The free with ads program let video creators add videos to Amazon Prime Video and make them free to non-prime members who are willing to watch them with ads. (The videos would also stream ad-free to Prime members.) Many YouTube creators and even some larger studios have used this program to move their videos over to Amazon Prime Video. Now though that is coming to an end later this month.
Here is the email Amazon just sent out to their partners:
Amazon has not commented on why they are ending the free with ads program. It is very possible Amazon sees this as a way to push more Prime subscriptions. It is also possible Amazon just decided the small number of people using fee with ads did not make it worth their time.
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