Amazon Prime membership has exceeded 100 million paid Prime members
worldwide, Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO, Amazon stated this in a media
interaction. The actual number of Prime subscribers has never been
revealed before, thus making space for a lot of speculation. In contrast to
Amazon 100 million figures, Netflix has 125 million subscribers.
While Netflix continuously adds a lot of varied titles, Amazon Prime Video
too has been testing new waters of late. Amazon Prime Video added shows such as
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the Oscar-nominated movie The Big Sick. The
Marvelous Mrs. Maisel grabbed the Best Television Series — Musical or Comedy
title at the 75
th Golden Globes Awards. Besides this, it has been
collaborating with many Indian stand-up artists as well. It recently launched
its first unscripted series in India – The Remix.
Besides this, Amazon Prime Video is also looking at releasing season 2 of
Inside Edge this year. TheDigitalHash.com has already reported that around
26
million people watch content through Amazon’s Prime Video service in USA,
making it one of the largest streaming video services in the world, behind only
YouTube and Netflix.