@Kalshi Smh blow $100 billion dollars in military strikes, to cost people $100 billion dollars in disruptions to fix countless amounts of infrastructure in a country for nothing... Thanks Trump 🤦🏽
Amazon customers now pay $199 a year for what cost $139 in 2023. And 98% of them don’t even realize they’re the product twice.
Prime membership: $139/year. That used to get you ad-free streaming in full 4K. In January 2024, Amazon added ads to every Prime Video stream. To remove them, $2.99/month. Starting April 10, that jumps to $4.99/month, rebranded as “Prime Video Ultra.” And 4K streaming, which every Prime member had for free until now, gets locked behind that $4.99 tier.
So a household that wants the same experience they had in 2023 now pays $139 plus $60 per year. $199 total. A 43% price increase disguised as a product launch.
Now look at the ad side. Amazon reported 315 million ad-supported Prime Video viewers globally in late 2025. Total advertising revenue across the company hit $68.6 billion that year, up 22%. Only 5.48 million subscribers were on the ad-free plan. 98% of Prime Video viewers watch with ads. Amazon collects subscription revenue AND ad revenue from the same user simultaneously.
Netflix charges $22.99/month for 4K without ads. Amazon’s equivalent costs about $17/month ($12 for Prime plus $5 for Ultra). Amazon looks cheaper on paper. But Netflix doesn’t also sell you laundry detergent, track every purchase you’ve made since 2005, and run the third largest digital ad platform on Earth. The streaming service subsidizes the shopping habit. The shopping data makes the ads more valuable. The ads subsidize the content. The content keeps you subscribed to Prime.
Amazon spent $22.4 billion on video and music content in 2025, closing in on Netflix’s $17 billion pure content budget. They recoup it through four layers from a single viewer: Prime membership fees, ad revenue on streams, the Ultra upsell to remove those ads, and the purchase data that makes every other ad across Amazon’s network more targetable.
No other streamer can stack revenue like that. That’s why they can keep “looking cheaper” forever.
Genuinely how did Keyes not get bad juju from that entire creepy as swamp and setting? "Oh here's Covenant ripped open and strewn about the place and a door desperately sealed with blood, sweat, and tears. Better open it!" What was his PROBLEM?
>Be Clair Obscur Expedition 33 Director
>Flies entire staff who made game to award show ( very small team )
> Thanks Sakaguchi for inspiring him
>Thanks YouTubers for teaching him how to make games
>His less than $10 million budget game destroys any & all competition
Sandfall just embarrassed the entire games industry, they sweeped the Game Awards & rightfully so. Good for them