It was a matter of time since he announced it in the United States: Prime Video in Spain will start showing ads from April 9 for accounts within your Prime plan. The company has already begun notifying all users via email that, unless they switch to the new higher plan, they will have to watch ads in the series and movies on the platform.
The only alternative will be to pay more, in addition to the price of the Amazon Prime subscription, to avoid seeing ads on the platform. And how much more? Well, the company has announced a higher subscription level for €1.99 more per monthwhose only advantage is that you will not see ads on the platform.
Nothing else changes: if you don’t pay you will continue to have the entire catalog available, at the same quality and with the same conditions, the only difference is the ads. There will also be no changes, for now, in the standard price of the Amazon Prime subscription, so, in reality, it is not an extra plan, but rather an additional payment to not see ads.
If you don’t pay you will see ads, but nothing else changes on Amazon Prime Video
The good news is that if you don’t want to pay, you can still use your Amazon Prime subscription to watch all Prime Video content, including the options you had until now: up to 4K in the available content, downloads through the app and the option to create profiles (and share them, at least for now). Oh, you can also try it totally free:
Try Amazon Prime Video completely free for 30 days and enjoy the platform’s complete catalog without limits. Just by signing up you will have instant access to the best movies and series, as well as free shipping on Amazon and other advantages.
The rest of Prime conditions are also maintained, including:
- Fast, free shipping on millions of items (usually within 1-2 days) and free same-day shipping on select products.
- Access Prime Video, Prime Gaming, etc.
- Exclusive offers and events like Prime Day.
- Over 100 million ad-free songs and podcasts with Amazon Music Prime.
- Fast deliveries on supermarket products in selected cities.
- Unlimited photo storage with Amazon Photos.
- Wide variety of free games with Prime Gaming.
- Hundreds of eBooks and comics with Prime Reading.
The payment to remove ads is added to the standard Prime Video rate and will begin to be charged on April 9, for all those who want to avoid ads. A rate for which, by the way, you can now “reserve”.