Amazon Prime Video’s Watch Party feature, which lets you watch a movie or TV show together with your friends remotely, is now available on smart TVs, streaming devices like Roku, and gaming consoles like Xbox or PlayStation.
Prior to this expansion, the feature was available on desktops, Fire TV devices, and in the Prime Video app on iOS and Android. You can now watch titles with your friends on almost all types of Prime Video-compatible devices.
Amazon has started testing the Watch Parties feature on Twitch with select streamers. The following year, after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the company introduced this feature as Watch Party on Amazon Prime Video. In 2021, it extended support for the Watch Party feature to Fire TV devices, so you can enjoy social viewing sessions on a big screen.
“Prime Video Watch Party provides customers with an immersive experience to share with friends, family and other Prime Video users. A host starts the party by sharing their party link, allowing up to 100 people to join in the fun and chat during the show or movie. Watch Party is bringing people together in the comfort of our own living room,” the company said in a statement.
Amazon isn’t the only company that has rolled out a social viewing feature in recent years. HBO has partnered with a browser extension called Scener, and Hulu has launched its own sync-watch feature for subscribers to its “Ad-Free” plan. While Netflix did not have this function, people streamed co-watched titles through the Netflix Party browser extension (now renamed Teleparty).
