Freevee, Amazon's free and ad-supported TV streaming service, is not shutting down after all. That's according to Amazon, which has denied a story in AdWeek that Prime Video's less prestigious sibling was going to be sent to the farm later this year.
The AdWeek story was based on a "source familiar with the matter", who pointed to the injection of ads into Prime Video as an omen. "If the question is whether or not Amazon will persist with two stand-alone streaming services, I'm certain the answer is no." A further three people told the publication that the overlap in content between Freevee and the ad-funded Prime Video, meant that Amazon was going to shutter the free service altogether, most likely later this year.
