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Amazon Freevee, the ad-supported streaming service formally known as IMDb TV, now has a dedicated Apple TV app, Amazon announced Monday. Freevee was previously available on Apple TV within the Prime Video app, but now Freevee has its own app that you can download from the App Store for the Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD. Freevee offers access to Amazon Studios shows like Bosch: Legacy and Pretty Hard Cases as well as other free movies and TV like Mad Men and Knives Out. Freevee recently signed a new deal with Disney that…

Netflix is looking to introduce advertisements on its platform and will begin cracking down on password sharing before the end of 2022, a new report has claimed, citing access to an internal note. That's much quicker than what Netflix founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings had put out just a month ago on the most recent quarterly earnings call. Back then, Hastings had said that the world's biggest subscription-based video streaming service would chart out ad-driven alternatives to the existing plans over the “next year or two.”…

Netflix said inflation, the war in Ukraine and fierce competition contributed to a loss of subscribers for the first time in more than a decade and predicted deeper losses ahead, marking an abrupt shift in fortune for a streaming company that thrived during the pandemic.The company said it lost 200,000 subscribers in its first quarter, falling well short of its forecast of adding 2.5 million subscribers. Suspending service in Russia after the Ukraine invasion took a toll, resulting in the loss of 700,000 members.Wall…