Commercials On Amazon Video (Why & Can You Remove?)

Amazon is an important player in the electronic commerce space. Amazon offers millions upon millions of products, along with on-demand streaming services and upgraded tech tools.

Amazon Prime might have shown you advertisements before some of your favorites shows. What are the commercials? And how can you get rid of them? Let me tell you what I found out after doing some research.

Why Does Amazon Prime Have Commercials In 2022?

Amazon Prime Video has a lot of advertisements that promote IMDB TV, Amazon Prime, or other commercials. Amazon Prime Video does not allow customers to opt out of these commercial advertisements, making it a frustration.

For more information about Amazon Prime streaming or how to manage your advertising preferences, please continue reading.

Amazon Prime: How Do Commercials Look?

Amazon Prime Video contains more than Prime productions. Amazon Prime also includes tv and movies from other partners. However, they’re not labeled very clearly.

That’s why there’s often confusion as to which ads are showing up and why.

Although it might look like Amazon Prime ads, in fact, this is a commercial for IMDB TV and other partners such as Starz, Showtime or Lifetime Movie Club.

Amazon is continuing to release new streaming content. This includes a deal that allows you to stream Universal live-action movies for up eight months from the time they were released.

Amazon is required to promote its streaming partners. Because they aren’t Prime productions the advertisements are treated as separate.

Amazon also appears to show ads in movies/tv series on the platform.

This frustrates members, as Amazon Prive Video (which is paid-on-demand) is very similar to Netflix.

Can You Control Amazon Ad Preferences

Amazon Prime streaming is similar to Amazon shopping.

In your Amazon account you can modify your preferences by selecting your device from the “manage all your content” menu.

You can click on “remove Offers” to update or delete your account. To get the benefit, however, you will need to upgrade to a premium account.

However, after some digging, this only seems to work some of the time. Amazon may be able bypass this setting to get IMDB titles on Amazon’s platform for free, or even Amazon Prive video original titles.

Customers are understandably furious because Amazon has produced record-breaking products the past several years.

Update: Prime Video’s ad-blocking feature seems not to be functioning anymore. If you have found a fix, please comment below.

Amazon: Is it the Only Streaming Site With Ads

Amazon is quickly catching up with Netflix for streaming audience size. This often comes down to the advertising experience and what programs viewers are interested in watching.

When deciding between the various streaming platforms, remember that Amazon doesn’t have the only commercials.

Hulu utilizes ads to maintain its subscription cost.

A variety of membership tiers can be used to lower ads. It is very popular on streaming sites.

So, although Amazon Prime Video’s commercials for upcoming movies and TV shows may surprise you, these previews aren’t exclusive to Amazon.

Many streaming services offer ads in some way, for either general products or TV/movie content.

Although you have the option to upgrade your membership, at the end it is all about which content offer you prefer.

Commercials On Amazon Video (Why & Can You Remove?)