"Jury Duty" (Amazon Freevee image)
Amazon Denies Reports It Plans to Shutter Ad-Supported Freevee Streaming Platform
February 21, 2024
Amazon says it has no plans to shutter its Freevee ad-supported streaming television platform, which launched in 2019 as IMDb TV before rebranding as Freevee in 2022 affording viewers free access to original and catalog content.
Media reports had suggested Amazon was ending the platform after it initiated ad-supported content on the Prime Video service last month.
“There are no changes to Freevee. [It] remains an important streaming offering providing both Prime and non-Prime customers thousands of hit movies, shows, and Originals,” an Amazon spokesperson said in an email statement.
Earlier this month, Freevee, which offers 400 free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels, added a TMZ FAST channel as well as 17 new local news FAST channels from Fox, with live and breaking news for respective cities and the surrounding area.
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Freevee scored a critical hit a year ago with the sitcom “Jury Duty,” which found an unsuspecting civilian reporting to what he thought was actual jury duty, but instead was a fictional court filled with character actors, including James Marsden.