Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing adds during shows and movies early next year, joining other streaming services that have added different tiers of subscriptions.

Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them::Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing ads during shows and movies early next year.

    • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Prime Video isn’t profitable and they need it to be. They included it with Prime to build a user base but they were always going to charge or make you watch ads after that. And that’s perfectly fine because running a service that’s never going to make any money is fucking stupid.

      If you don’t like it, don’t pay but stop with that “big corp makes enough money so keep giving me shit for free” bullshit.

      Would love to read your pitch for a streaming service that doesn’t charge money and doesn’t show any ads though

      • Grant_M@lemmy.caEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        The multi-billionaire owned Amazon (A company that pays no taxes) already charges for their service.

        • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          They charge for Prime (Delivery) and until now, Prime Video was included in that price. I hate Amazon as much as the next guy (don’t even haven an account) but all i read from you guys is exactly this kind of unconstructive rambling.

          What the fuck do you expect? That a listed mega corporation just goes like “Oh you know what we make billions, what does it even matter if one of our services doesn’t make any money, let’s just keep going, not like we have shareholders to answer to”.

          Remember when people used to pay 5 bucks to rent a VHS for ONE DAY and no one lost their mind about it? Without constantly whining about Blockbusters profit margin?

          But thanks for clearing up that Amazon is a billionaire owned company, only read that for the 500th time this week.

      • didntwemeetin2007@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        Sure, but pointing out that this strategy of carpet pulling isn’t the best consumer feeling is valid. And, um, Prime isn’t free.

        • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Not what they pointed out though. It’s just the usual, mindless big corp rant you can’t escape on here.

          Existing Prime users got all this content without additional charges for years, that’s what I meant when I said free but you probably know that. If you think that’s a sustainable way to keep producing content for billions of dollars, it’s very naive imo.

          But feel free to point out what would have been a better strategy and maybe actually start a discussion