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Travels by Narrowboat
Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
Well here is another direction I recently learned about: Amazon Prime Video Direct:
https://videodirect.amazon.com/home/help?topicId=G201978440
I found one YouTube creator who moved his videos to Vimeo on Demand and then to Prime Video Direct. I think you can choose to require viewers pay for your video, or have them included for free for Prime members, where the pay is $.06 / hour of viewing (it used to be $.15 / hour).
Anyway, it's an interesting alternative for content creators, as long as their videos are high quality. The pay is certainly much better than YouTube, so I have a lot of sympathy for this route. Plus it's like YouTube Premium in that there are no ads.
I'm not sure if Amazon will actively promote these videos, so I suspect YouTube remains king for discovery.
Here are the videos:
https://www.youtube.com/user/CountryHouseGent
https://www.amazon.com/Travels-by-Narrowboat/dp/B07S6CK8MW