Forum - View topicNEWS: Amazon Prime Video to Run Ads for U.S., Other Subscribers in 2024
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NikamiYuhara
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Is the ad-free 2.99 addition for the "Amazon Prime Video" sub or the "Amazon Prime" sub?
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PipimiOden
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fudge. There goes my once in a blue moon Shaun the Sheep/Mofy rewatches. At least they're both on YouTube in multiple ways but the same can't be said for everything else on there and especially all the anime stuck on that little piece of hell.
Edit: I just realized Monkie Kid seasons 1 and 2 are also stuck in prime jail. Pain. Last edited by PipimiOden on Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:22 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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mdo7
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Heard about this last week, and I find this plan very stupid because Amazon Prime Video already has a ad-supported streaming service that served alongside Prime Video, did they forget their own Freevee serve a similar purpose (Amazon by the way also juice its Freevee free streaming service with 100+ Amazon Originals this year and next year).
So what's the point of putting ads on Prime Video when they already have this for Freevee? I'm baffled by this ever since this announcement. Instead of putting ads and charging an additional $2.99 on Prime Video, why not make the same Amazon original contents available on Freevee as an alternative?
It's for Prime Video, and as I said, it doesn't make sense to me at all since Amazon already has Freevee. Last edited by mdo7 on Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:36 am; edited 3 times in total |
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penguintruth
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Greedy motherf***ing c**ts. What is the point of subscribing, at this point? I am so sick of corporate greed.
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Wyvern
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"No commercials" was one of the two main selling points of streaming. Now that's gone.
The other one was "look how much content there is" and they're rapidly killing that, too. |
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Key
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 Posts: 18435 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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I'd be more accepting of this if Amazon Prime's streaming video service wasn't one of the worst of any major site out there (at least in my experience). Their player glitches, lags, has the subtitles slightly out of alignment, or even outright freezes more often than anyone else's, and they have titles that they list but are "video not available" when you actually try to call up an episode. Sadly, one of my favorite series of the last several years (RE:CREATORS) is only legally available through APV; I'd dump it entirely if not for that and one or two other hard-to-find-otherwise titles.
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Glordit
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Remember when streaming was meant to be cheaper, have more variety, replace TV and remove all the annoying ads?
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LegitPancake
 Posts: 1311 Location: Texas, USA |
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In the US it is impossible to subscribe to Prime Video alone. You have to pay for the full Prime experience, which my family does annually, and because of this change we would have to pay $36 more per year just for ad-free streaming. |
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TheAncientOne
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It has to be nearing the end of its licensing term, as has happened with some of their other titles. It would be nice to see it pop up on Hidive with a dub, as has happened with some other former Amazon licenses.
It isn't impossible, but it is far from obvious. They certainly want people in the US to pay for the full ride. |
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Key
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Posts: 18435 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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I dearly hope you're right. If Sentai ever does acquire it and release it on BD, I'd pre-order the most premium version they offer in an instant. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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I really wonder how much each company spends on marketing because it's clearly too much. How about lowering that budget and pay your employees a living wage?
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zawa113
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Have they all forgotten why we were all so excited for streaming in the first place? On demand with no ads. This is like having cable, but worse.
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MarshalBanana
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How does this, I already get an ad at the start of each Film at present, are the ads going to be unskippable now?
They already put the prices up this year, shouldn't that be what covers the cost of removing ads. Greedy [expletive] bastards. Amazon Prime was a pretty good alternative to Netflix, more Films and less original content flooding the services, all at a cheaper price. Now they not only want more money but also a fee to remove something that wasn't there before. This is just a case of moving the goal post, it went from watch with ads being the free version and watch without ads being the paid version. Now watch with ads is the paid version. |
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MarshalBanana
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db999
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While everyone is understandably annoyed about this it’s pretty much confirming to me that streaming services don’t actually make any money and that the services are bleeding the companies dry. That coupled with the fact that the resolution to the SAG and WGA strikes might necessitate or include better residuals from streaming, although it’s probably just the companies being greedy, we might see ad tiers for streaming services become the norm. And while I know tons of people are completely allergic to and despise ads, especially if they’re already paying to use the service, depending on how they’re used it might not be so bad. For me as long as they don’t just play the same 3 ads over and over again, and as long as the ads are less than 2 minutes, I don’t think it will be that bad. I think what's going to happen is the ad-free tiers are going to get more expensive and the tiers with ads are likely going to stay on the cheaper end because ad revenue was how companies used to make money before streaming became a thing.
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