Re:Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
by Brendinooo on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:25AM
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Yeah, people get so weird about this stuff. It's TV shows, not food and water. There should be no obligation for anyone to produce and distribute this stuff at a loss.
Price increases are fine. Inevitable, really. I just really hope that in the long term we'll get to keep the month-to-month model and the "pay more for no ads" model.
Re:Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
by missedthecue on Friday September 22, 2023 @03:40PM
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Low interest rates created an exceptionally entitled consumer mindset. It's been interesting to watch it break over the last year.
Odds are near 100% that Amazon has been running Prime Video at a loss since it started. They spent $16B on content last year. They can stop producing so much content or they can find ways to make more money. Either way people will snark about how greedy they are for not running a service at a loss forever.