Amazon may soon provide free video streaming for all
Amazon is gearing up to launch a free video streaming service for both television and music videos, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The videos would be ad-supported in the vein of Hulu and YouTube, and the service would reportedly follow the launch of Amazon's as-yet-unannounced streaming device.
Amazon has long offered certain videos for free streaming as part of its $79 (soon to be $99) per-year Prime membership. In addition to licensed and even exclusive content like the first season of the BBC America show Orphan Black, the company has also started dipping its toes in original content, as with the show Betas.
According to the anonymous sources that the WSJ spoke to, the free content for Amazon shoppers would "likely" include original Amazon programming and music videos, and licensed content "may" be included. The service is set to debut in the coming months, though the sources caution that the project could be halted or delayed due to "financial or other concerns."
