Forum - View topicNEWS: Amazon Prime Video Launches Ads in U.S. on January 29
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malvarez1
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Super lame.
But I guess it’s been working for Tubi. |
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ChibiGoku
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I mean, Tubi is free, Amazon Prime Video isn't. There's a key difference here.
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Top Gun
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I enjoy how the entertainment industry has successfully managed to recreate the cable experience, only now you're paying a dozen different companies instead of just one.
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ZelosZoidberg
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I wonder how much some of these companies spend on marketing alone. Surly they can do other stuff with that money like R&D or better pay for their workers that are not executives. I mean, some companies like Coke don't even need to advertise because their products sell themselves and/or don't ever change.
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LinkTSwordmaster
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Indeed, Louis Rossmann over on Youtube has been doing some good "consumer education" coverage of this sort of "thinning of the soup" for a while. You essentially create a unique service, get folks hooked on its usefulness, and then once you have concurrent paying users, start cutting corners and watering it down to continue to make a profit that you once did in the past at the speed that everyone was originally joining. The issue with such predatory/late capitalism is that there is a finite number of people willing to spend money and a finite amount of free time for each of those individuals. Netflix didn't report any major losses when they started doing stuff to their service, but it's widely considered a killer app for TV media. I don't think Amazon has the sort of library to qualify, so I'm interested to see how the market responds to this. Sad part to all of this sort of scummy business is that these apps had previously made legal viewing of shows easier than any alternate options. If the alternates become easier again, then I'm going to bet that the next frontier of media viewing/crackdown is going to be content identification on private-party streaming apps. |
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MrPuzzles
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I genuinely wish them good luck with that. |
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catandmouse
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Gee, what happened with “free, ads” & “you pay, no ads”?
The whole point of you paying was so you could slip the annoying ads. At least with tv and cable, the commercials are a bit more varied, but on streaming, you’re saying the same ad over and over again. And they cap on cable TV for being expensive. Streaming is getting to be as expensive as regular cable tv. |
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Vanadise
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I was thinking about dropping my Amazon Prime subscription anyway. This sounds like a good excuse to do so!
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flamemasterelan
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I mean...no. This isn't Netflix. Nobody's paying for the streaming service; the UI's terrible, the selection of free titles is mediocre at best, and there are only a few exclusives worth watching on it. Most people paying for Amazon Prime are paying for the free shipping and other Prime bonuses like free delivery from the grocery store, Audible and Kindle bonuses, etc. Prime Video is just a tertiary bonus, if that. A $3 upcharge for ad-free watching for the few people who actually use it and care about ads isn't really that big a deal, tbh. Last edited by flamemasterelan on Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:53 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Kadmos1
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O.K., if you are a non-subscribing member to an official streaming service, I agree with the ads. If you a subscribing member, don't do adds. It should not be that hard to grasp.
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Sorraffy
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same here, they keep increasing Prime pricing, prime shipping used to just be a few days (I ordered something the day after Christmas and new prime shipping is getting it to me in 9 days), and ... I just don't watch a lot of prime video. Might at least do a "trial cancel", cancel it and see after a month or so if I've noticed I don't have it anymore. If I don't notice it's gone, i didn't need it |
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Glordit
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Remember when streaming was supposed to eliminate the issues, we all had with TV?
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MarshalBanana
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This is ridicules. They already raised the price of Prime, now they want to add extra charges. I would like to say that I will cancel it. But sadly it has, for me at least, a better selection of Films than most of the other services.
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anifani
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I have Amazon Prime for the free shipping, and rarely watch anything they stream. I order often so it pays for itself. The streaming was just a bonus, however, I do hate ads!
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mdo7
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And Amazon already have their own ad--supported streaming, anyone forgot about Freevee? I mean it doesn't make sense for Amazon Prime Video that you paid a subscription for to have ads included when Amazon already has that for Freevee. If they wanted people to watch stuff with ads, do it via Freevee but leave the paid Amazon Prime subscribers out of the ad. This is why my hate in my love-hate relationship with streaming has greatly increase for the last few years. |
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