Andy Jassy says Prime Video is on track to earn ‘tens of billions of dollars’
- ID
- 40986
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 30 Oct 2026, 7:44 AM
- Fetched
- 30 Oct 2026, 3:12 PM
- Provider
- TechCrunch
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/andy-jassy-says-prime-video-is-on-track-to-earn-tens-of-billions-of-dollars/
- Source URL
- https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 1.5
- Created
- 30 Oct 2026, 3:12 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- startup_founders
What happened
On Amazon's quarterly earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy said Prime Video has a revenue run rate "in the tens of billions of dollars" and is now profitable in its own right — a new detail beyond his May comment that the unit was profitable. Amazon MGM Studios has booked over $1.2 billion in global box office this year, with Project Hail Mary at roughly $684 million worldwide, while Reacher season 4 drew 66 million viewers in its first 28 days and the first six Thursday Night Football games averaged 17.7 million viewers, up 16% year over year. The piece also notes the $8.5 billion MGM acquisition four years ago and at least one flop, Melania.
Why it matters
There is no concrete action here for developers, AI builders, or SaaS founders — no API, pricing, platform, or policy change, and no Malaysian or SEA angle in the text. The only usable signal is that Amazon is funding a profitable media arm alongside AWS, but the article gives no figures a builder could act on (no absolute revenue, no profit number, no investment plans). Treat it as context, not a decision input.
Discussion angle
Worth 60 seconds at most: Jassy gave a run-rate range ("tens of billions") and a profitability claim without an absolute figure — ask whether headline-grabbing ranges like this should change how you read any vendor's earnings language, then move to items with actual builder impact.