Analyst: Freevee's End Comes as No Surprise
Amazon's announcement it will end its free ad-supported Freevee streaming service is no shocker, as Freevee clearly was living on borrowed time since early this year when Amazon made ad-supported Prime Video the default tier for U.S. users, TVREV's Alan…
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Wolk posted Friday on LinkedIn. Few viewers were even aware of Freevee's existence, since to many it seemed like an extension of Amazon Prime Video and not a freestanding service, he said. Accordingly, Freevee's ending should make the Prime Video experience less confusing. He said Prime Video competitors should be concerned about Amazon's huge ad-supported subscriber base, the data it has available, and its built-in platform to sell other goods to those subscribers.