Amazon launched Brown Sugar, the new subscription-video-on-demand service featuring African-American movies.
Amazon.com on Tuesday launched Brown Sugar, the new subscription-video-on-demand service featuring what it calls the biggest collection of the « baddest » African-American movies for its prime members.
Prime customers would receive a seven-day free trial to access the service at BrownSugar.com and on other devices paying $3.99 per month thereafter, Amazon said in a statement.
The Brown Sugar website tagline describes itself as « a black explosion of hot chicks, cool cats and cult classics. » Its portfolio of movies include Blacula, Black Caesar, Cotton Comes to Harlem, and Foxy Brown, among others.
The announcement comes at a time when online video-streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime are competing to gain traction among young viewers who are shying away from traditional television services .
Brown Sugar, run by African-American TV network Bounce, would be available on Apple TV, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Kindle and web browsers via BrownSugar.com.
