Amazon Prime Video: Ads for TV & Movies to start early 2024; Ad-free service an extra $2.99 US/month
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Idk. We've had threads on here where people ask what products they bought from instagram or podcast ads and plenty of people chimed in. ads work better than you'd imagine
Prime Video is my least-used streaming service, and also my least-liked, because of its shitty UI. The primary reason I have a Prime subscription is faster shipping. But I can't even remember the last time I needed something really quick, so fuck it. I just cancelled my subscription.
The even worse thing is the cheap knockoffs from China that get sold under new accounts that are just……..shitty knockoff items. Plus they don't guarantee release day delivery, and now ducking ads during shows??
Pretty sure I'm gonna cancel……and use my moms account lol
Pretty sure I'm gonna cancel……and use my moms account lol
Can I just get a cheaper version of Prime without Prime Video or Music or Kindle Unlimited? I know it won't happen but it would be nice.
We wanted a la carte cable...we got it tenfold.
As said before, my family is just swapping passwords until the Corps crackdown like assholes.
AppleTV+
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEB5iD67nZI
As said before, my family is just swapping passwords until the Corps crackdown like assholes.
AppleTV+
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEB5iD67nZI
Prime Reading is included, not Kindle Unlimited. Kinda the same concept, but it's not the same books. Some overlap, but different libraries.
Kindle Unlimited is an extra $12/month.
Sorry, meant Prime Reading. Which is different from Kindle Unlimited somehow?
You don't have ads in the middle of your shows and movies though, that's what's being added. lol
Well they utterly fucked the music this year and they're about to do the video so yeah, they're 2/3rds of the way there.
Oh you said cheaper.
This is bullshit, for as much as I pay for prime I should have ad free TV. They did the same thing with the prime music plus bullshit.
Geez, these companies are just going to ruin their own sub models. In the last year I've gone from paying for HBO, Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+ and Prime to next year paying for Paramount+ and Disney+.
I can't be the only one.
I can't be the only one.
Musk is paying for it along with many other famous people who refused to pay. That tells you a lot about Muskrat.
I canceled my Prime. Was barely using the service anymore. Shame every one of these companies are terrible these days.
He's not actually paying though. It doesn't cost the company anything to make someone verified. lol
Agree 100%. Excellent programming. Todd's Weiner-Dog was dynamite (Spike's Chi-Raq, less so, but at least he got paid nicely.)
Ads pay the bills.
Everyone laughed at Musk for pissing off advertisers and wrecking Twitter's business model. And that is just shitty in line text ads. Amazon not running ads during TNF is just throwing money away.
You might want to look into those models. They were losing BILLIONS on the sub model. Maybe Netflix can survive with no ads like HBO managed to when all the cable channels brought in ads.
Everyone laughed at Musk for pissing off advertisers and wrecking Twitter's business model. And that is just shitty in line text ads. Amazon not running ads during TNF is just throwing money away.
You might want to look into those models. They were losing BILLIONS on the sub model. Maybe Netflix can survive with no ads like HBO managed to when all the cable channels brought in ads.
Assuming this information is true, losing half your install base devalues your ads and decreases revenue from said ads. At a certain point losing subscriptions in favor of ad money won't balance out either. Just look at network TV, cable is down so much that ad revenue on channels is tanking causing networks to greenlight less and less shows, leading to additional cable cancelations etc.
I just don't see increasing prices over and over for these stream companies being the answer. These CEOs and boards are just looking at immediate cash flow with very little regard to long term business, which funny enough is how they found themselves in this situation to begin.
I guess I can't be too surprised. They moved a ton of the content they had on Prime behind the ad-supported Freevee banner, and then made it almost indistinguishable from Prime video in searches. Plus this is the same company that tried to put their anime behind an additional paywall until that blew up in their face.
maybe the thing to do for most of these services is to remove the upfront fee entirely. Peacock is NBC, Paramount is CBS. People don't pay for those channels.
I think Amazon is doing this because they have seen the success of FreeVee and how many views and revenue those shows bring in vs how much Prime is bringing specifically for streaming. I think very few people would say they have prime primarily for streaming.
Running ads next to shows should allow Prime to bring more shows and movies onto the service since they will be more self sustaining.
Anyone happen to know if canceling annual membership gets refunded unused months? I'm only seeing option to cancel at renewal date.
Still cheaper than cable at this point. Can have several streaming services an a sports service and not have a $150 a month cable bill
Doesn't work that way. You paid for a year so if you cancel it just doesn't refund next year.
If anyone was wondering, I online chatted with CS and they were able to refund me unused days so I got about 90% back from annual fee.
On another note, yea I rarely buy anything from amazon these days and most of the time I ended up renting the movie.
Hmm that is weird, my gf tried to refund hers when we moved in together and they said no. Might be because you had just renewed recently? Hers was over half done already.
My wife and I have accepted that ads are back and here to stay. I'm not sure what caused this seismic shift. Streaming prices have shot up, but why? We've cancelled the majority of our streaming services and set one to ad tier. Only Netflix will be ad free. I canceled Spotify as well. I tell myself it's like it was growing up. Maybe that ad induced nostalgia factor will help.
P.S Looking forward to the Halloween commercials.
P.S Looking forward to the Halloween commercials.
Why are prices rising and/or ads becoming prevalant? Because they were and are spending boatloads of money on a hope and a prayer that it would somehow become profitable.
Btw dude knows. He's just trying to catch the other guy in a pretzel to get him banned. It's like a game.
First they up the price from 69.99 to 89.99€ a year for prime. Now I will have to pay extra because ads will be introduced to my sub? Of fucking course.
WOW(Former Sky Ticket) also not too long ago randomly introduced a Premium sub on top of the movie and tv subs. Meaning stuff that was included now got moved to the new additional tier that is like 5€ extra a month. It includes 1080p and ad free viewing, wtf.
I canceled the stupid premium tier immediately. Gonna have to watch in 720p with ads now I guess.
Every service just milking the customers for everything they can now.
WOW(Former Sky Ticket) also not too long ago randomly introduced a Premium sub on top of the movie and tv subs. Meaning stuff that was included now got moved to the new additional tier that is like 5€ extra a month. It includes 1080p and ad free viewing, wtf.
I canceled the stupid premium tier immediately. Gonna have to watch in 720p with ads now I guess.
Every service just milking the customers for everything they can now.
Yeah, no shot. Easy cancel.
EDIT: Oh shit, I actually got a partial refund too. Well, that's cool at least. Still not paying extra to avoid ads.
EDIT: Oh shit, I actually got a partial refund too. Well, that's cool at least. Still not paying extra to avoid ads.
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