Amazon
Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, the company originally started as an online marketplace for books but gradually expanded its offerings to include a wide range of product categories, referred to as "The Everything Store". Today, Amazon is considered one of the Big Five American technology companies, the other four being Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Wikipedia
Website: www.aboutamazon.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:AMZN
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- Jul 14: UK audio awards the APAs from AudioUK has announced its Pay What You Can scheme, which offers free or discounted entry to the awards and to the ceremony for those who otherwise would not be able to do so due to financial constraints. The scheme supporters are Amazon Music and Wondery.
- Jul 3: The total number of new podcast episodes published in June was 4.7% fewer than in May on a normalised basis, says Livewire. Spotify for Creators saw a small decrease, but still retained its leading market share of 26.6% of new episodes. Spreaker (at 15%) and Buzzsprout (at 8.7%) saw increases in share, as did Podbean and Libsyn. Amazon Cloudfront still serves the majority of podcast episodes (now 60.79% of them).
- Jul 1: Magellan AI released its May 2025 rankings for top podcast advertisers. Top spenders in the US were BetterHelp, Amazon and Unilever; McDonald’s saw the biggest budget increase last month.
- Jun 20: सोपान is a career podcast in Hindi - and this week, Debashish sits down with former Amazon Technical Program Manager Dharni Dhar Dwivedi, who shares his remarkable journey across multiple technical roles. From SDM to TPM to PMT at Amazon, Dharni breaks down the differences between these roles and offers a clear-eyed view of how leadership in tech really works.
- Jun 2: In terms of CDNs used, Amazon Cloudfront hosts 60.7% of all podcast episodes (including the Podnews Daily).
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