Amazon is preparing to shutter the doors on Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service housed within Prime Video

DALLAS —Amazon’s Prime Video remains atop Parks Associates’ annual list of the 10 most-popular U.S. streaming services for the third straight year. Parks bases the chart positions on estimated numbers of subscribers through September 2024 from the firm’s Streaming Video Tracker.

The newly-rebranded FanDuel Sports Networks will be available as an add-on subscription for Prime customers living within the team's designated geographic area.

This ranking comes as the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market faces increased competition, with Parks Associates reporting that 88% of U.S. households now subscribe to a streaming service. Notably, 42% of households have opted for ad-supported streaming, indicating a shift in consumer preferences and a growing trend toward ad-based models.

Amazon is officially shutting down its ad-supported streaming service, months after Prime Video introduced ads to its platform.

Customers will still be able to access Freevee content within the Prime Video streaming app, whether they have an Amazon Prime account or not. Original programming such as Jury Du

The transition will programming from Freevee, including originals like Jury Duty and Bosch: Legacy, become available under a "Watch for Free" area on the Prime Video platform. This change applies to all Freevee territories: the US,

Amazon is going to shut down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service. The service’s content has already been migrated over to Prime Video and new episodes of Freevee shows will be available to people who don’t pay for Prime,

Amazon is phasing out Freevee, the ad-supported video streaming platform that launched in 2019 as IMDb Freedive before rebranding as Amazon Freevee in 2022.