Amazon Prime offers incredible value for playstation money, with an abundance of features including TV, movie and music streaming, as well as free next-day delivery on items and a whole lot more. In our opinion, getting Prime is a no-brainer. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Amazon is impossible to ignore. It's the dominant force in online shopping with so many different services under the same umbrella. It has changed the way most of us shop for good. Amazon Prime launched in the US in 2005 and Amazon Beauty throughout Europe in 2007 as a free shopping scheme. But since then, Amazon has added a great many of new features to Prime, creating a true must-have service. It offers, most famously, a range of free, super-fast delivery options depending on your postcode or ZIP code. In certain areas of the UK, for example, you can get same-day delivery or even Prime Now delivery, which brings you lots of items within two hours. This con tent was generat ed with the help of G SA C ontent Generator DEMO.
There's also a whole selection of other benefits, including music streaming and access to a vast catalogue of movies and TV shows, including Prime originals like The Boys and forthcoming Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings Of Power, all available via Amazon Prime Instant Video. For everything Prime offers you have to pay just $14.99 per month in the US (opens in new tab) or £7.99 per month in the UK (opens in new tab). You can also pay for a full year in one for a cheaper per-month cost: the annual fee is $139 in the US and £79 in the UK. There's still the option to have a month's free trial of Prime too. If you've had Prime or a Prime trial in the last year you'll miss out, but Amazon tends to reset this so if you've been away long enough you can get back in with a free month. If that wasn't enough to convince you, every July Amazon holds Amazon Prime day, which is a day of deals available exclusively to Amazon Prime members.
It's good for us because we get good deals, and it's good for Amazon as it's able to drive Prime sign-ups. Prime is a clever idea, and one that's not really replicated by any other retailer. Sure, fluencycheck.com Netflix streams movies and TV shows, but it's more expensive than Prime and doesn't have the ability to make things arrive at your house in less than 24 hours as well. Prime isn't a pure video service, but it offers one that's very good. So what exactly do you get for your money? There's the famous next-day delivery in the UK and two-day delivery in the US, while same-day delivery is also available in certain areas, as well as Prime Now, which brings you certain items in two hours or less. If you're a Kindle owner, then a Amazon Prime membership will get you access to a free ebook every month from the Kindle First service and another free book from the Amazon Kindle Lending Library.
You'll also get access to the Amazon Prime Video streaming service with hundreds of movies and TV shows, including The Marvellous Mrs Maisel, Wheel Of Time and The Summer I Turned Pretty. Check out our list of the best Amazon Prime TV shows to watch right now. Fancy a film instead? These are the best Amazon Prime movies. And, of course, there's also Amazon Beauty Music Unlimited, which offers free music streaming of millions of tracks, plus Prime Photos for backing up your photographs from a phone or computer. No matter what the service offers, and the faults that it has - which we'll explore - the key thing to remember here is that Amazon Video alone is worth the Prime subscription. It's cheaper than Netflix per year, and everything else that Prime offers can be considered as an added bonus. And there's a LOT of extras. We've given Amazon Prime Instant Video a full test over here (opens in new tab), but we'll cover most of the important points again in this review.