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Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by troyvit »

alex_toms wrote: post #3

Interesting how every subscription business is slowly turning to the traditional ad-supported model. People might refuse it, but ad-supported is one of the most efficient business models on both the consumer side and business side. Allows more customers to access a service, for free, with the same quality. Plus, every company needs marketing, and even consumers need it. It allows us to notice things we might need in…

> Imagine having to pay for every single service/website we use daily

I'd love to. If we lived in a world where micro-transactions were simple and inexpensive I would love to pay (how much it costs to serve me my content)+(20% overhead for profit). At least my money would be going to the publisher.

There were/are a few companies out there that, for a monthly subscription price, give you paywalled content. They sucked because they were selective about that content, but the idea of paying a clearing house a monthly fee, and having a piece of JS on _everybody's_ site that recognized me and provided the content with no ads and no tracking actually makes me want to take off my tin-foil hat and embrace the internet panopticon.

Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by edgyquant »

gdulli wrote: post #78
edgyquant wrote: post #39

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>There's a necessity in society for some form of advertising Objectively false

The best concert I ever saw (Nightmares on Wax) was one I only knew was going to be in town from a TV commercial. I don't follow concert news. I realized recently that I only ever see blockbuster movies anymore because I've hardcore eliminated advertising from my life. I don't know what movies are coming out anymore if they're not huge and mainstream. That's kind of a bummer. Movie trailers were one kind of commercia…

Nevertheless, that doesn’t make them a necessity

Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by prepend »

inversetelecine wrote: post #89
dazc wrote: post #34

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Same thing with the music industry fighting torrents for years until finally accepting that people will gladly pay a fair price.

Except, they still fight torrents.

Do they? I haven’t heard of Metallica suing any single moms into bankruptcy in over a decade.

I think they are focusing their efforts on YouTube takedowns and stuff.

That and there’s very little music piracy due to Spotify/etc

Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by tomjen3 »

vel0city wrote: post #81
tomjen3 wrote: post #72

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If I want to know what movies are playing, I can ask the cinema. This is far more effective for the both of us. If I want to know who is running for election, this is similarily available. As for social issues? Being able to afford to make noise has proven a drastically inferior barrier than I need.

If I only know about what movies are coming out is by asking the cinema, I'm probably going to miss out on a lot of movies I'll probably enjoy, unless I make quite the habit of asking the cinema on a very regular basis.

I don’t know why you think that would be the case, I am interested in history so I get the news letter from the local museum.

Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by jackthetab »

vel0city wrote: post #84
jackthetab wrote: post #61

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Old man yelling at clouds here. These same arguments were brought up with cable TV back in the day; one of the benefits of cable TV, we were told, was there wouldn't be any ads since we were paying for it. "There's nothing new under the sun"...

> one of the benefits of cable TV, we were told Who told you that? Cable TV had ads on practically every channel for the first 30 years of its history, since it was just collecting and transmitting all the local broadcast stations. And even when cable-only stations came out, they often had ads. The second cable-only TV station, TBS, had ads from day one! HBO was an outlier because it didn't have ads. It wasn't the no…

I pre-date cable TV. There was a debate amongst the adults whether the community should allow cable TV in, given the infrastructure and tax costs involved.

Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by vel0city »

jackthetab wrote: post #97
vel0city wrote: post #84

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> one of the benefits of cable TV, we were told Who told you that? Cable TV had ads on practically every channel for the first 30 years of its history, since it was just collecting and transmitting all the local broadcast stations. And even when cable-only stations came out, they often had ads. The second cable-only TV station, TBS, had ads from day one! HBO was an outlier because it didn't have ads. It wasn't the no…

I pre-date cable TV. There was a debate amongst the adults whether the community should allow cable TV in, given the infrastructure and tax costs involved.

Cable started in the 1950s, just so you know about pre-dating cable TV. And for the first 30 years there were no cable-only stations. So you'd then know, there were ads on cable from the start, so I don't get why you have this "we were told there would be no ads", since you saw for thirty years there were ads on it.

Re: Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024

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Post by vel0city »

tomjen3 wrote: post #94
vel0city wrote: post #81

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If I only know about what movies are coming out is by asking the cinema, I'm probably going to miss out on a lot of movies I'll probably enjoy, unless I make quite the habit of asking the cinema on a very regular basis.

I don’t know why you think that would be the case, I am interested in history so I get the news letter from the local museum.

So you're subscribed to their marketing letter, aka getting their ads. Still a "push" action. That's fine and I think that's good advertising.

And I think that's the case because that's my life experience, today. I know far less about movies playing at the theater because I'm at the theater less for other reasons. I don't see all the trailers and posters and displays for upcoming movies, I don't get that information thrown at me anymore, so I don't know any of it.

I didn't used to have to try to find movies I'd like. Now I do. Why? Because I consume fewer ads.

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