From a sheer numbers perspective, Prime Video is an undeniable behemoth in the streaming world. The platform boasts more than 200 million subscribers as of April 2024. While the service is included in Amazon’s Prime membership, that’s not the only way to get it and with each update the company continues to give more reasons to subscribe to its on its own.

The platform is also home to a robust selection of original titles, many of which are amongst the most popular in streaming. However, Prime Video has a lot more to watch than just its own original shows and movies. In fact, the titles that you can watch with your subscription are just the tip of the streaming iceberg on Prime Video; the service is a fantastic destination for lovers of all things streaming, and we’ll explain why here!

Why Prime Video is a top streaming destination

Add extra streaming subscriptions

Our final reason that Prime Video is such a great streaming destination is that subscribers can add supplementary subscriptions to their account. This allows customers to keep all their streaming bills in one place, serving as a streaming service in its own right and an aggregator platform as well.

Customers can add incredibly popular subscriptions to their Prime Video account, including Apple TV+, HBO Max, Paramount+, and many others. You get to watch all the content from your new subscriptions right through the Prime Video interface, helping customers cut out even more steps from the process and making more time for watching.

Fantastic originals

Prime Video’s original TV shows and movies can stand toe-to-toe with some of the most popular titles available anywhere. Titles like “Fallout,” “The Boys,” and “Reacher” are some of the most bingeable in streaming, and the service has originals in basically every genre imaginable.

Amazon also crafts some truly excellent original movies for Prime Video that let you create a cinematic experience for yourself from the comforts of your own couch. Films like “Deep Cover” are putting Prime Video on the map as a top spot for new films, proving it’s a platform for more than just great TV.

Deep library

Prime Video licenses TV shows and movies from every major studio conceivable, including Disney, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Warner Bros. Discovery, and more. That means it has a fantastic catalog of more than 1,000 TV shows and 11,000 movies to choose from, so you’ll never run out of great options to stream on the service.

Sports options

If you are a cord-cutting sports fan, Prime Video is also quickly becoming one of the most formidable subscription streaming services when it comes to premier sports rights.

Prime Video is the host of the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” which streams on the service each week during football season. In 2025, Prime Video will also welcome regular season NBA games, and already carries WNBA matchups, NASCAR races, NWSL soccer matches, and much more.

Best of all, Prime Video offers all these sports on each of its plans. That means that if you’re on the ad-supported tier, you get to watch just as many games as you would if you were signed up for the ad-free plan, and no add-ons are required.

Rent or buy the newest titles

Another benefit of Prime Video is that it serves as a premium video-on-demand (PVOD) platform. This means that customers can rent or buy movies that are still in theaters on Prime Video, skipping the wait and all the lines they have to put up with at the cinema.

Most new movies become available to rent on Prime Video just a few weeks after arriving in theaters, so bypassing the wait and watching the latest blockbuster at home isn’t too onerous a delay. Why pack up the car and pay those movie theater prices when you can watch the newest flicks at home on Prime Video?

But that’s not all, you can also rent and purchase scores of digital TV episodes and full seasons, as well as countless movies that you can’t find streaming anywhere else. If there is a classic title that you want to stream, chances are pretty good that Prime Video has it one way or another.

Bottom line

Prime Video is a fantastic streamer in its own right, with a great selection of original shows and movies, as well as a huge library of licensed titles to choose from. But the service also offers a premium rental platform, live sports, and the ability to add bonus streaming subscriptions all in one place, making Prime Video an absolutely incredible destination for all fans of streaming.