Amazon's pitch deck shows why it could be better positioned than other video streaming services to help marketers reach rich consumers
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- Amazon has been making a big push into OTT advertising and says in a recent pitch deck for advertisers that 80% of Amazon Fire owners are Prime members, implying it reaches a wealthy audience.
- Amazon also claims that 69% of Amazon Fire owners are college-educated and another 44% are homeowners.
- The pitch differs from those of rivals Roku and Pluto TV, which have recently indicated that people may be getting subscription fatigue.
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The rise in premium, ad-free video services like Netflix and HBO has some marketers worried that they won't be able to find enough high-income consumers. Amazon says that its audience bucks that trend.
Amazon is building an OTT advertising business to rival Roku, Hulu, and other ad-supported services through Amazon Fire, its streaming video hardware. Amazon sells ads in publishers' OTT apps as well as in FreeDive, IMDB's ad-supported streaming service. The company also sells spots during live-streamed broadcasts of sports games like the NFL's Thursday Night Football.
According to a recent pitch deck that Amazon has been using to pitch OTT ads to advertisers, Amazon viewers are lucrative. 80% of consumers who own an Amazon Fire TV device are Prime members, showed one slide in the pitch deck, citing internal numbers. The slide also cites research from eMarketer finding that Fire TV owners are more likely to have a household income of more than $100,000. (The slide didn't give a comparison point.)
Amazon says that 34 million people use its Fire TV streaming devices every month.
Prime memberships come with perks like two-day delivery, access to ad-free original video programming and deals, and are increasingly becoming mainstream in the US. According to a Consumer Intelligence Research Partners survey published in January, more than 100 million people use Amazon Prime benefits, representing 62% of Amazon shoppers. At a cost of $119 a year, Prime also represents a high-income consumer.
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Another slide cites additional internal data that 44% of Fire TV owners have children in the household while another 69% are home owners. Amazon claims that 62% of Fire TV owners are college-educated and 66% of its audience is 25 to 54 years old.
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Amazon's audience represents a hard-to-reach and wealthy audience for marketers. As consumers increasingly pay to avoid advertising or download ad blockers, some of Amazon's OTT rivals like Roku and Pluto TV are taking a different tack in pitching themselves to advertisers.
According to a pitch deck published by Digiday last year, Roku claimed that 87% of its users "are not willing to pay any amount to avoid ads," suggesting that its consumers are not open to a subscription plan.
Other players like Viacom-owned Pluto TV says that people are getting subscription fatigue. In an interview with Business Insider after acquiring Pluto TV for $340 million in January, chief financial officer Wade Davis said that the streaming service is a billion-dollar business that relies on a large group of consumers watching ads for free.
"There is a segment of the market that doesn't want to pay for anything, and we can be their video and entertainment choice," he said.
