If we asked you how many streaming services are too many streamers, you would probably at best say a number you can count on both hands. And yet Amazon Prime Video Through its subscriptions, “more than 100” different streamers that you have probably never heard of you can get without having a hundred different logins and passwords.
On Thursday, Amazon and NBCUNIVERSAL announced that Peacock Premium would now be available as a subscription extension via Prime Video. This means that instead of subscribing directly to the peacock, you can get all the peacock content by adding it to your Prime membership (it is priced to $ 16.99 per month and $ 169.99 per year and is ad free). That in itself is not remarkable, but when the peacock goes into battle it leaves Netflix, Disney+and Hulu the only big streamers that you can’t get on Amazon.
HBO Max returned to Amazon for not long after being gone, and Apple TV+ Join the service was a big coup given that the two technical giants are massive competitors and that Apple likes themselves as their own one-stop store for people to stream what they want. Some of the other subscriptions you can add include Paramount+, Fox One, MGM+, Crunchyroll, Starz, Bet+, AMC+and Britbox, to name just a few.
Although it is all streamers who have their own apps that you can subscribe to directly, Amazon also has plenty that does not have their own markings you can download and are only available through places such as Amazon or other channels. One that we previously reported was Wonder Project, Which is the faith -based company behind “House of David”, and today they announced that it will be launched on October 5, just to add hundreds of services.
Because Amazon also offers many of these streamers as part of the bundlesIt makes it so much less likely that you completely cancel Amazon Prime. It also helps Amazon as a brand, because even though Peacock can officially be home to “Poker Face” and “traitors”, if you get access to these shows and HBO’s and Paramount’s entire platform on Amazon, the average user does not even start to see the difference.
Such is the utopian vision of streaming that many managers have long tested that there will be A supersturious to control them all And you won’t have to guess to work to find out what service you actually want to watch (some people used to call this cable). Amazon loses closer to being that leader, but they still have to constitute a lot of ground if it were to convince Netflix and Disney that they need it. Netflix is sufficiently dominant on its own that other studios – including NBCuniversal – continue to license its content to Netflix, and that Netflix does not have to rely on any other bundles to prevent people from canceling. In the meantime, Disney has made great pain (and billions of dollars) to merge the functionality of Disney+, Hulu and the recently launched ESPN Streamer to one place.
But Amazon has to do something right if the peacock even sees the value of pulling his wagon to the big guy.
