Category: Amazon News
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Hits Prime Video & Other Streaming Services With 3 New Songs
Prime Video, Vudu, and a host of other streaming services are celebrating Taylor Swift’s birthday by debuting an extended version of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on December 13, which includes three bonus songs not shown in theaters. The extended version of the concert film will be available to rent on Prime Video on December…
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Deal Alert! Amazon’s 2023 Fire HD 10 Tablet is On Sale For $50 Off – Stream Netflix, Hulu, Sling TV, & More
Looking for a great tablet that will let you use many of the popular streaming services you pay for? Want one that won’t break the bank? Right now, the 2023 Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet is on sale for just $89.99, down from the list price of $139.99. This is a great HD tablet with…
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Amazon Tests a Flat Rate Fee For Unlimited Grocery Delivery
Amazon is trying out a new subscription plan for unlimited grocery delivery and pickup for Prime members in select cities for $9.99 a month. Customers who sign up for this grocery subscription tier pay a flat rate of $9.99 per month for deliveries from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods for orders over $35. Regardless of…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Is Getting Ready to Add Ads For All Subscribers – Here is Everything You Need to Know
Back in September, Amazon announced that in 2024 it will be adding ads to its base Prime Video plan. Now if you want to continue to get the ad-free experience you have now, you will have to pay extra. Now, Amazon has partnered with IPG Mediabrands to help manage these new ads. This partnership will…
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Amazon Backs Off as Premier League Signs Historic $8.5 Billion Deal Without Streaming
Amazon opted not to be part of Premier League’s historic $8.5 billion media deal, making it one of the few recent sports TV agreements that doesn’t include a major streaming component. England’s top-tier soccer league signed four-year agreements with Sky Sports and the U.K.’s TNT Sports, securing the domestic rights through the 2029 season in…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Will Start Streaming Live Boxing Matches
Prime Video and Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) announced a multiyear rights deal to stream 150 events. With this contract, Amazon and PBC will stream pay-per-view boxing events in the United States, with the first fight slated for March 2024. Additionally, in the United States and select countries, Prime Video will exclusively stream a PBC Championship Boxing series…
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Amazon Freevee Adds 16 Live Channels From Warner Bros. Discovery With More Coming Next Year
Today, Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a deal that will add 16 new Warner Bros. channels coming to Freevee’s growing lineup of free live channels. They also announced more free channels would be added in early 2024. Freevee is owned by Amazon and offers over 400 live TV channels and thousands of movies and…
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Amazon Internet Service Taps SpaceX to Help With Satellite Launch
Amazon on Friday said it signed a deal to use Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets to help launch satellites for its Project Kuiper internet initiative. The contract calls for three of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches to carry Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellites, which are necessary to beam down internet connectivity. Amazon had already purchased 77 rockets launches…
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Amazon Has 8 Useful Accessibility Features Available on Prime Video, Alexa, and Other Amazon Devices
Amazon has been working with disability and accessibility experts to design features to help those with disabilities more effectively use Prime Video, Alexa, and its other products. The Audio Description feature plays a spoken audio track that describes what’s happening on the screen. For people who are blind or have low vision, the accompanying audio…
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NASCAR’s $7.7 Billion Media Deal Launches Racing Into the Streaming World
NASCAR reached several new media rights agreements for the NASCAR Cup Series with FOX Sports, NBC Sports, Prime Video, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT Sports that are worth a combined $7.7 billion. The deals will give the sport a major presence on both traditional TV and streaming. Starting in 2025, FOX Sports will get the…