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Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Re: Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year

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Post by lsaferite »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #16

I'm willing to buy Blu-Rays. I'm also willing to stop watching "content" altogether. I'm already hating the experience of the forced unskippable ads for Paramount shows that play at the beginning (AT MAX VOLUME) of every Paramount+ channel stream (Star Trek... sigh). If I have to watch ads like regular network TV, which I now find unwatchable, I'd just have to do without.

Yeah, the recent NFL ads are obnoxious. I don't like sports. I never watch sports. I avoid sports related content. Forcing me to watch an ad for NFL before every episode of a show is beyond annoying. I think I've hit my limit and will be researching running my own content library now.

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Post by mmahemoff »

It’s funny how blatantly every streaming service waits for Netflix to do anything bold before doing same thing.

It’s like what happens when Apple does something like removing headphone socket. Backlash from the loud minority “I’ll never buy another iPhone again”. then every competitor quietly follows.

(In Australia, Binge app – the main local streamer with HBO shows etc – also started ads a few months ago, with a higher ad-free tier.)

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Post by kervantas »

nblavoie wrote: post #10

And those companies wonder why piracy is back on the rise. We have been duped.

I cancelled nearly all my subscriptions and set up an old notebook at home with Jellyfin and qBittorent + search plugins. Pretty simple and satisfies my needs.

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Post by aqme28 »

catach wrote: post #13
nblavoie wrote: post #10

And those companies wonder why piracy is back on the rise. We have been duped.

Is piracy on the rise? That seems like a difficult thing to reliably track.

Anecdotally, I've found myself doing it again. I used to when I was young, but totally stopped up until about a year ago. Illegal streaming sites have become impressively good. Better UX than Netflix.

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Post by reaperman »

sarchertech wrote: post #14
hef19898 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Streaming just came full cycle to traditional TV broadcasting. An impressive feat of disrupting an industry right there.

You need a streaming aggregator for the cycle to be complete.

It splintered enough at the end with cable vs. DishNetwork vs. DirectTV. i remember specific local sports games only being on one and then another.

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Post by happytoexplain »

alwaysrunning wrote: post #17

I was surprised that Prime is ranked 3rd according to 2022 data from Statista, I almost never watch anything on it but watch several channels through it and wonder if that counts towards their stats. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1368336/video-streaming-...

If I get in mind to watch a movie or show that's not a popular current series, I find most of the time that only prime has it, or prime and some streaming service that I'm not going to add to my stack of subscriptions just for one movie/show, especially because nowadays thanks to my experience with Hulu, it takes a little research to tell if I'm going to get ads even if I pay for the service, and I'd rather not spend that time.

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Post by bombcar »

sarchertech wrote: post #14
hef19898 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Streaming just came full cycle to traditional TV broadcasting. An impressive feat of disrupting an industry right there.

You need a streaming aggregator for the cycle to be complete.

I’ve noticed that the Apple TV app on Apple TV drags in content from other apps somehow.

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Post by 1980phipsi »

mmahemoff wrote: post #22

It’s funny how blatantly every streaming service waits for Netflix to do anything bold before doing same thing. It’s like what happens when Apple does something like removing headphone socket. Backlash from the loud minority “I’ll never buy another iPhone again”. then every competitor quietly follows. (In Australia, Binge app – the main local streamer with HBO shows etc – also started ads a few months ago, with a hig…

Still made about the removal of the headphone socket though...

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Post by dudefeliciano »

brunoqc wrote: post #12
yffi_bit wrote: post #2

This is equivalent to shrinkflation: pay the same, get less. Streaming platforms want to retain most users, but also extract more value from them. Slowly a new threshold for what's "normal" is set, and perhaps then -more- adds can be added. There's no need to speculate where things go from there. Just look at where cable TV is.

enshittification?

this was also my first thought after watching the DEF CON talk: An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification[1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4

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Post by bombcar »

BoxFour wrote: post #20
alwaysrunning wrote: post #17

I was surprised that Prime is ranked 3rd according to 2022 data from Statista, I almost never watch anything on it but watch several channels through it and wonder if that counts towards their stats. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1368336/video-streaming-...

I had a similar curiosity and just inquired about it at work. It turns out there's quite a bit of children's programming (possibly exclusively) available on Prime Video, which could be at least one reason for its popularity among families.

It’s huge but getting worse.

There used to be large swaths available on Prime but it seems reduced, and you might as well just watch it on YouTube directly.

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