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Amazon Adds AVP Beach Volleyball To Prime Video Streaming

Amazon has added the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour to its portfolio of sports offerings available for live streaming through Prime Video. After shocking the broadcast world by snaring the NFL’s 11-game Thursday Night Football package for 2017 at a cost of $50 million — and seeing positive early viewership numbers — Amazon continues to […]

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Manchester City To Be Featured In Amazon Prime Video Series

Manchester City is giving fans behind-the-scenes access like never before. Through a partnership with Amazon, the soccer team will be featured in a new Amazon Prime Video multi-part exclusive series that will follow the team through the current 2017-18 season. The series will highlight the Club’s history, the players, coach Pep Guardiola and weekly stories […]

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Amazon Amassed 7.1 Million Streaming Views In Four NFL Games

Amazon’s stream of NFL Thursday Night Football games saw a total of 7.1 million views in its first four games, with its reach extending to 187 countries and territories.  After reporting at the end of September that the first game it streamed — between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears — drew an average […]

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Amazon’s First NFL Stream Posts Solid Numbers Despite Glitches, Paywall

Amazon Prime Video’s debut with streaming Thursday Night Football might have had some glitches, but posted strong numbers relative to last year’s first Twitter broadcast. The game between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears drew an average worldwide audience of 372,000 that watched the game for at least 30 seconds, with each viewer watching […]

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Amazon Positions Self As One-Stop Video Shop With NFL Package

NEW YORK — In hearing Amazon executives discuss the kickoff of its Thursday Night Football streaming package next week, a few insights emerged about how the tech giant envisions its NFL coverage and what customers should expect starting with the first game on Sept. 28: The game broadcast itself won’t be materially different but may […]

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