Amazon has filed for AmazonTube trademark as fight with YouTube gets pettier
Amazon applied for an “AmazonTube” trademark earlier this week, according to a filing found by TV Answer Man, as the company’s public feud with Google over accessing YouTube content on Amazon’s devices continues to escalate.
While there’s not a lot of information about what AmazonTube might be, based on the trademark application’s description of “providing non-downloadable pre-recorded audio, visual and audiovisual works via wireless networks on a variety of topics of general interest,” it sure sounds like a YouTube competitor.
TechCrunch notes that Amazon has also applied for a trademark on “OpenTube”, as well, which, if anything, is a more blatant name for what Google is looking to accomplish here. It’s also not the first time that...