>>93243753You have a point, they have a nice initiative, but the issue is, again, hardly promoting it.
Like this NEW IN JUNE for Clarence, that's like every commercial break, for Regular Show, the bomb was hardly promoted, and towards the end it just stopped, and after that they started premiering new episodes in the dead of night without a "NEW" tag too. It didn't help this was when [as] had JUST went to 9 PM for a short time, they chose that moment to air these episodes at 8 PM, which was what [as] is known for now.
They never promoted the episodes they put on demand months prior to airing them either. Like the SU fans give CN shit for putting the episodes on demand early, but at least they get "see it first / get a sneak peek on the cartoon network app!" ads during commercial breaks, RS never got that.
Also the penultimate episodes of the series aired on a saturday, at 12 pm, there was 0 advertising, you know those weekly videos on CN's site where they post a clip of the episode that's airing that week, and put when they air in the description? They posted the clips but nowhere did they say when it was airing. There were NO commercials for it either. This was especially bad because the turning point in the finale flashed back to these episodes that hardly anyone saw.
Speaking of hardly knowing what's going on, that's why the RS final season got such shit views, they didn't advertise the S7 finale so very few people knew why they were in space or what was happening, and "i'm not caught up so i have no idea what's happening" happened.
So you're right, the bomb and the VoD is a viewer tactic, but for RS it wasn't there were too many variables showing that they just wanted it dead. The finale airing the moment it was finished is the worst sign of that, and there's a lot of signs it was rushed.
