Amazon is ending its policy of letting viewers vote on which TV pilot episodes they would like to become full-length series, announcing at the Television Critics Associationās press tour on Saturday that it was ending the crowdsourcing portion of its original content program.
You can get comprehensive lists of everything coming to streaming services anywhere. But half of those titles you donāt care about, and the other half are terrible. Whereās the good stuff? io9 is here to help.
I know what youāre thinking: Amazonās got some hot deals for its made-up holiday, and even though you donāt exactly need an AmazonBasics portable air compressor, you would be foolish not to save $14 by buying it on Amazon Prime Day. Resist these thoughts, fellow consumer. Amazon Prime Day is bullshit.
Do you ever get that feeling that someone is pulling a fast one on you? Thatās the feeling weāre starting to get with Amazon Prime, the flagship service that provides two-day shipping and all sorts of other perks...but quietly keeps trickling up in price. At what point do you consider dropping a service that youāveā¦
My own personal Amazon Prime day is in two weeks. Itās not the day that Amazon puts a lot of random crap on sale. (Thatās in approximately three weeks.) My day is when Amazon will charge me $120 for another year of membership. Thatās $20 more than what the company charged me last year and $40 more than what I paidā¦
Amazon Prime Video, the streaming service you turn to when Netflix doesnāt have what youāre looking for, is best known for shows like Transparent, The Man In the High Castle, and *checks notes* films claiming the government is run by human-reptile hybrids.
On an earnings call this afternoon, Amazonās chief financial officer Brian Olsavsky dropped an unexpected bit of information: The price of Amazon Prime is increasing to $119.
Amazon CEO and Lex Luthor lookalike Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday in a letter to shareholders that more than 100 million people around the world are subscribers to Amazon Prime, providing them the privilege of getting all the shit they buy delivered in just two days.
Get ready to grovel for your next shipment of toilet paper. A recently published Amazon patent depicts a delivery drone capable of recognizing and responding to human gestures and speech, which means you may want to practice the art of supplication to ensure proper delivery of that two-ply to your front porch.
Everyone has a Prime account now, donāt they? Itās become almost an afterthoughtāa utility bill paid once a year (or once a month) in return for fast delivery, a Netflix clone, a Kindle lending library, and some other bits and pieces. But is Prime such a no-brainer? Maybe youāre tired of paying the richest man in theā¦
Amazonās āPrime Exclusiveā phones always seemed like a tantalizing deal, because if you were already a Prime subscriber, you could save $25, $50, $100, or more on handsets from well-known manufacturers like LG and Motorola. But until now, there was always a catch, because those savings came with lock screen ads andā¦
One of the major advantages of capitalism is the constant, nagging impulse to buy stuff. And lucky for you spendy Americans out there, Amazon is leveraging its purchase of Whole Foods once again, making it easier than ever to purchase things impulsively. Youāll soon be able to buy Amazon products in Whole Foodsā¦
Thereās another Amazon Prime price hike coming, but it will only affect certain people. Monthly Prime members will soon see their fee jump from $11 to $13, though they can still cancel at any time without penalties. Meanwhile, students paying for monthly Prime will see an increase from $5.50 to $6.50. That might notā¦
If youāre in the US, one of the biggest barriers to watching the newest Star Trek show is the fact that Discovery is exclusively available through CBSās annoying digital service, All Access. Good news: Itās becoming a little easier to, err, access it. Bad news: Itās not exactly what you want it to be.
This is getting ridiculous. Amazon and Google are acting like a couple of teenagers. Breaking up, getting back together, and breaking up again. It all needs to stop, because theyāre just making other peoplesā lives miserable.
When it acquired Whole Foods in August, Amazon said that Prime members would eventually get āspecial savings and in-store benefitsā at the grocery stores, and the company just announced the first one: Itās for turkey! For Thanksgiving! A whole 20 percent off (non-organic) birds! If youāre a member of Amazon Prime, ā¦
Commercial interruptions just will not die. The birth of streaming television has given us a merciful respite from the mind-numbing ad breaks that finance broadcast TV. But you canāt keep a bad thing down, and Amazon is reportedly developing an ad-supported, free version of its popular Prime video service.
This morning, after about five clicks over the course of 10 seconds, I cancelled my Netflix membership. The company had started notifying people of its latest price increaseāa two buck bump from $12 to $14 in my caseāand I just couldnāt do it any more. In fact, you should ask yourself if you need to keep paying forā¦
The big streaming services always have a ton of horror movies on offer, but not all of them are especially fright-inducing. In honor of Halloween, put all the Sharknado and Gingerdead Man sequels aside in favor of actually scaring the bejesus out of yourself. Each of these 11 movies will haunt your nightmares.
If you want to be on The Tickās good side, hereās a nice tip to remember: donāt mess with Arthur. If you do, thereās gonna be trouble. Like superheroes shooting themselves out of cannons trouble. And we donāt want that.
