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Amazon doesn’t really count as it’s an added benefit of Prime.

However, all of those you listed are cheaper than adding cable to my bill.

I pay for Netflix, Hulu and YoutubeTV. It’s cheaper than adding cable to my bill & that’s just absurd to me.

I just cancelled my Prime subscription since it’s $120 and it seems to just be increasing so they can make more tv shows. Super annoying.

Are you suggesting that it doesn’t count because you assume everyone has a Prime subscription?

It’s estimated that 62% of households in the US have Prime subscriptions.

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/new-survey-estimates-amazon-pr...

Amazon Prime Video is not the same as Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime has nowhere near 62% (since 101m is less than 1/3 of the US population). If we're talking "households", that doesn't pan out either since the average US household has 2.6 people, right now. I would be willing to say these numbers aren't concrete, but they are closer to the ballpark of reality than a 62% market penetration when I can ask all my coworkers at a well-known company and 25% have Amazon Prime...and these are people with disposable income that allows for it as opposed to people working out of an airport in Minnesota.

Everyone who had Amazon Prime has Amazon Prime video. Should we base how many people who have Amazon Prime on your anecdotal experience at “the company you work for”? Do you have a better citation?

We also don’t have to guess the number of households in the US. We have the Census.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/HSD410217

Around 119 million.

This isn't the point OP was making, but I don't think Amazon counts. Not because "everyone has prime", but because you can pay them extra money to add content to their platform. For example, you can pay to add British content, CBS, or HBO. Amazon is doing streaming right.

I don’t think that’s a good reason. HBO will likely not be an add-on in near future. Hulu allows you to add Showtime too.

CBS or Showtime have a good chance of not remaining with both products. Once CBS merges with Viacom [again]. Showtime and CBS’s new parent company will have to decide what to do about their streaming future.

Edit: Hulu has add-one for HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and Starz. Hulu obviously counts so then Amazon should count too.

You are paying for it with Amazon just bundled into the overall price. Probably 10% more.

That's why cable costs so much the bundling of various properties adds up. For now streaming inventors are eating the cost but they expect that to change by 2024.

It’s easy to put a nominal value on Amazon Prime Video. Amazon sells it separately for $6.99 a month. Whether it’s worth that is an exercise for the reader.

Any of them individually, or all of them together? If the latter, then wherever it is you live, you have some ridiculous places for cable TV there.

Together, the cheapest plan I could add that would actually give me the shows I watch is around ~$50 additional, so it’s about even.

Not taking Prime into account cause I use other prime features more-so

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