Comment on Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 10 months agoIs twitch or prime video even profitable? I’m pretty sure twitch isn’t but prime might be just due to locking people in to making their e-commerce purchases on amazon
merc@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
It all depends on Amazon’s accounting, and whether or not they want it to be profitable.
They can pretend that people are subscribing to prime just for the videos, and then it becomes profitable. Or, they can pretend that people are subscribing to prime for the shipping, and prime video is just a loss-leader they use to encourage people to subscribe.