Amazon Prime Day swirls around us like a twister of savings, bombarding us with massive price drops on all sorts of products. Many of the deals are exclusive to Prime customers, Amazon's paid membership program. Introduced in 2005, Prime has swiftly become a keystone of the company's business, with over 200 million subscribers worldwide. Originally created as a way to get free two-day shipping on orders, the company has added benefits at a breakneck pace, and you might not even know what it makes you eligible for.
There are dozens of free Prime benefits that come with your membership. Some are obvious, like free shipping and early access to discounts. Some are not, like free Grubhub+ and delivery inside your garage with Amazon Key. And some are absolutely wild, like free access to millions of e-books. Here are five of the best deals and offers that prove Amazon Prime is worth your $139 a year.
Amazon Prime Video Channels
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The Best Prime Day Deals You Can Still Get
- Apple AirPods 4 Wireless Earbuds With Active Noise Cancellation for $169.00 (List Price $179.00)
- Apple iPad 10.2" 64GB Wi-Fi Tablet (2021 Release) for $199.00 (List Price $329.00)
- iRobot Roomba Vac Essential Q0120 Robot Vacuum Cleaner for $179.00 (List Price $249.99)
- Wyze Cam OG 1080p Wired Wi-Fi Security Camera (White) for $19.98 (List Price $29.98)
- GMKtec M2 Pro Intel i7 1TB SSD 32GB RAM Mini Desktop for $419.99 (List Price $639.99)
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A Prime Video subscription gives you access to Amazon's constantly-expanding library of both free movies and shows as well as rental and purchasing options. But the service also serves as a platform to a number of other streaming companies, and subscribing through Amazon can snag you huge discounts this Prime Day. Some of the most popular channels on the service, like Shudder, Crunchyroll, Britbox, and more are offering 99-cent signup deals where you get the first two months of streaming for under a buck. You can cancel any time, too, so take this as an opportunity to check out some new content for cheap.
Here's a listing of the channels with special Prime Day offers:
Paramount+ with Showtime (Ad-Free)
Discovery+ (Ad-Free)
AMC+ (Ad-Free)
MGM+
ViX Premium
STARZ
Crunchyroll Fan
BET+
Britbox
PBS Masterpiece
Hallmark Movies Now
Acorn TV
Lifetime Movie Club
UP Faith & Family
PBS Documentaries
PBS Kids
Great American Pure Flix
A&E Crime Central
HISTORY Vault
MHz Choice
Cinemax
HIDIVE
The Great Courses
One of the lesser-known advantages of a Prime subscription is access to Prime Gaming, Amazon's digital store and cloud gaming service. Not only can you purchase downloadable versions of titles, you can play them for free online via Luna, the company's streaming games service. This is included in the base Prime subscription, so click through to activate it now. As an extra bonus, Amazon is giving away a trio of free games: Rise of the Tomb Raider, Chivalry II, and Suicide Squad. You need to claim them before Prime Day comes to an end, though, so act fast.
Yes, Amazon has its own music streaming service, and right now, you can get up to five months free. Prime members can commit to a subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited by midnight on Wednesday, July 17 and pay nothing for a wide selection of ad-free music and podcasts with HD spatial audio and high quality. In our review of Amazon Music Unlimited, we said that the platform "offers an impressive library of music, a deep well of podcasts, hi-res audio, and clever discovery and AI innovations," and gave it an Editors' Choice award.
Amazon got its start selling books, so it's good to know that literacy is still a part of its value proposition. Kindle Unlimited is the company's e-book subscription service, giving you access to a flabbergasting amount of published material for one low monthly price. The normal $11.99 subscription is cheaper than buying a book a month, but during Prime Day you can sign up for three free months before they start billing you. You get access to over 4 million digital titles, audiobooks, magazine subscriptions, and more.
Are you tired of your phone telling you you're running out of room in the cloud? Guess who knows a lot about cloud storage and wants to share it with you. That's right: Amazon. The retailer leverages its massive cloud computing infrastructure for the Amazon Photos service, which lets you upload up to 5GB of video and an unlimited number of photos for free. Apps for both iOS and Android devices make hooking your camera roll up to Amazon Photos easy, and you can even order prints of your snaps and have them shipped for free.
That's five ways you get stuff for free (or almost free) with your Amazon Prime account. Need more? Here are 150 of the best deals this Prime Day, along with 21 tips for Prime subscribers.
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