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Disney+ is Disney’s new streaming service, created to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and the recently released Apple TV Plus. If early numbers are any indication, Disney+ is set to be a huge success, with the streaming service amassing over 10 million subscribers in its first day …

Since the streaming platform was absorbed by Amazon, the Twitch Prime subscription has offered a range of goodies, from a free channel subscription, exclusive in-game content and even games themselves. The main reason people often made sure to continue paying, however, was the ability to view content without advertisements which …

Amazon’s signature “next day delivery” has been under fire from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) since last December ever since complaints arose surrounding the accuracy of its self-titled promise. Now, it seems the investigation has deemed the retailer to be falsely advertising its One Day Delivery option, and will force …

At the end of February, Amazon-owned Twitch announced that it would be giving more to its Prime subscribers, allowing members to vote for the indie title they wanted to receive each month with its Twitch Prime Indie Amplifier program. Now, Prime members are getting even more, as Twitch has announced …

Amazon shifted the ecommerce front when it introduced its “Unlimited One Day Delivery” Amazon Prime service, but many are complaining that the service isn’t being met. This has drawn attention from the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) and could lead to the possibility of an investigation. Out of the plethora of …

While Amazon’s strategy for drawing in English speaking crowds to its Amazon Prime Video service might involve live-action shows like The Grand Tour and Mr Robot, elsewhere in the world it’s using animation to do the same. In India, Amazon has acquired the exclusive rights to a number of popular …

This week has seen many publications announce that the Amazon Prime exclusive, Top-Gear inspired show, The Grand Tour, has become the most pirated show in history. However it turns out that that’s far from the truth. Whether numbers have been misread, monitoring firms misquoted or a little sensationalism are to …

Over the last couple of years, Amazon has been finding new ways to draw people over to its Prime subscription service. Right now, Amazon Prime packs in faster delivery, video streaming, Twitch benefits and eventually, Amazon may also offer its own Prime Internet service. According to reports this week, Amazon …

Although you might expect that announcing a paying option for a service wouldn’t exactly drive people to sign up, that’s exactly what’s happened with Amazon’s gaming stream service, Twitch. After the announcement of Twitch Prime, concurrent viewer numbers have gone up by as much as 13 percent over the ensuing …

As much as digital streaming companies like Netflix and Amazon have offered us more content in the past few years than has ever been so easily accessible before, one major frustration remains: geo-blocking. However in the future we may all have the same content available, as the European Commission (EUC) …

It’s beyond obvious at this point to say that streaming on-demand content is how a large majority, if not all media will be consumed one day and we’re well on our way it seems. How and where we’re watching our content is changing because of it, so much so that …

Recently, Amazon Prime Video announced that it would be allowing its users to download shows for offline viewing, similarly to how Spotify allows subscribers to listen to their music playlists offline. This obviously raised questions for Netflix, which has been against offline viewing in the past. It turns out that …

Where the ex-hosts of Top Gear would go once the existing contract between James May and Richard Hammond and the BBC ended, has been one of the hottest topics of contention among industry analysts and fans of the show for months now, following the firing of Jeremy Clarkson after a physical …

Amazon made the unpopular decision last year to put a minimum spend on free delivery. It seems that Amazon becoming less willing to foot the bill for postage as it has doubled the minimum spend requirement from £10 to £20 in the UK to qualify for free delivery. Amazon has …

Amazon has announced its new subscription tiers for its online storage service, ‘Cloud Drive’, with one of the options offering up unlimited storage. Those with Amazon Prime or owners of an Amazon Fire device will already have access to unlimited photo storage, but now two extra tiers are available to …

If there was any indication that Amazon considers Netflix one of its biggest opponents in any industry, it’s this. In 2014, the retail giant pumped over $1.3 billion (£860 million) into its streaming service, Amazon Prime Instant Video, helping to fund new programming like the award winning Transparent. This cash …

Amazon’s Prime membership has even more value thrown in now that Amazon has officially launched its rumoured music streaming service with more than 1 million songs available. The service is only available in the US for now and Amazon hasn’t mentioned anything about a UK launch just yet. That said, …

Amazon have made a change in America to their Prime service which allows a portion of customers to subscribe on a monthly basis, rather than pay for full year. The PRIME service is popular with regular Amazon customers as it can save them a large amount of money over the …

Reports from the Wall Street Journal are surfacing that Google may be going to challenge Amazon’s Prime service, launching sometime in 2012. Google reportedly want to set up a service which would allow their customers to receive products bought online within a 24 hour period. Like Amazon Prime, it would …

Amazon are launching a new digital book loaning library that will be made available to their most important customers – Kindle and Kindle Fire owners who also subscribe to the Amazon Prime delivery program every year. According to the WSJ, the new service is going to be focused on titles …