Amazon has confirmed it is shutting down Freevee, its free ad-supported streaming service, and folding it into Prime Video.

Amazon's FAST service seemed redundant after Amazon launched the Prime Video ad tier in January. With the subscription tier making money from subscription fees and ads shown on Prime Video with ads, it made little sense for Amazon to continue with Freevee, which only has the latter revenue stream.

Amazon is consolidating its video content and putting it in one place to keep things simple, according to the company.

Streamers hear your disgruntled cries over your growing list of subscriptions, and are working to aggregate as many entertainment options as it can in one place — and one bill. Prime Video is leading the race with more than 100 add-on subscriptions available on the Amazon streaming platform,

Amazon is shuttering its free, ad-supported streaming service, Freevee, Deadline reported on Tuesday. The company plans to shut the service down over the coming weeks in countries where it's currently offered, specifically the US, UK, Germany and Austria.

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A new day is dawning for public television in the streaming era, with PBS and Amazon reaching a deal to bring 150 local stations, PBS Kids and two new FAST channels to Prime Video. As in the longstanding linear broadcast model,

Public television program distributor PBS has inked a distribution deal with Amazon that will allow users of the streaming platform Prime Video to watch their local PBS member station and PBS Kids. The deal involves around 150 PBS member stations that are already making their main broadcast feed available through the PBS website and apps,