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YouTube TV finally makes its way to Amazon Fire TV devices (Updated)
July 31, 2025
Update, June 04, 2025 (3:35 PM ET):The YouTube TV app is now officially available on many Amazon Fire TV devices. We updated the article with all of the relevant information.
In apress releaseposted this April,Amazonannounced that two things were happening few of us would have expected: Google’s YouTube and YouTube TV apps were coming toAmazon Fire TVand Amazon’s Prime Video app was coming toGoogle’s Chromecastand Android TV devices.
After months of waiting, Google’s cord-cutting serviceYouTube TVjust landed on many of Amazon’s Fire TV devices like the Fire TV Stick 4K, the new Fire TV Cube, and many more. Support for Prime Video on Google devices arrived in July, but we are still waiting to see support forYouTubeand YouTube Kids on Amazon Fire TV devices.
For a long time, Google only allowed the YouTube apps on Android TV devices,Apple TV(post-second-gen), and a few others, with Chromecasts having casting abilities. Eventually, Google rolled out the YouTube app toRokudevices but still kept it off Amazon Fire TV devices until YouTube TV arrived this morning.
Likewise, Amazon’s Prime Video service was available on most media streaming boxes but not on Android TV or Chromecasts until only a few months ago.
It’s not clear how this feud between the two companies began, but Amazon earned Google’s ire when it refused to sell Chromecasts via its shopping hub.Amazon’s explanationfor that was because Chromecasts didn’t support Prime Video, which might mean Google started it.
In 2017, Amazon saidit would start selling the Chromecast soon, but didn’t officially list them for sale untilDecember last year. Before then, a search for “Chromecast” on Amazon brought you a listing of Amazon Fire TV devices.
This show of compromise between the two companies is very surprising, but we are glad to see they are making peace nonetheless.
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