Amazon’s Made These Extremely Popular Games Exclusive to Prime Members

For example, if you live in a majority Black neighborhood, your zip code likely mysteriously does not qualify for the site’s highly touted Same-Day Shipping in the major cities the site is offering the service.

Amazon does offer other alternatives, through third-party sellers who can charge additional postage, but this must be seen as a massive push at the gaming market – targeting them for Prime membership.

Netflix has shifted towards original and exclusive movies and shows, and with this, the size of its catalog has dropped. It had some stuff worth watching, but calling it a Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) competitor would b a stretch.

“From time to time, Amazon offers exclusive selection and pricing on select items for Prime members”.

While controversial, the area that Amazon may well be beating them in, however, is in the output of original television shows. It’s now available for $8.99 a month – $1 less than Netflix, as Amazon looks to undercut its biggest rival. Hulu, on the other hand, has a price tag of $7.99 but with limited commercial while, Amazon Prime customers will have to part with $99 per month. During the same period a year ago, Netflix launched its service in New Zealand and Australia, which resulted in significant subscriber growth.

Also included in the deal is Broad Green’s upcoming summer release (in theatres July 15) The Infiltrator starring Bryan Cranston as Robert Mazur, an undercover U.S. Customs agent who brought down the largest drug and money laundering operation in U.S. history. You’ll be paying more annually for that freedom, but it’s now there if you want it.

If you happen to see any other odd Prime only activity, let us know, because this one we haven’t seen first-hand quite yet. As against HBO’s almost 400 hours of original programming, Netflix streamed more than 450 hours of original content in 2015. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings addressed the Prime Video change in his company’s most recent earnings call, and he believes growth for the market segment can benefit all players. Do you think it will be a real success or a drawback? “There is so much out there”.

In its analysis, Barclays cited InstantWatcher.com, JustWatch.com and Somethingtostream.com, which monitor titles on streaming services.

HBO, of course, is the network Netflix CEO Reed Hastings set out to emulate when his service began charting a course away from streaming TV reruns and previously released movies.