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Amazon announced that its free streaming service Freevee is now available in Germany. This is the second international launch for the AVOD platform, following the UK last year.

Amazon has commissioned its first slate of Southeast Asian originals for Prime Video, as the company has launched localized versions of the platform in three key markets: Indonesia, Thailand and The Philippines.

Amazon announced financial results for its second quarter of the year, a period which saw the company’s revenue increasing by 7.2% from a year earlier to US$121.2 billion.

Hub’s annual “Monetization of Video” study tracks which TV providers consumers feel provide the best value and which attributes make one provider more valuable than another.

The UK was already the most expensive European country for a Prime subscription, with this being the first price increase since 2014. The country's smallest proportional increase of 20% will be applied.