I find it hard to get too upset about this since Prime Video is just a throw-in bonus that I’m not paying for. Even if it didn’t exist I’d still be subscribed to Amazon Prime.
Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour
Submitted 10 months ago by bimbimboy@lemm.ee to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/
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FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Name does not check out
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 months ago
Why not? Because I don’t care about ads in a service that’s just thrown in as a bonus to a service I already pay for and would still pay for even if they got rid of it?
What’s that got to do with freedom?
Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Oi Ue, it’s fooking diabolical mate. Omelander topped me wife and now more ads on the tele, diabolical.
antisocialite@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Gotta pay for all those crappy movies they make starring Dwayne Johnson.
rodneyck@piefed.social 10 months ago
Dwayne Johnson playing the same character in all his movies. Acting range = 0.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 10 months ago
It’s crazy how much money that cunt makes for the shittiest movies imaginable. Somehow people like that guy too.
Auli@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
His movies make money.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
He’s made some genuinely good stuff though, Jumanji was far better than I ever expected.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m bored with him. But The Rundown is an awesome and underrated flick.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m old, so many may not relate. I remember when the big selling point of this newfangled “cable TV” thing was zero ads. Can you imagine that?
Yeah, I have Prime for the savings on shipping. Got the Kodi addon for watching Prime, never used it except to watch The Expanse a few years ago. Would have been fucking enraged if I had seen ads cut into that. Fuck am I paying for?!
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 10 months ago
Some time ago i found a old VHS of karate kid that i recorded. That was on free open tv and the commercials were super short. And i think two for the whole movie. I downloaded some trash tv like 60 day fiancee, and it was accidentally an episode where they left the commercials in. That was the most insane shit i have ever seen. They streched a 45min show into a 1 1/2 hour show. With the same pharma commercials over and over all the goddamn time and then the recap after every commercial. This shit has to rot your brain in some capacity.
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The worst are reality show “result” episodes. Seriously, you’re doing a two hour special with extra ads, all about recaps, when the only goal is to announce who won last week?
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve had the same thoughts about people who watch free to air TV. Between the same set of ads every ad break, and the frankly dubious quality of the programming, it has to be contributing to some type of cognitive decline.
kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I have Prime too for shopping mainly. I also can’t use Prime Video because it refuses to go beyond 480p on Firefox for Linux (Atleast last time I tried).
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think about this all the time. Kids today have no experience of the media without ads. Like we had commercials, but imagine Mr. Rogers stopping his show every 5 mins to sell you athletic greens and test boosters.
This image has a totally different context today then when it was first created
Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 10 months ago
imagine Mr. Rogers stopping his show every 5 mins to sell you athletic greens and test boosters.
Or imagine the Flintstones advertising cigarettes to kids in the middle of the show.
Or comedy shows named after the sponsoring toothpaste company with sponsor breaks throughout.
Sure it’s gotten really bad lately, but mass media has always been rife with obnoxious advertising, both in-your-face and subliminal. The early days of Netflix streaming were really the anomaly as far as access to non-pirated ad-free media. The broadcast TV generation had their coping mechanisms with the mute button and eventually DVRs, but “media without ads” has basically never been a thing.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 months ago
Actually for my kids at least it’s different. They’re so used to ad blocked YouTube and ad-free Netflix. That when the adblocker fails for whatever reason they get first delighted to see something new and very soon after annoyed at having to see that shit all the time and cry for someone to help them.
We watch regular TV so little. The other day we didn’t have internet for several hours, maybe a few days. That’s when we discovered that the TV is actually too far away to reach the cable of the satellite dish.
timetraveller@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I prefer the obvious product placement in old movies, tv shows. How funny it is to see product placement all over the place on the kitchen shelves of Seinfeld, the sugar cookie of Honey I Shrunk the Kids.
The list could go on.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Fucking weird, isn’t it? Another rant would be about where is all the advertising money coming from?! Imagining being a buyer, I’d have to wonder how well my spend would be profiting.
A couple of decades ago I played around with being a salesman. Top advice was to try this ad, try that ad, compare results. Surely these people are finding revenue from spending on these ads? It just seems impossible to me that there’s profit for all of these cockroaches.
gdbjr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cable tv wasn’t invented to have zero ads . The original selling point of cable tv was to provide broadcast tv to those that couldn’t pick up OTA broadcasts.
Auli@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What. Cable has only been available in cities and you could get the OTA Chanel’s.
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I feel like you weren’t there, in that time and place. Or maybe you were in some weird pocket where OTA wasn’t available? Can’t remember anyone bitching about lack of antennae service. Yeah, it could be sketchy, but I think most of us could drag in ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Amazon is clearly struggling financially, and needs the revenue. Think of the starving investors!
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
They can crash on my couch, if they need to.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Let’s start a donation campaign for them…
reddig33@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Still less than cable/broadcast which runs fifteen to twenty minutes of ads per hour. Given time, I’m sure streaming will catch up.
Tanoh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just a matter of time until you can’t chose what to watch on the lowest tier, you have to follow their playlist of what you should watch.
And we have come full circle back to broadcast TV
bimbimboy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Exactly, I miss more ads in my lie. Amazon is truly lacking.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Trying to recoup the lost from spending too much on ROp series
huquad@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I recently did the same on my jellyfin server. 100x the ads actually.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ll do you one better. I’m upping the ads on mine by 1,000,000x.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 10 months ago
You know what ? I’m starting a Jellyfin only to stream all the ads !
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nice I love it. We didn’t stop ads years ago. Content creators deserve to be paid right guys. Right!!
Auli@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I mean yes they deserve to get paid. Do you do stuff for free? I mean it’s funny how people complain about ads but nobody is willing to pay for anything.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, people create stuff online without getting paid all the time. We literally built the Internet that way. Go back to the early days forums, blogs, dumb memes, personal websites, fan videos none of that was about money. People made stuff just to share it, to be part of something, or just because they wanted to.
It’s only after financial incentives got introduced ads, sponsorships, “influencer” money that everything started getting worse. Suddenly it’s all algorithm-chasing. Everyone’s copying each other, following trends, tweaking thumbnails, timing posts. The content got way more polished, surebut also way more boring. It’s all the same stuff over and over.
So yeah, people deserve to get paid if that’s what they want. But pretending like people only create if they’re paid is just wrong. Humans naturally create. Always have. We write songs, we draw, we tell jokes. Money didn’t start that, it ruined it. It made it a job. It made it about likes and reach and SEO. It turned the internet into a shopping mall.
Now everything online feels fake. Safe. Recycled. All because the moment you attach money to something, people start optimizing for profit instead of originality. That’s the trade-off.
TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Fuck them, I’m not paying for ads, let alone paying more for more ads. I already got rid of my prime months ago, I need to stop supporting amazon anyway.