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
      424·
      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.ca
        English
        162·
        2 years ago

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

        • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          16·
          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
        111·
        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
          19·
          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

        • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          12·
          2 years ago

          You guys just keep throwing everything in the same pot. I don’t like Amazon and don’t even have an account.

          To raise the price (by 3 measly bucks) for a service that doesn’t make money is something a listed company IS REQUIRED to do. That’s all I am saying.

          It has nothing to do with how much money the company makes in other areas and is a completely separate issue from the horrible working conditions, which is a political one.

          But i guess it’s easier to just cry about everything while still throwing money at them and then jerking each other off because you commented “aMaZon SuCks”. Talk about the right side of the fence

            • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              21·
              2 years ago

              Exactly, of course there a correlation between the two but they must have gotten to a point where Prime Video sign-ups don’t boost their regular Prime user base anymore, so they had to do something about Prime Video operating at a net loss.

              As i said before, Prime Video was never intended to be a “free” addition to regular Prime forever, this is something everyone should have seen coming.

              Thanks for your kind words, to have an actual debate about this is all i wanted instead of reading the same, undifferentiated bullshit that seems to take over Lemmy more and more…