Prime Video has entered a distribution settlement with Sony Footage Tv (SPT), a division of Sony Footage Leisure (SPE), to launch an add-on subscription on the streamer for viewers in India.
Sony Footage – Stream will provide SPE’s motion pictures and exhibits on Prime Video Channels and its subscribers for an add-on introductory annual subscription of Rs. 399.
“We’re delighted to launch Sony Footage – Stream, a brand new Prime Video Channel curated particularly for our prospects in India.
“The collaboration permits Sony Footage Leisure to make their huge and beloved library obtainable in India at a single vacation spot, reaching prospects throughout the size and breadth of the nation by way of Prime Video Channels,” mentioned Vivek Srivastava, head – Prime Video Channels, India.
Sonika Bhasin, Vice President – South Asia, Sony Footage Tv, mentioned with the partnership with Prime Video, Indian audiences can have entry to content material from SPE’s intensive library of award-winning movies and critically acclaimed tv sequence.
“Moreover, in celebration of the one hundredth Anniversary of Columbia Footage, part of Sony Footage Leisure, Sony Footage – Stream spotlights the studio’s historical past and unimaginable movie legacy by providing prospects an unimaginable array of movies from the studio’s beloved vault spanning the a long time,” Bhasin added.
Final yr in December, it was reported that Amazon would begin incorporating ads inside Prime Video quickly. Amazon Prime customers within the US reportedly obtained communication from Amazon informing them that the usual Amazon Prime plan would present adverts whereas streaming motion pictures and TV exhibits. The corporate had initially introduced the transfer in September final yr and had said that it will go into impact in early 2024.