Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue

Re:Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad ... by michaelmior on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:54PM (#36946357)

AFAIK, Google TV isn't.

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Re:Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad ... by Arrath on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:07PM (#36946513)

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/articles/00279895

Maybe there's a difference between Google TV and an Android TV, but my partner's dad can't buy/rent stuff on Prime Video through his tv, he has to use another device and then can watch it on his tv. He finds it very irksome, to say the least.

My understanding is that this came around by Google insisting on the 30% cut of purchases made in the Prime Video app on the tv, and Amazon told them to pound sand. I could of course be wrong, though.

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Re:Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad ... by jyxent on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:13PM (#36946601)

I think that is a slightly different issue. Google and Apple charge a percentage for any purchases made on their app stores.

The equivalent here would be Prime offering a free ad-supported channel and Google requiring them to hand over a percentage of their ad revenue for the channel.

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Re:Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad ... by michaelmior on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:26PM (#36947575)

I don't think there's any significant difference here between Google TV and Android TV that I'm aware of. I don't think that's a great user experience obviously, but this is different from taking a portion of all the ad revenue which is shown on the device.

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