Amazon Officially Announces Its October Prime Day Dates for 2025

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Amazon has officially locked successful the dates for its 2nd Prime exclusive buying spree of the year, Prime Big Deal Days, besides known arsenic "October Prime Day", volition tally from October 7 to 8.

Unlike July’s marathon four-day blowout (because seemingly 48 hours wasn’t capable chaos), this one’s dialing things backmost to the “classic”, but inactive misnomered, two-day format.

These days, October Prime Day sits comfortably successful the buying lawsuit large leagues, close down July’s extravaganza and Black Friday successful some size and hype. And, existent to form, it’s inactive members-only; if you don’t person Prime, you’re not getting successful the club.

Many of the discounts won’t reappear until Black Friday, truthful if you’ve got your oculus connected thing shiny, this could beryllium your archetypal (and perchance best) changeable astatine snagging it.

Here's What to Expect from Amazon's Next Prime Exclusive Sale

October Prime Day has turned into the cleanable warm-up enactment earlier Black Friday brings full-on deal-induced carnage. Amazon loves to propulsion retired discounts successful October that mysteriously vanish travel November, which makes this merchantability much than conscionable a filler, it’s fundamentally a cheat time for bargain hunters.

And Amazon’s not the lone 1 itching for your wallet. Best Buy, Walmart, and Target volition astir surely rotation retired their ain “totally coincidental” income the week of October 6, each designed to one-up each different and beryllium they, too, tin merchantability you an aerial fryer for fractional off. In short, there’ll beryllium nary shortage of places to impulse-buy worldly you didn’t cognize you needed.

Amazon’s already rolling retired immoderate aboriginal bait; Pokemon cards, PS5 hits similar Madden NFL 26, iPhone 17 accessories, and more. But the existent amusive begins erstwhile October Prime Day officially kicks off.

Sure, you’ll get the accustomed boring-but-practical discounts connected batteries and favored food, but the existent treasures are the highly anticipated (but not yet confirmed) 3-for-2 offers connected 4K Blu-rays, books, and different carnal media. Yes, carnal media is live and well, and Prime Day is 1 of the champion times of the twelvemonth to pad retired that collection.

On the tech side, support an oculus retired for AirPods Pro 2 terms drops present that the AirPods Pro 3 are stealing the spotlight. And don’t slumber connected refurbished and “Used - Like New” gaming cogwheel either, past clip around, the PlayStation Portal plunged to $125 and the PS5 Pro dipped to astir $500. If past repeats itself, those kinds of deals could beryllium backmost connected the table, and good worthy feasting connected ASAP.

Amazon Prime Day Freebies To Look Out For

Amazon besides has a wont of dangling escaped memberships and perks during Prime Day, truthful it’s worthy keeping an oculus retired for deals connected subscriptions similar Audible, Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Music Unlimited, and Prime Gaming.

For September 2025, Prime Gaming members tin already drawback escaped PC games including Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, the Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft series, and Into the Breach. Later this month, much titles are connected the way, specified arsenic Afterimage, Pixel Cafe, Residual, and FATE: The Cursed King, but we'll fto you cognize with immoderate updates for October arsenic well.

Amazon Prime for Young Adults

Six-month proceedings earlier renewing astatine $7.49 per month.

But the champion freebie of all? That’s reserved for younger shoppers. Amazon’s “Prime for Young Adults” woody is fundamentally a cheat codification if you’re betwixt 18 and 24, oregon a student.

You get a six-month proceedings for $0, past a half-price subscription astatine conscionable $7.49 per period oregon $69 per year. No stripped-down mentation either, this is the afloat Prime experience.

That means Prime Video with upcoming tentpoles similar Fallout Season 2 (December 17) and Gen V Season 2 (September 17), each the accustomed accelerated shipping perks, and Prime Gaming bonuses similar monthly freebies, in-game loot, and a Twitch sub for whichever streamer you’ve irrationally decided to enactment this month.

Do the mathematics and that escaped proceedings unsocial saves you astir $90. Honestly, it’s 1 of the champion Prime deals Amazon ever offers. And yeah, I’m bitter I aged retired of it.

But also, beryllium astute astir signing up for immoderate subscriptions: Turn disconnected auto-renew, acceptable a reminder if you request to, and marque definite you’re not paying a penny much than required.

Shop October Prime Day oregon Wait for Black Friday?

Black Friday mightiness inactive look similar the king of sales, but which is really better: Prime Day oregon Black Friday? There's lone 1 mode to find out, FIGHT!!! (While I hate explaining a joke, that was a Harry Hill's TV Burp reference, for those excessively young oregon excessively American to recognize my consciousness of humor).

Er, yea truthful October Prime Day! Amazon, Target, Walmart, and the remainder of the retail Avengers are lining up close present to plaything the discount hammer earlier November adjacent arrives. But here’s the large question: are these “Prime” deals really worthy it, oregon is Black Friday inactive the heavyweight champ?

Both income events emotion dangling shiny big-ticket temptations, deliberation Apple Watches, iPads, and 4K TVs, and it’s not ever evident which 1 cuts deeper. Tariffs bouncing backmost into play this August haven’t precisely helped either, making deal-hunting consciousness similar a interaction sport.

The drawback with Prime Day is, well, you request Prime. That’s $14.99 a period oregon $139 a twelvemonth (or £8.99 per period oregon £95 a twelvemonth successful the UK) unless you’re a fresh-faced newbie who tin drawback the 30-day escaped proceedings and scoop up each the October 7–8 bargains (or, arsenic I mentioned, adjacent a caller faced under-24 y/o who tin container zero-cost six period proceedings arsenic well).

Black Friday, meanwhile, simply wins retired connected scale. Everyone piles in, from mega-retailers to random shops hopeless to wide stock, which means fierce contention and sweeter prices connected big-ticket tech similar gaming consoles and laptops. That’s wherefore Black Friday inactive tends to borderline retired Prime Day successful that department, adjacent if rival income person started muscling successful connected Amazon’s turf.

On the flip side, Prime Day is laser-focused connected Amazon and its buddies, which makes it cleanable for grabbing Amazon’s ain toys. Fire TVs, Echo speakers, Kindles, and they’re typically discounted up of clip arsenic well. So if you’re already paying for Prime (or you’re blessed to pain that escaped trial), you tin container immoderate hefty savings without waiting for Black Friday chaos.

Prime Video’s 2025 Champions League Fixtures Confirmed

Only for the UK, oregon entree via a VPN

Amazon has besides nailed down its UEFA Champions League broadcast docket for the remainder of the twelvemonth successful the UK, conscionable up of the opening circular of fixtures:

September 16 - Tottenham Hotspur vs Villarreal
September 30 - Galatasaray vs Liverpool
October 21 - Arsenal vs Atlético de Madrid
November 4 - Liverpool vs Real Madrid
November 25 - Chelsea vs Barcelona
December 9 - Inter Milan vs Liverpool

As with erstwhile seasons, 1 lucifer volition aerial exclusively connected Prime Video each Tuesday of a Champions League gameweeks, with Prime members getting entree astatine nary other cost.

Of course, if you’re extracurricular the UK, this is wherever a VPN comes successful handy. Got one? You’re sorted. Don’t? Then cheque retired our apical VPNs for streaming successful 2025.

Amazon’s archetypal unrecorded crippled of the League Phase volition spot Thomas Frank marque his European debut with Europa League champions Tottenham Hotspur facing Villarreal connected September 16. Liverpool follows connected September 30 successful their opener against Galatasaray.

And if you’re successful the US, you besides tin drawback Champions League enactment connected Paramount+, which is presently moving a limited-time deal: 50% disconnected an yearly subscription until September 18, disposable to some caller and existing subscribers.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.

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Sep 16, 2025 5:00 am

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