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It's mostly been explained.
Basically it's content delivery networks. Caching. That ad, from start to finish, has been queued up and loaded and played for thousands of people near you. This is less frequently the case with some show that you're streaming.
It's the same reason that if you were to go watch trending YouTube videos, they will load up a lot faster than if you find some niche YouTube video from 12 years ago that no one's watched in a decade.