{"id":1879,"date":"2025-05-19T11:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2025-05-19T22:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:06:46","slug":"amazon-prime-video-availability-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/win\/amazon-prime-video-availability-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime Video availability info"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Context<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"\/fail\/netflix-availability-info\/\">Netflix not highlighting content that&#8217;s leaving their service<\/a>. These days, Netflix and their competitors make that information prominent. It often appears on the home\/index screen of the service and on the title\/info screen of the movie or show. I like to think that designers have read that post and practice my suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, I visited Amazon Prime intending to rent <em>Anora<\/em>. The title screen noted that it would soon be available on for free. I appreciated that information. Amazon, in effect, lost a small bit of revenue by dissuading me from paying for a rental. They enhanced my perception of their service, though. It made their (soon-to-be) free library seem more appealing.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div><a href=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon_prime_video_anora_1.jpg\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon_prime_video_anora_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>This image shows the main\/index screen of Amazon Prime Video. This instance includes <em>Anora<\/em> and indicates that it&#8217;s coming to the service as free content. The indicating text is prominent because of its placement and color. The wording itself is deliberate. It re-iterates the name of the service and states a countdown instead of a specific date and time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<div><a href=\"\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon_prime_video_anora_2.jpg\"><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-content\/uploads\/amazon_prime_video_anora_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/div><figcaption>The coming-soon information on the title screen has the same design and text as the main\/index screen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember whether it&#8217;s common for video-streaming services to promote incoming content. They might not have contractual permission, but it would be another useful practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context I&#8217;ve written about Netflix not highlighting content that&#8217;s leaving their service. These days, Netflix and their competitors make that information prominent. It often appears on the home\/index screen of the service and on the title\/info screen of the movie or show. I like to think that designers have read that post and practice my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,34,18,9,21,5,35],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-win","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-netflix","tag-squint-test","tag-ui","tag-ux-design","tag-ux-writing","tag-video-streaming-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timtanhuynh.com\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}