If it feels such as you spend much more time watching adverts in Prime Video than you used to, that is probably not a mistake. Amazon has elevated the variety of adverts or “advert load” in Prime Video to four-to-six minutes of adverts per hour, Adweek reports. Amazon’s plan to extend the quantity of promoting in its streaming service was previously reported in October 2024.
Shifting to a max of six minutes of adverts per hour is almost double the as much as three-and-a-half minutes of adverts that might play when Amazon first transformed its primary Prime Video subscription to an ad-supported tier. The corporate used to supply all of Prime Video’s options and an ad-free expertise for the price of Amazon Prime ($159 per 12 months / $15 per thirty days) or $9 per thirty days, however announced at the end of 2023 that avoiding adverts would price an additional $3 each month. In addition to inserting adverts, Amazon’s primary plan additionally doesn’t support for features like Dolby Atmos and Dolby Imaginative and prescient.
Engadget has reached out to Amazon to verify the advert load adjustments and can replace this text if we hear again.
No matter your tolerance for adverts, cheaper ad-supported subscriptions have shortly change into anticipated from most streaming providers. Netflix, Max, Peacock and Paramount+ all provide subscriptions with adverts. Even Apple, who may theoretically afford to lose cash on subscriptions, reportedly began building a team to sell ads for a attainable ad-supported tier of Apple TV+ in 2023.
Whereas including extra interruptions to the Prime Video expertise is not what anybody needs, Adweek does word that streaming providers nonetheless insert far fewer advert breaks than broadcast TV. The advert load on conventional tv “usually ranges from 13 to 16 minutes per hour.”
