Amazon Prime Going to Ads

[Mark Jeffries]

Beginning next year, the fee you pay for free two-day delivery and other things will give you ads on Amazon Prime (although they say only four minutes an hour)--an extra $2.99 a month will give you no ads (and of course, Amazon's FAST service Freevee continues with ads):

https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-prime-video-ad-tier-cost/

Which leaves AppleTV+ as the only major streamer that's totally commercial-free (except for MSL soccer)--it should be noted that Peacock and Paramount+'s movies do not contain ads, as well as HBO programming on Max (which includes HBO's movies).  Hulu does put ads in the first half-hour of films, with some exceptions.

[PGage]

Any idea how many minutes of ads per hour there are on Freevee?

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[Brad Beam]

There’s three commercial breaks in the 2013 era of Neighbours that I’m currently watching, and they usually run up or 90 seconds in length.

 

As for 60-minute dramas, YMMV.

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[PGage]

So, if we could extrapolate that would be 9 min of ads per hour for free tv thru Amazon, 4 min of ads per hour for $15/month, and 0 min of ads for $18/month. By that measure the extra $3 to eliminate the last 4 min of ads is a pretty good deal.

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[Mark Jeffries]

Since I first posted this, I've seen that Amazon says that the ads will come before the actual program starts (and I assume you can't fast forward them).

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[Bob Jersey]

Peacock doesn't allow FFing breaks unless with some archived programs, but I've only tried it with Dan Patrick.

I hope the Zon uses some of this increased revenue to improve the supposed audio issues with Thursday Night Football...

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Mark Jeffries, eventually to his OP, Sept 23rd: