L4sBotAmazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them
ApeNo1“Amazon gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2023 was $244.974B, a 18.22% increase year-over-year.”
Poor company. I can see how they have been forced to do this as a last resort effort to salvage their struggling corporation.
glimpseintotheshitPrime 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
Sure, but pointing out that this strategy of carpet pulling isn’t the best consumer feeling is valid. And, um, Prime isn’t free.
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