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"Amazon continues to invest aggressively in its video portfolio,China NFL Jerseys, and we would expect additional live content partnerships to be announced in the year ahead," he wrote.
That means that technically, the games won't be free to stream, but they will still be carried by broadcast networks CBS or NBC, as well as simultaneously on the NFL Network.
Twitter's reach last year for the 10 games was an average of about 2.7 million users.
The live-streams of the games will be available to the estimated 65 million members of Amazon Prime, which costs $99 per year and also includes other perks like free videos, books and shipping.
That would be about five times what Twitter paid for the right to stream the games last year.
Amazon did not respond to a request for a comment. The Seattle company already works with the NFL on a documentary series on Prime Video called "All or Nothing," now entering its second season.
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Amazon has been building out its Prime Video streaming service to compete with rival services like Netflix or Hulu, neither of which stream sports live. |
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