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Ranging from late October, you’ll be able to subscribe to Apple TV+ via Amazon Prime Video. This could broaden Apple TV+’s attain and permit extra customers to subscribe simply.
Amazon permits different platforms to promote their subscriptions via Prime Video, increasing their attain.
Apple and Amazon be part of arms to carry Apple TV+ to Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video add-on acts as an aggregator and offers entry to over 100+ third-party channels and streaming providers, with Apple TV+ being the most recent addition. Subscribing to a channel via Prime Video offers you a single invoice and allow you to handle all of your paid subscriptions from a single place. Plus, you’ll be able to watch the content material from the third-party channel inside Prime Video with out downloading a separate app.
Amazon notes in its announcement that Apple TV+ will launch as an add-on subscription on Prime Video later this October. The month-to-month membership payment will value $9.99. This is similar value Apple prices for Apple TV+ while you immediately subscribe to it.
Apple’s SVP of Companies, Eddy Cue, mentioned, “We need to make Apple TV+ and its award-winning library of sequence and movies from the world’s biggest storytellers accessible to as many viewers as doable. We’re thrilled that Prime Video will now provide Apple TV+, giving viewers an unbelievable breadth of viewing choices.”
Stream Apple TV+ content material via Prime Video
For now, solely Prime Video customers within the US can subscribe to Apple TV+. After subscribing, you’ll be able to entry and stream Apple TV+’s library of TV exhibits and films inside Prime Video. You received’t need to obtain the Apple TV+ app for this.
It’s unclear if Amazon will let you log in along with your present Apple TV+ membership in Prime Video. If not, you’ll have to cancel your membership and subscribe once more.
This partnership between Apple and Amazon ought to assist broaden Apple TV+’s attain to extra households and lure extra subscribers. Regardless of an amazing content material library, the corporate’s streaming service is lagging behind its opponents. The Q2 2024 numbers reveal Apple TV+ is larger than Paramount+ within the US however continues to be notably behind Disney+, Netflix, and Prime Video.