TechmemeAmazon plans to increase the number of ads on Prime Video in 2025 after not seeing a sharp drop in subscribers since adding advertisements in January 2024 (Financial Times)
https://t.co/VWlfYYKizI
http://www.techmeme.com/241002/p29#a241002p29
Greg Linden@Techmeme Incrementally increasing ad load until customers leave is how you get a dying product. By the time customers leave, you can't cut ad load anymore because you've promised Wall Street the revenue, which is now revenue on a declining user base, so you have to keep raising ad load, and keep losing more customers. This is well known in the industry, but a mistake companies make over and over again anyway.
echarlie@Techmeme it doesn't help that it's basically impossible to not accidentally sign up for prime if you order through amazon.
I cancelled b/c of the ads (and shipping has been week+ on average with prime for years now), and every time I do try to order I have to click through saying "no I don't want prime"...
DarylSomething@Techmeme *enshittification intensifies*