I'm glad you asked! 

The main thing is that Friends has way, WAY more content than any of those services ever will. The reason is mainly due to licensing: when we license a movie, the licensor or distributor may have requirements that the site is only allowed on our site, or on our O&O platforms (owned and operated). That means there are some riffs that will never go up to Amazon, period.

Another thing to keep in mind is all of those services take a large cut of the revenue. We may get 70%, if we're lucky, or in the case of Amazon, 10% or less - especially for riffs that are "Free with Prime." Those views count for pennies on the dollar, and so we've actually scaled way back the volume of content available there without a purchase. 

However, we do collect ad revenue and also a revenue share based on minutes streamed; this is how the majority of streaming services work. It's not a lot, compared to a Friends subscription, in which 100% of your payment goes directly to support us and help keep the company afloat and allow us to keep doing what we do.

Aside from all this business-y stuff, we've worked very hard to make Friends the best place to stream RiffTrax. You can watch a random riff with the "Rand-O-Riff" button, enjoy your entire Library of purchased video content, as well as create a playlist (on the site or FireTV) and watch the entire list of riffs all in a row. We also create curated, hand-crafted playlists each month with rotating favorites, like "National Family Month" and "International Animal Day."

On top of that you also get a 5% discount on the RiffTrax website, just for being a Friend.

The name says it all - we're a small company that wouldn't still be around if it weren't for our loyal, amazing customers, and we like to think we're all besties (or at least, platonic acquaintances) - hopefully these are all reasons enough why Friends is worth your subscription dollars.

Thank you for being a Friend!