Amazon Prime Video is a subscription video streaming service operated by Amazon, launched in its modern global form in 2016 after growing out of the earlier Amazon Unbox and Amazon Instant Video services, and bundled with an Amazon Prime membership. It combines licensed film and television content with Amazon Studios original productions and live sports rights, competing directly with Netflix and Disney+ as one of the major streaming platforms.
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Launch YearLaunched under the Amazon Unbox brand name in 2006; the service was later renamed Amazon Instant Video and then rebranded Prime Video in 2015, per the same article's History section. Classification
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Amazon Prime Video is operated by Amazon.
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1. Wikipedia, Amazon Prime Video
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Amazon Prime Video, known simply as Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service owned by Amazon.
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Launched on September 7, 2006, as Amazon Unbox in the United States, the service grew with an expanding library and added the Prime Video membership upon the development of the Prime subscription.
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