No match, no payment. Amazon Prime Video sent an email on Thursday to monthly subscribers to its Ligue 1 pass, where you can find 80% of the matches of each day of the elite, including the main posters of the season as well as the Ligue 2 multiplex on Saturday. , to tell them that their bank account debit will be suspended during the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. A period where the two championships, as well as their European counterparts, observe a break and where the platform will not have a meeting to offer on its channels.
“We are delighted to announce that as a monthly subscriber to the Ligue 1 Pass, the price of your subscription will automatically drop from 12.99 euros/month to 0 euros/month for your payment due date between November 23, 2022 ( inclusive) and December 22, 2022 (inclusive). You will therefore not be charged during this period and the monthly payment will be automatically reactivated as of December 23, 2022 inclusive,” the email reads. Amazon Prime Video had already taken a similar initiative this summer during the summer break, by not draining its subscribers in June and July.
A new annual offer launched this summer
The video-on-demand platform has held the majority of Ligue 1 rights since last season and until the 2023-2024 financial year. The American company had recovered in June 2021 the rights abandoned by Mediapro against 259 million euros annually paid to the Professional Football League (LFP).
In July 2022, after a year of distribution, Amazon Prime Video launched an annual pass, initially available at 89 euros, then increased to 99 euros and currently at 69. But the same month, the company announced an increase the cost of subscription to Amazon Prime, an essential prerequisite for subscribing to the Ligue 1 pass, in France and in four other countries from September 15. French prices have gone from 5.99 to 6.99 euros per month and from 49 to 69.90 euros per year.