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🗓️ 14 May 2026
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Stories discussed in this episode:
- Netflix says that ads will start appearing in more parts of its app
- More than 10% of iPhone owners eyeing a folding phone – survey
- Smartphone Owners Aren't Convinced to Upgrade for Foldable Designs and AI Integrations, CNET Finds - CNET
- Apple is working to incorporate AI agents on the App Store, per report
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Thursday, May 14th, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by Bitwarden. |
| 0:12.6 | Leading off today, Netflix keeps getting more expensive, and that's pushing more users to its ad-supported tier at a lower price. |
| 0:20.2 | This week, alongside bragging about the |
| 0:22.5 | booming ad-tier subscriptions, Netflix also announced that ads will be expanding to more places in |
| 0:28.5 | its app. A few years ago, Netflix famously rejected the idea of an ad tier altogether, but it then |
| 0:35.8 | changed its tune, likely due to continued price increases for |
| 0:39.6 | the other plans and increased competition in the streaming industry. A large share of users |
| 0:45.6 | are now opting for the more affordable ad plan, with Netflix revealing that over 250 million |
| 0:51.4 | people around the globe are subscribed to the ad plan up significantly from 94 million |
| 0:57.1 | this time last year. But Netflix has bigger ad ambitions than just boosting its base of |
| 1:02.7 | subscriptions. Netflix confirmed that it's bringing ads to two new spots in the Netflix app on |
| 1:08.5 | iPhone and other platforms. Ads will start appearing in the new vertical video feed in the Netflix app on iPhone and other platforms. Ads will start appearing in the new |
| 1:12.5 | vertical video feed in the Netflix app, which first launched itself back in April. It's a way to |
| 1:18.8 | view short clips from different TV shows and movies and to learn more about what you might want to |
| 1:23.9 | watch on the service. Second, Netflix says that it's bringing ads to additional podcasts on the platform. |
| 1:30.8 | These changes aim to boost Netflix's ad revenue even further, |
| 1:34.8 | something that can be incredibly lucrative for the company as that subscriber base also continues to grow. |
| 1:41.2 | Netflix remains the most popular and most successful streaming service around the world, but |
| 1:45.9 | market saturation has slowed its growth. |
| 1:48.8 | And now that it's proposed, Warner Brothers Discovery acquisition isn't happening, |
| 1:53.3 | increasing ad revenue may become more central to Netflix's Wall Street narrative. |
| 1:58.3 | Meanwhile, Apple TV remains the only major streaming service that doesn't |
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