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Amazon is planning to create a standalone app for watching sports activities, The Information reported in December.

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The report comes as Amazon chief Andy Jassy lately referred to as stay sports activities “a unique asset” during which the corporate will proceed to speculate.

Amazon’s sports activities content material is at the moment included within the firm’s predominant Prime Video platform.

It has continued to concentrate on Prime Video and stay sports activities content material.

Amazon has began providing unique sports activities discuss reveals on Prime Video apart from streaming stay sports activities occasions like NFL’s Thursday Night Football, together with some Premier League soccer matches, and Yankees baseball video games.

Prime Video additionally streamed India’s first stay cricket match sequence on its platform within the month of November.

The firm has not disclosed any launch date for the standalone sports activities app.

Currently, among the rivals of Prime Video like Hotstar, Sony, and Netflix don’t have a separate app for streaming sports activities. Sports content material is included in the primary apps solely.

Hotstar and Sony stream stay sports activities, however Netflix doesn’t.

Amazon has been reviewing its unprofitable companies lately and the corporate has additionally introduced plans to put off staff.

Through the creation of a standalone sports activities streaming app, the corporate is perhaps exploring different income streams.