{"id":546134,"date":"2026-03-26T09:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546134\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:28:07","slug":"first-sf-giants-at-bats-ruined-by-netflixs-aggressive-ad-insertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/546134\/","title":{"rendered":"First SF Giants at-bats ruined by Netflix\u2019s aggressive ad insertion"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0San Francisco Giants<\/a>\u2019 first at-bats of the season made for a tough viewing experience thanks to some aggressive marketing tactics.<\/p>\n

Starting with the Giants batters in the bottom of the first, Netflix decided to digitally insert a bright red Adobe advertisement on one of the boards behind home plate. This created a glitchy effect where if a player stood in front of the ad, it looked like they stepped in front of a cheap green-screen setup. It was particularly bad with left-handed batter Rafael Devers and Jung Hoo-Lee, whose stances were directly in front of the digital ad. Right-handed batters like Matt Chapman weren\u2019t a reprieve, however, as Yankees catcher Austin Wells would also trigger the glitchiness whenever his head would go over the ad.<\/p>\n

There was a\u00a0fair amount<\/a> of outrage<\/a> about this on social media<\/a> from fans<\/a> trying to watch this highly touted game. It\u2019s not clear whether it was the angry outline mob that triggered a switch, but eventually the broadcast did switch off the bright red Adobe ad to ones with less saturated colors.<\/p>\n

That wasn\u2019t the only complaint viewers had for the Netflix game. Viewers took issue with the tiny text<\/a> that named the pitcher and batter<\/a> on the score bug<\/a>, and complained about the hazy look<\/a> of the main camera angle<\/a> \u2014 although that\u2019s a natural product of the sun shining down on Oracle Park at this time of day.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse for Giants fans, those watching at home had to deal with all of these problems as their team gave up five runs in the second inning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0San Francisco Giants\u2019 first at-bats of the season made for a tough viewing experience thanks to some aggressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[13472,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-546134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sfgsports","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}