Hi CBS or any other television studios,

I saw your interesting “ad” or facebook post about the popular television show “The Mentalist” and I had decided to check it out.

After clicking on the link, I find the following making me gasped in horror.

And upon further investigation, this particular video had been purposely blocked from being viewed by selected countries.

Some comments found in the facebook shows how limited your “video” can be seen from other countries but you prefer to “advertise” this video on an internationally viewable facebook post.

I understand after loading that page there are some other videos below that I can still watch.

But it defeat the purpose of clicking on your facebook post that I’m attracted to in the first place.

I know you probably have your reasons for limiting this small clip of video from showing based on availability of that episode in that country and don’t want to give too much “spoilers”.

Or there are other reasons that defy any conventional logic, obviously you want  as many  people as possible to watch your videos right?

The only problem is how you can profit from giving this SMALL clip away free internationally without limitation, it’s basically VERY simple…targeted advertising.

I noticed other videos you had shown have a compulsory pre-roll advertising however that “ads” may show a product that’s not available in my country lowing the value of showing that advertisement hence lowering the amount advertisers willing to pay as it’s not the right market.

If you can detect the country based on IP address, why can’t you selectively show advertisements that have product available in that country and give advertisers the options to choose which country they want to show to?

If you, the studio can release more such videos internationally, the number of advertisers will increase tremendously and so you can charge more per view.

Now, just hope iTunes Videos can be opened up to more countries so that YOU the studio can sell your television shows by the episode through Apple iTunes internationally…by showing this video clips & putting a iTunes link.

Cord cutters are already here, they are just looking at that red words “not available for your geographical region” with utter disgust and the next link they go to maybe piratebay instead.