Amazon Gives Giant Middle Finger To Prime Video Customers, Will Charge $3 Extra A Month To Avoid Ads Starting In January
Amazon Gives Giant Middle Finger To Prime Video Customers, Will Charge $3 Extra A Month To Avoid Ads Starting In January
Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted. As with most industries sufferi…
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Didn't they just raise the price of prime too?
$120 / yr. to $140 / yr. now +$3/mo, so call it $176 / yr.?
For what was $120 in 2022?
Glad I noped out at $140.
Price timeline
2005 - lanuches at $79
2011 - $79 (includes Prime Video)
2014 - raises price to $99
2018 - raises price to $119
2022 - raises price to $139
2024 - keeps the price at $139, but introduces ads that you can remove for $3/monthSame. Haven’t really missed the content and I don’t mind waiting an extra day for stuff with free shipping.
Yeah the only thing exclusive to prime that is worth more than $5 (one time) is the 80s period show Red Oaks, and it went off air years ago.