Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters are up in arms after Amazon demanded a 30% slice of any advertising revenue that passes through its FireTV devices.

Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps::Australia’s free-to-air broadcasters are up in arms after Amazon demanded a 30% slice of any advertising revenue that passes through its FireTV devices. Financial Review said networks Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS had accused the parcels to showbiz company of a “cash grab” and “rent-seeking”. Amazon has set new terms of services that would require…

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    eh no, most people buy whatever is sold to them. on amazon (which is quite popular) they sell you a fire tv stick

    google does an absolutely terrible job of selling androidtv/chromecasts so people don’t really even know what it is.

    • there1snospoonEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Funny, I was going to reply that I barely even knew what Chromecast is, so you’re absolutely correct.