The tip is in sight for Freevee as Amazon broadcasts shutdown date

Abstract

Amazon’s FAST service referred to as Amazon Freevee FAST will formally shut down in August 2025.
Freevee’s content material has been moved to Prime Video, accessible underneath a brand new “Look ahead to Free” class with no Prime subscription.
Amazon goals to streamline consumer expertise by merging its FAST service content material with its Prime Video app.

FAST (free ad-supported TV) providers have gained vital reputation within the US, with platforms akin to The Roku Channel, Pluto TV, and Tubi rising as high rivals within the house.

Main tech firms have additionally ventured into offering FAST providers. In 2023, Google TV launched its FAST channels, later rebranded as Freeplay. Samsung gives Samsung TV Plus, whereas Amazon’s service, initially often known as IMDb TV, was renamed Amazon Freevee in 2022.

Nonetheless, Amazon introduced final 12 months that it was shutting down Freevee to shift its total focus to constructing Prime Video. But it surely did not specify precisely when Freevee would shut down. Now, Amazon has lastly confirmed that Freevee will shut down this August, lower than a month away.

This information was shared by Amazon via the newest Freevee app replace (by way of AFTV News). Amazon states customers can “Proceed watching your favourite Freevee Originals and our library of hit films, exhibits, and dwell TV on Prime Video free of charge, no subscription wanted.”

notable exhibits: Jury Responsibility, Bosch: Legacy, Judy Justice, Misplaced, The X-Recordsdata
notable films: Sing 2, EXmas, Stillwater, Outdated, Final Evening in Soho
Premium Subscription: No
Originals: Sure

Amazon Freevee is shutting down in August 2025.

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All of Freevee’s content material is now on Prime Video

Prime Video has a brand new “Look ahead to Free” class accessible alongside all its paid content material

Prime Video on living room TV. — Amazon / Pocket-lint

Amazon / Pocket-lint

Though the Freevee app will not be accessible after August, none of its content material will likely be misplaced. Final 12 months, Amazon added all of Freevee’s content material to Prime Video, permitting customers to proceed watching it free of charge. This consists of Freevee Originals and its library of free films and TV exhibits.

Whereas Prime Video sometimes requires an Amazon Prime subscription to entry most content material, Freevee’s exhibits and films on Prime Video may be watched free of charge with advertisements, with no subscription. Freevee content material seems on Prime Video underneath the “Look ahead to Free” class on each the app and web site.

Amazon clearly hopes this alteration will encourage Freevee customers to contemplate signing up for a Prime membership, in the event that they have not already.

Within the app discover despatched to Freevee customers, Amazon states, “Prime Video is the brand new unique dwelling for Freevee TV exhibits, films, and Reside TV.” In 2024, Amazon introduced it will shut down Freevee in 2025, citing the choice to “section out Freevee branding” as a strategy to “ship an easier viewing expertise for purchasers.”

If in case you have the Freevee app in your smartphone or TV, you may proceed utilizing it via July, however it would cease working in August. If you have not tried Prime Video earlier than, you may obtain it free of charge out of your TV’s app retailer or from the App Retailer and Google Play Retailer in your cell machine.

From a enterprise standpoint, Amazon’s choice to section out Freevee and switch its content material to Prime Video is sensible. Any Freevee consumer who needs to maintain watching free exhibits or films now must browse Prime Video, which gives a wide array of paid content material via its Prime membership and extra paid channels. Amazon clearly hopes this alteration will encourage Freevee customers to contemplate signing up for a Prime membership, in the event that they have not already.