Tag: Amazon
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Amazon Spent Almost $19 Billion on Content in 2023
While other media companies cinched their purse strings, Amazon shelled out a lot of money on content in 2023. According to a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission, Amazon spent a whopping $18.9 billion on video and music in 2023 — a 14% increase from the $16.6 billion it spent in 2022. The expenses also…
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The New Fire TV Stick 4K Max Is On Sale For Just $39.99 & You Get 6 Months of MGM+ Free
Need a new Fire TV? Good news both the new Fire TV Stick 4K Max and the Fire TV Cube are on sale. The new Fire TV Stick 4K Max has 16GB of storage, WiFi 6E, and a quad-core 2GHz processor. The biggest improvement any will notice is the remote, which is the same one…
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Amazon Says the Audience for Thursday Night Football on Prime Video Grew 24% As Earnings Surged
Amazon said that the total viewership for NFL Thursday Night Football rose by 24% over the previous season, with the November 30 game between the Seattle Seahawks and Dallas Cowboys marking a high point with 15.3 million viewers. The numbers came out of Amazon’s fourth-quarter earnings report, in which the company posted a profit of…
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Amazon’s Fire TVs Will Ditch Android For a New Operating System
Since Amazon started to make tablets and Fire TVs, they have run an altered version of Android. Back in November, we learned that Amazon was building a new OS to replace Android called Vega for multiple devices, including its tablets, smart speakers, and Fire TVs. Now we can confirm that the Fire TV move away…
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Amazon Made Its Fastest Delivery Ever Last Year
Amazon reached a new milestone in its attempt to provide customers with faster delivery speeds last year — all while getting a last-minute order delivered just before Christmas. The last Same-Day delivery order placed on Christmas Eve happened at 5:00 p.m. PT in Orange County, California, and was delivered less than three hours later, arriving…
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Why Amazon Believes Prime Video is More Than Just a Streaming Service
While you may associate Prime Video with hit shows such as The Boys or Reacher, Andrew Bennett wants you to know it’s so much more. Bennett, vice president and head of video partnerships for Amazon, wants to convince both its users and partners that Prime Video is more than just a streaming service, but a…
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Amazon Ends its Plans to Buy iRobot The Maker of Roomba Vacuums
Today, Amazon announced it will not buy iRobot, the maker of the Roomba Vacuums. This comes as Amazon faced multiple efforts to stop them, including a serious push from the EU to block the real. Back in September Amazon said that it would now pay $51.75 a share, below the original $61-per-share price, to account…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Now Includes Ads Unless You Pay More – Here is Everything You Need to Know
Did you wake up to ads on your Amazon Prime Video service? You are not alone as Amazon now includes ads for all Prime Video customers unless you pay extra. Back in September of 2023, Amazon announced that in 2024 it will be adding ads to its base Prime Video plan. Now if you want…
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Judge Judy’s Amazon Freevee Streaming Show Strikes Deal to Head Back to Regular TV
Amazon Freevee’s Judy Justice with Judge Judy Sheindlin returns to broadcast TV this fall as the series lands a syndication deal with more than 100 U.S. markets. Amazon MGM Studios and Sox Entertainment signed a multi-year broadcast syndication deal with stations in more than 100 U.S. broadcast markets. Reruns of the show will air in…
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Amazon Exec Says Prime Video Will Show Fewer Ads Than Rivals, and Make Adjustments When Needed
Starting next week, Amazon Prime Video will feel dramatically different thanks to the introduction of ads. But don’t expect a static experience, with one Amazon executive promising that the company will be monitoring the user data and quickly make adjustments as needed. “We’ll take a more iterative approach,” Andrew Bennett, vice president and head of…