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The following is a closed discussion of arequested move.Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider amove review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was:Moved as proposed. There was some opposition, stating that "Prime Video" was the correct name and more concise, but overall there is a rough evidenced consensus amongst those in the discussion that "Amazon Prime Video" is both the common name, and more recognizable, satisfyingWP:CRITERIA. — Amakuru (talk)12:45, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Prime Video →Amazon Prime Video – Even though "Amazon" is not in the official logo for the service, whenever the service is mentioned, people usually just refer to it by saying "Amazon Prime" or simply "Amazon". Obviously neither of those phrases can be the title of this article, but "Amazon Prime Video" encompasses everything needed for the name of the streaming service, especially "Amazon".JE98 (talk)04:06, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Wikipedians' obsession with arbitrary corporate branding of encyclopedia articles. There is no other reason, and there is no problem. As the nominator said, it is alreadyWP:NATURAL and it is in fact alreadyWP:COMMON. The nominator provided no proof at all that there is any problem or even any reason, and "people" most definitely do not use the name of a membership and shipping service to refer to streaming video. This is a wrong solution in search of a problem. —Smuckola(talk)19:33, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support as common name. For example, putting "Prime Video" in Google News shows "Amazon Prime Video" far more often than not. It's obvious in the real world that "Prime Video" is simply not recognizable enough perWP:CRITERIA.Erik (talk | contrib)(ping me)19:28, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
One single reliable source using the term isn't demonstration of it as a theWP:COMMONNAME, a big sample of reliable sources is necessary to assess which one is the common name. —El Millo (talk)02:36, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Surely if you consider the argument in support of the move is poor, you shouldn't just put forth an argumentalmost equally poor in opposition to it. —El Millo (talk)03:37, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
That's what I've seen onThe Hollywood Reporter andDeadline articles as well. They use "Amazon Prime Video" as some sort of full name, then simply call it "Prime Video" for short. —El Millo (talk)17:01, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
"Amazon Prime Video" isnt a full name or any sort of name; Prime Video is the only name (WP:NATURAL), and "Amazon" on the front is simply the brand like a redundant adjective. It's not even an Amazon variety of Prime Video, like a granny smith apple, as there is no variety or ambiguity. It's just compulsory branding which is journalistic but unencyclopedic. They are simply giving a basic language modifier, not actually magically renaming it, and there couldn’t be a reason to do so. I know you already know that as per your original comment; I’m just clarifying your verbiage for the group because almost everybody here impulsively misunderstands that in addition to total failure to prove the proposal in the first place, including Erik misunderstanding your example. Your example, the only example, also demonstratesWP:COMMON and common sense. —Smuckola(talk)18:19, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for agreeing with us about WP:NATURAL, which says,"Using an alternative name that the subject is also commonly called in English reliable sources, albeit not as commonly as the preferred-but-ambiguous title." You are saying that "Amazon Prime Video" is being used in reliable sources frequently, and we concur with that. And guess what! Android users seeAmazon Prime Video, and Apple users seeAmazon Prime Video. It's almost as if journalists and companies agree that just "Prime Video" isn't clear enough text to be recognizable. Will you be digging in further?Erik (talk | contrib)(ping me)22:50, 30 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
With this bad faith twisted mind game, and theatrically willful misunderstanding and projecting of the words of other people, you forfeit the discussion. —Smuckola(talk)21:31, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed.Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The following is a closed discussion of arequested move.Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider amove reviewafter discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was:not moved. Editors opposing argued that it was not clear that the proposed target was theWP:COMMONNAME, with Zzyzx11 providing a number of sources still using "Amazon Prime Video". This argument was not rebutted.(non-admin closure)TarnishedPathtalk07:06, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose for now. as it it still not clear to me if the shorter "Prime Video" is now theWP:COMMONNAME. I am still seeing a substantial amount of third-party sources published within the past few weeks that still use the full "Amazon Prime Video".[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Thus, IMO it is still too soon for a name change at this time.Zzyzx11 (talk)20:36, 26 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support since Prime Video was widely available internationally as compared to Amazon, in which the storefront still haven't expand their operations other than some markets like Japan, India and Singapore where they currently got their own Amazon storefront within Asia.VernardoLau (talk)06:41, 29 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: So far, nobody who has voted "support" has cited any contradictorythird-party evidence to rebut my "oppose" comment that it is still 'WP:TOOSOON' for a name change. So here are more third-party sources that were published within the past week that still use the full "Amazon Prime Video":[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]Zzyzx11 (talk)22:49, 4 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support. It clearly is the common and official name, called that onthe Amazon website itself. As for the confusion with other streaming platforms, I can't even think of one that is called "Prime Video", so I'm not sure what other users are getting at. I always thought it was weird that it was called "Amazon Prime Video" on here, rather than "Prime Video." It never made sense to me, and it continues to baffle my mind as to why it is used (the one user who cites third party sources is nice, but the official siteoverrides those sources, sorry to say). It needs to be changed.Historyday01 (talk)15:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. While nom claims that thecommon name no longer includes the wordAmazon, the evidence they and others cite for this isall from primary sources that use theofficial name. No evidence has been given supporting a move in terms ofpolicy.Andrewa (talk)00:17, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed.Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
***NOTE TO EDITORS: Please refer to our streaming service as Prime Video and not Amazon Prime Video***
Here's the funny thing about COMMONNAME: if we're measuring "recognizability" based on usage in reliable sources, and these sources simply defer to what Amazon's marketing team is telling them to use (for fear of having their press badges revoked), then the common name will just end up being the name Amazon wants to use, and that completes the circle where we just end up following Amazon's preferred marketing name after all. We shall see whether these sources follow Amazon's explicitly and sternly worded instructions.
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