Amazon Prime Thursday Night Football

2023 was the year live sports entered the streaming arena in full force, creating a new form of fragmentation in the process.

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Here’s today’s AdExchanger.com news round-up… Want it by email? Sign up here. Playing The Game Amazon took its first real step into linear TV broadcast territory in September when it streamed its first live NFL game only carried on Amazon Prime, not a TV network. And, of course, Amazon is already feuding with Nielsen.   There’s […]

Ad-supported video on demand is growing relentlessly. But fact is, TV audiences still consume live linear content – they just want to be able to watch it on their own terms, said Matt Hill, head of Fire device monetization at Amazon. Live TV made up 21% of the 154 million hours people spent watching content on a Fire TV device in February alone.