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Amazon Prime Video starts showing ads in January unless you pay $2.99
/month extra

Avatar for Ben Schoon Ben Schoon | Dec 26 2023 - 1:02 pm PT
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After announcing the change in September, Amazon has today confirmed
in an email to Prime members that Amazon Prime Video will begin
showing ads alongside content unless customers pay an additional fee
starting in January 2024.

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Amazon Prime Video is a perk of the overall Prime subscription which
is best known for offering free shipping from Amazon. Prime Video has
historically offered its library of content ad-free, but that will
change in about one month.

In an email to customers, Amazon confirms that ads will begin showing
on Prime Video starting on January 29, 2024. Previously, Amazon said
the change would take place in "early" 2024. Customers can avoid ads
by paying an additional $2.99/month on top of their monthly or yearly
Amazon Prime subscription.

Amazon's email reads in part:

    We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your
    Prime Video experience. Starting January 29, Prime Video movies
    and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow
    us to continue investing in compelling content and keep
    increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to
    have meaningfully fewer ads than linear TV and other streaming TV
    providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change
    to the current price of your Prime membership.

The email goes on to list the other benefits of Prime, as well as
teasing "additional features and programs added in the future."

As of today, Amazon is also opening up "pre-orders" for the ad-free
subscription. Through Amazon's website, customers can pre-emptively
sign up for the $2.99/month subscription before the change actually
takes place.

Amazon Prime currently costs $139/year when billed annually, or
$14.99/month. Prime Video on its own runs $8.99/month.

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