Amazon Prime Video squeezes indy doc makers over returns

The science and commercial logic of internet stats are not your friend - as providers to Amazon Prime Video are finding out.
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Image: Poster for Surgery Ship. This is how National Geographic deals with marketing a confronting Australian documentary series. 

According to Digiday, Amazon Prime Video has dropped its payment rates on documentaries and also created a new entity called CER which will determine payments in some markets. Peter Hamilton’s Documentary Television did a cogent version of this announcement but neither quite grabbed the larger significance of the moment. 

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