Fast-forwarding to avoid commercials is called zipping.
Zipping is the practice of viewers fast-forwarding through advertisements when watching a pre-recorded or leased videotape—is one of the most urgent issues facing television advertisers today. Although the impact of zipping on the effectiveness of advertising is unknown, advertisers are concerned by it.
In order to be able to pause fast forwarding in time for the show to resume, viewers may actually give greater attention to commercials while zipping. According to research, there is a lot of zipping going on, which lowers the audience size for ads much below that for programming. Block zipping, which involves zipping two or more advertisements at once, was found to be the most common zipping activity.
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