{"id":273529,"date":"2018-08-29T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=273529"},"modified":"2018-08-29T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T07:10:48","slug":"amazon-working-on-ad-supported-video-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/273529-amazon-working-on-ad-supported-video-service.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon working on ad-supported video service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is currently working on a free video service for its Fire TV streaming devices, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/amazon-plans-new-video-app-latest-step-into-tv-ad-market\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Information<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with the matter told the Information that the new service would be named Free Dive and would be supported by advertising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Free Dive is being developed by Amazon&#8217;s IMDB subsidiary and will reportedly feature older TV shows and film rights acquired from Amazon&#8217;s ongoing discussions with studios, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The new service will most likely function separately from Amazon&#8217;s Prime Video streaming service and will include a different selection of content from the company&#8217;s primary online streaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/273509-amazon-looking-to-acquire-more-online-film-rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">currently in talks<\/a><\/strong> with multiple major studios such as Sony to acquire online film rights.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/273509-amazon-looking-to-acquire-more-online-film-rights.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon looking to acquire more online film rights<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is working on a free video service for its Fire TV streaming devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":237488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[723,24384,53433,53431],"class_list":["post-273529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-amazon","tag-fire-tv","tag-free-dive","tag-prime-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273533,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273529\/revisions\/273533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}