Amazon Debuts First Original Show With Ads

Amazon just debuted their first show with ads this week, which will live outside of the Amazon Prime paywall and will be free for anyone to watch on Amazon.com. The new show, called "The Fashion Fund" is a 10-episode reality series following top fashion design contestants as they compete for a $400,000 prize. According to Recode, Amazon's foray into ad-supported programming "could signal that the company's increasingly powerful media business is set to create a host of exclusive ad-supported shows that are available to everyone, Prime member or not, for free." Read more on what this might mean for the company here.