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Amazon Prime Day - well, days - is here, and you can score some great discounts.

GUEST OPINION:  As one of the biggest online sales weeks in Australia kicks off, there is one legitimate Australian website to shop on, but many to avoid.

Streaming company Netflix’s crackdown on password sharing in Spain in Q1 2023 has resulted to a loss of over one million users, according to media company Kantar.

A rough estimate of 6.11 million Australian households subscribed to at least one video streaming service in Q422 representing 61% households—a decline of 38,000 households quarter on quarter (a softer fall from the 180,000 decline last quarter), according to Kantar Worldpanel’s Entertainment on Demand study in Australia, which examined consumer behaviour within the Video on Demand (VoD) market over three months to December 2022.

Entertainment services subscription grew by more than 16% during the past 12 months, according to research by analyst firm Telsyte.

The shopping bonanza that is Amazon Prime Day has arrived, with an argument by some out there that the best time to spend money in an inflationary environment is right now, while it's still worth something, with online sales a great time to trade your plastic notes for real goods and services, so what's on offer?

Scammers are capitalising on rumours that Amazon may be planning to launch its own cryptocurrency, according to security company Avast.

Optus is introducing Optus SubHub - an application that simplifies content subscriptions and memberships by putting them in one place and allowing eligible Optus customers to save money and discover new content options.

ACMA has released subscription video on demand Australian content results for 2019-2020. As at 30 June 2020, Australian program titles representing 3,080 hours of content was available on these services.

Amazon has agreed to acquire MGM for US$8.45 billion.

Whether it's Netflix, Disney+, Stan, Binge, Foxtel Go or some other TV streaming service, Finder has found 44% of Aussies "freeload off a friend or family member's" subscription, equating to an estimated 8.5 million Australians "moochers".

Although eBay has already had its giant sale last month, it is competing with Amazon's Prime Day sale with a stack of fantastic deals and offers of its own.

Australian Prime members will be first in the world to access deals from 15 July 15 which will "feature tens of thousands of products available at discount prices across all categories including Alexa-enabled devices, Fashion, Video Games, Books, Home, and Kitchen".

Promising IPX8 water resistance with a 7-inch, 300dpi Paperwhite display that proffers "the latest e-ink technology, and colour adjustable front light", the all-new thin and light Kindle Oasis is no mirage in the desert!

Telstra has partnered with Amazon to deliver the Prime Video app to Telstra TV, with Amazon Prime members in Australia now able to watch popular TV shows and movies via the Prime Video app on Telstra TV.

It will come as no surprise for many to hear that Apple is looking to release a new low-cost streaming device to compete with the likes of Google Chromecast, Roku, and Amazon Fire.

Amazon is trumpeting advance showings of the forthcoming Aquaman movie – but Australian Amazon Prime members will miss out.

If you've been harbouring a hope, new or otherwise, that an eBay Plus vs Amazon Prime price war would awaken, your wish looks to have been granted, but as always, you'd better be quick.

Amazon's Prime Day events are hugely popular in the US, but now that Amazon Prime launched in Australia from midday 19 June, it's time to get primed for our own Prime Day (and a half) on 16 July.

Global-gone-local marketplace Amazon.Com.Au now offers Amazon Prime in Australia, with free two-day delivery, plus Prime Video, Prime Reading, Twitch Prime and other inclusions.