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Amazon Prime Video's latest update aims to simplify navigation and improve content discovery with a redesigned home screen, AI-powered recommendations, and a refreshed user interface. (Unsplash) AI 

Amazon Prime Video to undergo significant redesign: Streamlined navigation, AI recommendations, and additional features

Febin Mathew

Amazon Prime Video in India is rolling out a major update to its streaming platform, with the goal of making navigation easier and enhancing content discovery. The update, currently being implemented, is anticipated to be accessible to all users in the next few weeks. This revamp is a direct response to customer suggestions for a more user-friendly streaming experience. Content forward navigation and new items Prime Video’s home screen redesign brings a content-forward navigation bar with purpose-built items like “Home,” “Movies,” “TV Shows,” and “Live TV.” Additionally, a new “Prime”…

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Beast Games will premiere on Amazon Prime Video in over 240 countries, as per MrBeast. (AFP) News 

MrBeast announces ‘Beast Games’, the largest reality competition ever with a $5 million prize.

Sanjay Patil

Popular YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, has revealed a new reality competition called BeastGames in collaboration with Amazon Prime Video. The show will follow the format of the intense competitions regularly featured on MrBeast’s YouTube channel, where contestants from around the globe compete for a chance to win $250,000. MrBeast’s success with these competitions has helped him become the most subscribed individual on YouTube, and the upcoming BeastGames is expected to further boost his popularity. MrBeast and Amazon Prime Video announce Beast Games According to the publication, Beast…

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OTT Releases this Week: Explore top OTT releases this week from Maamla Legal Hai, Sunflower Season 2, Napoleon and more. (Prime Video, Hotstar, Netflix) Gadgets 

New Releases on OTT Platforms: Watch Maamla Legal Hai, Sunflower Season 2, Napoleon, and other shows online this week

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New content is set to hit popular OTT platforms this week, including Disney+ Hotstar, JioCinema, Zee5, Netflix, Prime Video, and more. With a diverse range of movies and web series in various genres and languages, viewers can look forward to a binge-worthy experience. For those seeking quality additions to their watchlist, we have curated a list of upcoming releases on different OTT platforms. Here’s a look at upcoming releases on leading OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney Hotstar and more: 1. Anyone But You – February 27 (Amazon Prime…

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Amazon.com will lay off several hundred employees in its streaming and studio operations, as the company continues with its churning exercise. News 

Major layoffs expected at Amazon in Prime Video and Studios

Nitin Misra

(Reuters) – Amazon.com will lay off several hundred workers in its streaming and studio operations, it said in an internal memo on Wednesday, as the companies continue their massive layoffs over the past two years through 2024. Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios in the Americas will be notified of departing staff on Wednesday, and in most other territories by the end of the week. The online retail behemoth cut more than 27,000 jobs last year as part of a wave of U.S. tech layoffs after the industry had recruited…

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Amazon is finally bringing ads to Prime Video starting January 29 for users in the US, UK, Germany, and Canada. Here's all you need to know about it. Gadgets 

Amazon to introduce payment option for ad-free streaming or watch ads

Jim Hendler, ,

Following an announcement earlier this year, Amazon will reportedly begin accepting ads on its Prime Video streaming service across all of its movies and TV shows starting January 29, 2024. But to avoid them entirely, users can pay an extra $2.99, as first reported by The Verge. These ads will be “limited” in nature, and the company says its implementation will allow it to continue investing in creating quality content for its viewers. Initially, these ads would also end up on Amazon Prime Video customers in the US, UK, Germany…

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Amazon Prime Video will next year join streaming rivals in rolling out ads and introducing a higher priced ad-free tier. News 

Will Amazon Prime Video Ads Be Introduced in India in 2021?

Adarsh V.K

(Reuters) – Amazon Prime Video will join its streaming rivals next year in rolling out ads and introducing a more expensive ad-free tier as the industry grapples with a post-pandemic slowdown in subscriber numbers. The US tech giant said on Friday that the ads will roll out in the US, UK, Germany and Canada in early 2024, followed by France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia later this year. Amazon’s ad-free tier costs another $2.99 a month in the US, where a Prime subscription currently costs $14.99 a month or $139…

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YouTube website undergoes tiny but significant change

Febin Mathew,

Looks like YouTube is making a small but big change to its Youtube.com website. In case you remember, in October of this year, the company redesigned the experience of watching videos on its Android and iOS apps. However, now it is making one of these changes to the web version. We are talking in particular of the “autoplay” toggle directly inside the video bar. Right now, for millions of people around the world, YouTube’s Autoplay button is found in the right sidebar under the Next section which shows which video…

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How to use Amazon Prime’s Watch Party feature in India

Adarsh V.K,

Amazon today introduced a new feature on its video streaming platform in India. The company introduced the Watch Party feature on Prime Video. To give you a brief overview of this feature, Amazon Prime Video’s Watch Party feature allows Prime Video users to watch any video, be it a movie or TV series with their friends together, even if they stay apart. one another. Up to 100 Prime subscribers or Prime Video subscribers can watch videos with their friends and family from their desktop apps. The caveat is that you…

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