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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 8498727" data-attributes="member: 6988941">Indeed, fundamentally with any streaming service it's not about whether people love or enjoy a particular series, it's about whether the streaming provider believes that gaining or maintaining access to that series made a substantial number of people subscribe and/or maintain their subscriptions. Unfortunately for streaming services they don't have access to very good data on what weight a given piece of content had on their subscribership. While the stated reactions of audiences, or positive buzz, may be factors in renewing a show, fundamentally how viewed it was, how often, by how many people is the best indicator they've got.Viewership is an even bigger factor with Amazon than most streaming services, because on  Amazon people's subscription is (theoretically) an annual subscription and tied to a lot of other services, so while, say, Netflix can see some of its users subscribing, watching a particular show, and dropping the subscription until the next season of that show comes out or other patterns of subscription behavior, subscription behavior is generally a lot more static and hard to interpret with Amazon.There are also other synergies to take into account for Amazon. Anytime a book gets a high profile adaptation by anyone Amazon captures much of the profits made from renewed interest in that book, especially if people read it on a Kindle. More importantly, it is no accident that their most expensive series coincided with the holiday shopping season. If they think it inspired a meaningful number of people to give prime a try and then take advantage of their prime membership to do a lot of their Christmas shopping on Amazon, it's going to keep getting renewed as long as that pattern holds.</blockquote>

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