Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate engaged in e-commerce, retail, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, entertainment, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company started as an online book marketplace that gradually expanded to include virtually all consumer products as well as many other categories, positioned as "The Everything Store". Wikipedia
Website: www.aboutamazon.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:AMZN
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- Nov 4: Has Amazon Ads been marking its own homework a little too generously? The company announced that it is to change the way it counts ad display impressions, according to a note from Amazon posted to LinkedIn. "Today, we count an (ad) impression when the ad starts to download to the shopper's device. Starting Jan 1, 2027, we will count an impression once the ad appears on the shopper's screen". It warns advertisers that they'll see, on average 63% lower ad impressions as a result. As PPCLand suggests, Amazon is implying that "most of the display impressions currently counted on these placements never reach a screen"; and points out that Google's AdSense also calculates ad impressions the same way. That rather puts the current argument about podcast downloads vs plays (we think there's a 13% difference between the two) in a different light...
- Oct 28: MeidasTouch Network has launched a 24/7 news channel, working with Swerve TV. The television channel was launched yesterday on Amazon Prime Video and Fire TV.
- Oct 26: Podcast Days 2026 took place in Madrid, Spain. The event featured representatives from Acast, Oxford Road, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, as well as a number of Spanish-language podcasters.
- Oct 9: Podcast Advertising - The Game was available for delegates at the Sounds Profitable Business Summit, but it's a fun game for the podcaster in your Christmas present list. The good news is - the game is now available from Amazon. "Fake brands, real laughs" is the promise! It's made by the folks at ADOPTER Media.
- Oct 8: Global ad spend is to grow by 11.9% this year, according to new data from WARC Media. Online audio should grow +9.9% to $16.6bn globally this year, and a further +7.5% next year. The market research company also says that Amazon, Alphabet and Meta will take a combined market share of 59.7% of all ad revenue (excluding China).
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