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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 jghn »

m_eiman wrote: post #70
rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

Agreed. I'm somewhat furious at Apple for having ads for their other shows before showing me what I've selected to watch on Apple TV+. Is there any way to disable that?

I actually don’t mind this - there skippable, not disruptive to the show itself, and sometimes I learn about a new to me show I want to watch.

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

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Post by phone8675309 »

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.

Amazon was advertising during the football game last night that they could aggregate your subscriptions to at least Amazon Prime Video, Max, Paramount+, and AMC+ so you could get content from all of those platforms in the same place.

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

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Post by transcriptase »

rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

Find me an unbranded pair of basketball shorts that will last 10 years, have consistent sizing, and cost less than $20 at an outlet and I’ll gladly buy them.

I could gamble on “YAWHOHOMELIFE Men's Running Workout Shorts Training Gym Athletic Joggers Sweat Short Pants Quick Dry Breathable with Zip Pockets”, or pay like $5 more for a little white embroidered check mark and the aforementioned benefits without needing to trial a bunch of junk from companies that won’t exist in a year.

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

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Post by ilyt »

swexbe wrote: post #59
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.

Nor sure why anyone would expect somwthkng else. Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv, production might be slightly cheaper but not because of streaming. Shareholders still want the same roi. Everything being VoD is a pretty nice feature though.

> Streaming doesn’t make things any cheaper than traditional tv

Streaming is oodles cheaper than owning traditional TV station.

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

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Post by rendall »

mumblemumble wrote: post #75
rendall wrote: post #48

I flat out do not watch ads. If a platform has ads, I do not watch it full stop. I pay YouTube for no ads. If I lost that option, I would not watch YouTube. Same with all of the other streaming services. Netflix pushed it last year with preview rolls. It was barely acceptable/tolerable. But I will eagerly jettison any service that makes me pay for ads. Heck, I even look askance at people who willingly pay money to un…

It's signaling. Wearing prominent logos sends yourself and others a message that you have the disposable income to pay twice as much for a version of the thing that has a special picture on it.

Yes, agreed. It still does not explain the practice in a way that makes sense to me. There are so many and much better ways to signal disposable wealth. To me it immediately signals "more money than sense".

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

gdulli wrote: post #56
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.

> Just look at where cable TV is. With a cable DVR you can arbitrarily control the video stream. You never have to watch an ad if you don't want to. Amazon won't let you conveniently skip these ads. Streaming was always going to be about losing that freedom. Cable companies weren't bold enough to take that away, or it never occurred to them. The last time I had Spotify installed, it wouldn't even credit me with havin…

Even putting aside the ubiquity of tech like this: we had a particularly busy year and I ended up traveling a lot more often for work than I usually do, and it was insane to me how many fucking ads are in television now.

Mind you I was a from the go cord cutter, when I left my parents and spread my wings, I never once wanted cable. I had it through them and it was... fine. Certainly not worth the absurd prices it goes for and as such, I have never, ever had it. In general my interests are niche too so even OTA TV is just not interesting to me. I watch YouTube, my iTunes library, and a plex box for... other stuff. That's it.

And it just blew my mind, I'm doing some work in the hotel room and I want some background noise, so I flip on the TV and... ads. Ads ads ads ads ads. For every 30 minute block I would say it's 55/45 between content and ads. And endless parade of medications, medical devices, lawyers promising to get you more medicare money, shitty fast food, how to lose all the weight you gained from eating the shitty fast food.

And the repetition. Oh. My. Lord. Like I genuinely can't tell if this is just because I haven't watched TV to any extent since I was living with my parents during schooling, but I do not remember the mix of ads being so lean. Or maybe it's because they're running more of them, I don't know. But I swore over the course of a week long hotel stay I saw a particular ad for Wendy's at least a hundred fucking times.

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

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Post by rz2k »

sarchertech wrote: post #19

As long as they have an add free option for a reasonable price I’m fine with it. It seems likely that with the money they are spending on shows streaming isn’t currently profitable. Looks like $2.99 extra a month gets you no ads.

At some point advertisers are going to say they don’t want to reach people who don’t pay the $2.99, and eventually the ad-free tier will become “limited ads”. Why would Amazon leave all that money on the table? Even PBS has about a minute and a half of “major corporate funders” ads on their nightly news.

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

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Post by ilyt »

nblavoie wrote: post #10

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

I have no problem paying for content, I pay for Spotify and video games, but I refuse to pay for video until company delivers a non-DRMed video file to my hard drive that I can watch where and how I want.

Piracy is a service problem, as Gaben says so it is.

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