The Streaming Partners Program offers many benefits for video providers. Amazon is responsible for:

 

• Driving all subscriber acquisition
• Making subscribing friction-free—credit cards are already on file
• Handling all customer service
• Managing all billing
• Managing credit card expirations
• Serving your content through high-quality, reliable streaming infrastructure
• Managing compatibility across hundreds of devices

The Streaming Partners Program offers many benefits for viewers, including:

 

• Free trials on all subscriptions
• Special Prime member pricing
• Latest episodes available simultaneous with broadcast
• Convenience of one account
• One Watchlist across all subscriptions
• Self-service cancellation of any subscription at anytime
• IMDb X-Ray integration
• Unified search and browse across subscriptions
• Unified voice search and ASAP on Fire TV

Initial launch partners include: SHOWTIME, STARZ, A+E Network (Lifetime Movie Club), AMC (Shudder and SundanceNow Doc Club), Gaia, RLJ Entertainment (Acorn TV, Urban Movie Channel, Acacia TV), DramaFever (DramaFever Instant), Tribeca Shortlist, Cinedigm (Dove Channel, Docurama, CONtv), Smithsonian (Smithsonian Earth), IndieFlix (IndieFlix Shorts), Curiosity Stream, Qello Concerts, FlixFling (Cinefest, Nature Vision, Warriors and Gangsters, Dox, Monsters and Nightmares), BroadbandTV (Hooplakidz Plus), DEFY Media (ScreenJunkies Plus), Gravitas (Film Forum, Daring Docs, Fear Factory), and Ring TV Boxing.