Amazon Brings Direct Commerce to Prime Video
With Prime Video reaching 130 million Americans, Amazon is rolling out direct commerce: the option to add items from a streaming ad directly to your Amazon shopping cart. The plan is to feature hyper-relevant, AI-powered contextual advertising so that ads will seem a “natural extension” of whatever you happen to be watching. Amazon will also introduce “pause” ads that will show branded content when you hit, guess what, pause (Prime subscribers can evade these pleasures by paying an extra $3 a month).