Support

Prime Video enables you to sell your content with multiple monetization options. Choices include making titles available at no additional charge for Amazon Prime members, free to customers who watch the content with pre-roll ads, available for rental, available for purchase, or as part of a channel.

Change a standalone title

1. In Your Videos, on the Standalone tab, click the title.
2. On the Availability tab, under Where should this title be available? select where you have rights and want to offer this title.

   Note: If you click None or clear all locations, a previously published title will become unavailable except for prior purchases. The title detail page remains live. The process to make a title unavailable might take up to four hours after updates are published.

3. Check the box for How can Amazon customers can watch this title? This is where you set the monetization of your title.
   Included with Prime

   Amazon Prime is a paid membership. Prime Video is included with a Prime membership. As a member, viewers will be able to watch your content at any time across all devices.

   Free with Pre-Roll Ad

   Some content performs better when it’s free. We offer our ad-supported service to publishers whose goal is awareness rather than sales.

   Rent

   Rentals give customers 30 days from their purchase to start watching, and a 48-hour window to watch after the video begins playing. After the rental period ends, the title automatically leaves the customer’s video library.

   Buy

   Purchased titles can be watched as many times as the customer wants on Prime Video supported devices.

   Note: Unpublishing or deleting videos doesn’t remove viewing rights from customers who have purchased videos.

   Channel

   Titles can be offered through a subscrchanneption which allows you to create one channel per U.S. Prime Video Direct account. A minimum of 30 titles must be included in the channel and a duration of 18 months is required for the channel offering.

   If you select Rent or Buy, you're asked to choose between Preset pricing and Custom pricing (advanced). Preset pricing includes Value, best for older and back catalog videos, and Base, best for balancing cost with wide audience appeal.

   Note: Amazon reserves the right to change prices.

4. Under When should this title be available, select the date of availability.
   As soon as possible

   The video will appear on Prime Video immediately after the publishing process is complete.

   On a specific date

   Amazon will attempt to honor requested future start dates you pick with the calendar picker if encoding and review processes are complete.

   Advanced options

   This option enables the most customization for start and end dates for each monetization model and marketplace. Amazon will attempt to honor requested future start dates you pick if encoding and review processes are complete.

5. Click Save.
6. Click Publish.

Change a season

1. In Your Videos, on the Episodic tab, click the title.
2. On the Availability tab, under Where should this title be available? select where you have rights and want to offer this title.

   Note: If you click None or clear all locations, a previously published title will become unavailable except for prior purchases. The title detail page remains live. The process to make a title unavailable might take up to four hours after updates are published.

3. Check the box for How can Amazon customers can watch this title? This is where you set the monetization of your title.
   Included with Prime

   Amazon Prime is a paid membership. Amazon Video is included with a Prime membership. As a member, viewers will be able to watch your content at any time across all devices.

   Free with Pre-Roll Ad

   Some content performs better when it’s free. We offer our ad-supported service to publishers whose goal is awareness rather than sales.

   Buy Episodes
   

   Purchased episodes can be watched as many times as the customer wants on Amazon Video supported devices.

   Note: Unpublishing or deleting videos doesn’t remove viewing rights from customers who have purchased videos.

   Buy Season
   

   Purchased season videos can be watched as many times as the customer wants on Amazon Video supported devices.

   Note: Unpublishing or deleting videos doesn’t remove viewing rights from customers who have purchased videos.

   Subscription

   Titles can be offered through a subscription which allows you to create one subscription per U.S. Amazon Video Direct account. A minimum of 30 titles must be included in the subscription and a duration of 18 months is required for the subscription offering.

   If you select Buy Episodes or Buy Season, you're asked to choose between Preset pricing and Custom pricing (advanced). Preset pricing includes Value, best for older and back catalog videos, and Base, best for balancing cost with wide audience appeal. Amazon reserves the right to change prices.

   For episodic titles, the season price is calculated on the number of episodes when a season is published.

   Note: For information about royalties, see Royalty Information.
4. Under When should this title be available, select the date of availability.
   As soon as possible

   The video will appear on Amazon Video immediately after the publishing process is complete.

   On a specific date

   Amazon will attempt to honor requested future start dates you pick with the calendar picker if encoding and review processes are complete.

   Advanced options

   This option enables the most customization for start and end dates for each monetization model and marketplace. Amazon will attempt to honor requested future start dates you pick if encoding and review processes are complete.

5. Click Save.
6. Click Publish.