJ! It was certainly of the most memorable shows and countertenors are amazing. (Though “opera pop” isn’t my genre, and sounded like he still has a ways to go to make it sound effortless.)