Amazon sunsets Freevee platform for ad-supported s...

Amazon is closing down Freevee, its free ad-supported video on demand service. This platform was house to unique programming in addition to greater than from the Prime Video roster. Freevee can be phased out over the approaching weeks, and its content material will change into out there as a part of Prime Video. The ad-supported tier of Prime Video is included as a part of Amazon’s Prime membership for $15 a month.

“To ship a less complicated viewing expertise for patrons, we now have determined to section out Freevee branding,” an Amazon spokesperson informed . “There can be no change to the content material out there for Prime members, and an unlimited providing of free streaming content material will nonetheless be accessible for non-Prime members, together with choose originals from Amazon MGM Studios, quite a lot of licensed motion pictures and sequence, and a broad library of FAST channels – all out there on Prime Video.”

The free viewing platform went by way of a number of rebrands since its unique launch as IMDb Freedive in January 2019. It its ultimate section as Freevee in April 2022.