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Amazon Prime The Latest Streamer To Charge More For Ad Free Access
They call it Amazon Prime, and it's going to come at a premium - or would that be Prime-ium?
Either way, if you're a subscriber to the retail giant's streaming service, be prepared to shell out an extra few bucks for an ad free experience, as the streamer confirms it will be adding commercials to its regular tier in 2024. The announced price so far is only for U.S. subscribers - an extra $3 a month.
The company says other countries - including Canada - will find out what the commercial-free experience will cost them in a later announcement coming in the New Year.
"The company added that the decision was made in an effort to "continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period time." It vowed to have "meaningfully fewer ads" than other streaming TV providers and linear TV."
This is just the latest service to up the ante for its video "spot remover." It will be up to subscribers to decide if either version is worth the price.
Amazon Prime Video will start running commercials starting in early 2024
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It's so fragmented now, I don't see people giving up more money. With all the rate increases, the people/streaming companies who wanted to fight piracy have just encouraged it.
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pinto wrote:
It's so fragmented now, I don't see people giving up more money. With all the rate increases, the people/streaming companies who wanted to fight piracy have just encouraged it.
I like to believe somebody's gonna buy out somebody one of these days,
decrease streaming options, hopefully without decreasing choice.
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decrease streaming options, hopefully without decreasing choice.
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The new so-called "limited ads" add was announced in September. But the official debut of the annoying intruders has now been confirmed. There will be words from their sponsors starting on January 29, to - according to Amazon - allow them to keep making the kinds of programs you expect from the streamer.
But of course if you don't want to see those ads, there's an out - it will cost you an additional $3 a month to avoid them.
It's not exactly killing the Golden Goose, but one of the main attractions of a streaming service was to pay a fee to watch high quality original programming without the interruptions. Those days, it seems, are going not the way of the goose, but the dodo. And with prices for services already adding up, they may only be hurting themselves.
Prime Video Ads Are Coming On January 29, Amazon Announces To Subscribers
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