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Amazon Prime Video
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American video streaming service
Amazon Prime Video is a video streaming service run by Amazon that lets you watch movies and TV shows on demand over the internet. It matters because it's one of the major platforms people use as an alternative to traditional cable television and movie theaters.
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Key facts
- Type of business
- Division
- Type of site
- OTT platform
- Available in
- 30 languages
- Headquarters
- Seattle , Washington, US
- Country of origin
- United States
- Area served
- Worldwide (except Belarus, mainland China, Crimea , Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam)
- Owner
- Amazon
- Industry
- Entertainment mass media
- Products
- Streaming media video on demand digital distribution
- Services
- Film production film distribution television production television distribution
- Subsidiaries
- Prime Video Slate Bray Film Studios
- Url
- www .primevideo .com
- Commercial
- Yes
- Registration
- Required
- Users
- 205 million, (as of August 6, 2025 )
- Launched
- September 7, 2006 ; 19 years ago ( 2006-09-07 )
- Current status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon. The service primarily distributes films and television series produced or co-produced by Amazon MGM Studios or licensed to Amazon, as Amazon Originals, and also hosts content from other providers, content add-ons, live sporting events, and video rental and purchasing services. Prime Video is offered both as a standalone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription. Amazon Prime Video is the second-most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service after Netflix, with about 205 million paid memberships worldwide.
In some places, the service requires a full Prime subscription to access. In the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany, it can be accessed without a full Prime subscription, while in Australia, Canada, France, India, Turkey, and Italy, it can be accessed only on a dedicated website. Additionally, Prime Video offers a content add-on service in the form of channels, called Amazon Channels, or Prime Video Channels, which allow users to subscribe to additional video subscription services from other content providers within Prime Video.
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