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Originally Posted by rcentros
“Audible is dedicated to continuously optimizing how we deliver audio programming to listeners everywhere.”
Oh, good grief. I guess if you go in knowing there will be ads in free or discounted Audible books that would be one thing. But, if you paid full price for a book and got ads in it, I don't think that would make you very happy.
Seems to be a trend with Amazon. I think they used to provide TV shows free of ads on Prime, now a lot of them (or all of them?) have been moved to FreeVee (with ads). Maybe I'm wrong on this, I don't watch many of the TV shows, but the ones I've looked at seem to have been moved to FreeVee.
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Freevee started out as IMDb Freedive and then IMDb TV. It's ad-supported, and there is some original content.
I've never seen any ads on Prime Video, apart from promotions for Prime Originals.
Content licensing is subject to churn and it's quite possible that some things were moved over as contracts expire and so forth. But at the same time both services are going to be adding other stuff and other stuff will go away completely.
Getting back to Audible, it used to be a pre-purchase proposition: you paid membership and got to select titles over the course of the subscription term. Audible Plus includes this and an all-you-can-eat selection of titles. And podcasts (some produced by Audible and exclusive to the service).
It makes sense that they would experiment with ad-supported model as well. Everybody else in media streaming that wasn't doing it seems to be doing it now.