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Amazon’s Prime Video Channels has launched a limited-time bundle of Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus for $19.99 a month.
The bundle, which offers a astir $10 savings complete nan mixed value of nan individual services, follows a package created past October featuring Apple TV and Peacock’s Premium tier. That anterior bundle resulted from an statement betwixt Apple and NBCUniversal, without Amazon’s involvement.
The Premium Plus tier of Peacock is ad-free, isolated from for unrecorded sports programming, and allows downloads and entree to section NBC stations. Apple TV besides does not person ads extracurricular of unrecorded sports, remaining nan past ad-free holdout among awesome general-entertainment streamers.
NBCUniversal has been exploring caller ways to thrust subscriptions to Peacock, which has lagged down galore rival streaming services and remains successful nan reddish arsenic astir different peers person turned a profit. In galore of its caller distribution deals, including a caller 1 pinch Google and YouTube TV, NBCU has sought privilege placement for Peacock. YouTube TV, now 1 of nan largest U.S. pay-TV operators, had wanted to ingest NBCU and Peacock programming straight into YouTube TV successful bid to support viewers connected nan streaming platform.
Dating backmost to its motorboat successful 2020, Peacock has occasionally been astatine likelihood pinch tech platforms. At launch, Peacock was not disposable via Roku and Amazon Fire TV, nan 2 main gatekeepers of streaming successful nan U.S.
Peacock ended 2025 pinch 44 cardinal subscribers, adding 3 cardinal successful nan last months of nan twelvemonth but posting wider losses owed to sports authorities costs. Apple TV, which launched successful 2019, has ne'er disclosed subscriber numbers aliases viewership data.
“The Apple TV and Peacock Premium Plus streaming bundle is an breathtaking summation to Prime Video and offers our customers an unthinkable operation of premium entertainment, convenience, and value,” said Ryan Pirozzi, Head of Prime Video Channels, U.S., successful a statement. “This bundle makes it easier for customers to seamlessly entree moreover much intermezo options each successful 1 place. By expanding nan streaming services and bundles disposable connected Prime Video, we’re continuing to present connected our committedness to supply customers pinch greater prime and seamless entree to nan shows, movies, and sports they love.”
