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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
We previously learned that this change was coming for Prime members, but now we know exactly when our streaming dreams will die.
Streaming services once offered a vision that TV and film content could thrive on a subscription model, offering users premium content for a low monthly fee, free of ads.
Prime was the last major streamer to hold off on introducing ads, but now it has followed the other media giants.
In a subscription model, a streaming service’s viewers are the customers: they fund the company to see premium content.
However, in an ad-supported model, the customers are the product: Prime Video has premium (wealthy) viewers that are now sold as a demographic to advertisers and Amazon has tons of data on what its subscribers like to buy.
The only major difference from cable now is that streaming services are algorithmically curated to your preferences.
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