Amazon has jumped ahead of Apple and Hulu for number of streams from their Amazon Instant Video service. That’s a huge accomplishment and I imagine those numbers will increase with the new Amazon Fire TV being released. If you are not a member of Amazon Prime, you can get 30 days free and see what all the fuss is about!
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SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Apr. 8, 2014– (NASDAQ: AMZN)–Amazon Instant Video today announced that video streams on Prime Instant Video nearly tripled year over year. According to a report from Qwilt, which tracks growth in online video usage, Amazon has now passed both Apple and Hulu in streaming video usage.
“We’ve invested hundreds of millions of dollars in great TV shows and movies for Prime members and it’s working,” said Bill Carr, VP of Digital Video and Music for Amazon. “As part of their membership, Amazon Prime members can watch their favorite movies and television shows on an unlimited basis, and as we add original content like Alpha House, Bosch, The After, Mozart in the Jungle and Transparent, we have no doubt that customers will be even more delighted with the selection available. And now, with Fire TV, customers have the easiest way to access this content.”
Prime Instant Video offers a long list of exclusive and original content available only to Prime members for instant streaming at no additional cost to their Prime membership. The constantly expanding selection of exclusive hit series includes Downton Abbey, 24, Orphan Black, The Americans,Justified, Hannibal, Workaholics, Grimm, Under the Dome, Veronica Mars and many others. Prime Instant Video also offers an exclusive collection of kids’ shows from Nick Jr. that customers won’t find on any other online-only subscription service, including favorites like SpongeBob SquarePants andDora the Explorer. Amazon’s first original series, Alpha House and Betas, can be found exclusively on Prime Instant Video as well, and are among the most popular shows streamed by Prime members. The company announced last week that it will produce four new primetime series, Bosch, The After, Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle, along with two new children’s series, Gortimer Gibbon’s Life of Normal Street and Wishenpoof!, which will be available on Prime Instant Video later this year and next.
In addition to unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of Prime Instant Video titles as part of their Prime membership, Amazon customers can also choose from more than 200,000 titles to purchase or rent from Amazon Instant Video, including movies like American Hustle, 12 Years a Slave,Gravity, Dallas Buyers Club, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen; and day-after broadcast TV shows like The Walking Dead, Scandal,Pretty Little Liars and The Blacklist. Customers can enjoy both Amazon Instant Video and Prime Instant Video content on Fire TV, as well as hundreds of other compatible devices, including Kindle Fire tablets, iPad, PlayStation, Xbox, Wii, Wii U, Roku, TVs, set-top boxes, and Blu-ray players. For viewing offline, customers can download movies and TV shows from Amazon Instant Video, and Prime members can download tens of thousands of Prime Instant Videos to their Kindle Fire HD or Kindle Fire HDX. Prime Instant Video is the only U.S. online subscription streaming service that enables offline viewing.
Just last week, Amazon introduced Fire TV, a tiny box that plugs into your HDTV for easy and instant access to Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, WatchESPN, SHOWTIME, low-cost video rentals, and much more. Fire TV also brings photos, music, and games to the living room. Meet Amazon Fire TV at www.amazon.com/FireTV.
