Amazon wants to launch a free video streaming service in Germany this year. This is the renamed IMDb TV, which will be called Freevee.
The film and series database Internet Movie Database has belonged to Amazon since 1998, where users can find out for free how many seasons their favorite series has, who is in the cast and much more. Since 2019 there has also been the free, advertising-financed streaming service IMDb in the USA Freedive, which is now called IMDb TV. Now, on April 27, that service will be rebranded to Amazon Freevee. In addition, he should free video service this year also in Germany to start. Here, Freevee only supplements the paid Prime Video and would like to compete with users who watch series and films free of charge on YouTube, as is the case in the USA.
What is there to see on Amazon Freevee or IMDb TV?
According to Amazon, a number of originals should also be available on Freevee. For example, there will be a free spin-off for the Amazon Originals series Bosch on Freevee. On the other hand, if you want to see the Amazon series Bosch, you still have to have a subscription to Prime Video. Freevee shows classics like Columbo, Alf, Detective Rockford, Dallas, Boston Legal, 24, Murder is her Hobby and Desperate Housewives. Offered alongside the originals Amazon Freevee in the US currently has 8,200 movies and 1,512 series. With the paid streaming service Prime Video, users in the USA can access 14,567 films and 2,760 series.
In order to finance themselves, advertisements are placed on Amazon Freevee or IMDb TV before and during a running program, which cannot be skipped. If you pause a series or a movie, the commercial breaks are marked in the timeline. A film has between five and twelve commercial breaks, according to Amazon. With the start in Germany, Amazon is competing with the video streaming services Pluto TV and Joyn, which have relied on advertising-financed, free streaming from the start to set themselves apart from Prime Video & Co. Prime Video is available either as an individual subscription or as a Prime membership for EUR 69 per year.
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Collection for the upcoming Amazon Freevee:
- Amazon has announced that IMDb TV will soon become Freevee. This is a free, ad-supported video streaming service.
- Amazon Freevee should also be available in Germany this year. In the US, users can access a library with rotating content. The current 1,512 series include classics such as Alf, Columbo, Detective Rockford and 24. There are also 8,200 films, such as Final Destination or Knives Out.
- Some Amazon Originals are also said to run on Freevee. For example, there will be a spin-off of the Amazon series Bosch, while the Bosch series will continue to run in the paid Prime Video subscription.
- In order to finance themselves, advertisements are placed on Amazon Freevee or IMDb TV before and during a running program, which cannot be skipped.
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