Amazon already operates a very successful streaming service with Prime Video. With Amazon Freevee, another new offer has now started in Germany – and it’s even completely free.
Amazon’s Freevee streaming service isn’t entirely new. The offer is already available in the USA and Great Britain under the name IMDb TV, but is now also available in Germany with a new name. Amazon Freevee, as the streaming service is called in this country, started on August 3, 2022 and was completely free of charge. It is financed by advertising.
Amazon Freevee is free but shows ads
As announced by Amazon, the renaming of IMDb TV to Amazon Freevee took place on April 27th. The previous offer has been available in the USA since 2019, and it also started in Great Britain in September 2021. According to its own statement, Amazon has registered enormous growth in advertising-financed video streaming services (AVOD) in the past two years. “We look forward to continuing this momentum with a growing offering of original and diverse originals, and establishing Amazon Freevee as the leading AVOD service with content audiences crave.”
With its advertising-financed concept, Amazon Freevee is competing with services such as RTL+ or Joyn in Germany. They also allow free access, but display advertising in return. So far, the impressions have been limited, which is also emphasized by Ashraf Alkarmi, head of Amazon Freevee, who has spoken of “limited advertising” several times in the past. Users must therefore expect a maximum of nine minutes of advertising per hour. At the same time, Amazon Freevee also has some specially produced series that make the streaming service attractive.
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Exclusive movies and series on Amazon Freevee
Since the service already exists, it already has its roster of series and movies. In 2022, however, they want to expand the range of originals by 70 percent, according to the streaming provider. Right from the start, for example, there is a spin-off of “Bosch: Legacy”, the longest-running Amazon original series to date. Also new and exclusive are the home design series Hollywood Houselift with Jeff Lewis, the comedy series Leap, and High School, a series based on the best-selling memoir by Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling artists Tegan and Sara Quin based.
Amazon Freevee is also announcing some exclusive titles in the film segment. This includes the romantic comedy Love Accidentally, in which Alexa (Brenda Song) and Jason (Aaron O’Connell) compete for a promotion at their advertising company. By chance, they start an anonymous relationship via text message, not knowing who the other really is.
In the area of documentation, Amazon Freevee also lists exciting titles. These include sports documentary UNINTERRUPTED’s Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers, spy series Alex Rider, music documentary Luke Bryan: My Dirt Road Diary, and also the wacky True- Crime documentary “Bug Out”. With “Judy Justice” there is also a court show with television icon Judy Sheindlin. The streaming provider has already ordered a first season with 120 episodes for them. There are also nine live channels on Amazon Freevee, including BBC Food, Top True Crime and BBC History