It's not your imagination — you're likely seeing more ads these days. Prime Video, Amazon's streaming offering, has quietly doubled its ads, according to an exclusive report from Adweek. Citing ad buyers and documents it reviewed,

Currently, anyone who signs up for Amazon Prime (which is $15 per month or $139 per year) gets Prime Video with ads. If they don’t want to see commercials, they have to pay an extra $3 per month. One can also subscribe to Prime Video alone for $9 per month with ads or $12 per month without ads.

Amazon is now showing 4-6 minutes of advertisements per hour on its Prime Video streaming service-- double the ad load from when the companynintroduced ads in January 2024,  according to a report from ADWEEK.