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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- Aug 5: One of the biggest and most successful podcast producers, Wondery, is to be restructured by Amazon, laying off a reported 110 people including the company’s CEO, Jen Sargent. Wondery was bought by Amazon at the end of 2020 for $300mn, then doubled its staff. It currently has around 360 published shows.
- Aug 4: Riverside’s RSS feeds don’t set open CORS headers. Audio URLs use Cloudflare for an initial analytics redirect; but the audio itself is hosted on Amazon S3 via Amazon Cloudfront, like the vast majority of podcast hosts.
- Aug 1: Mullvad VPN sells vouchers via Amazon Australia: a voucher removes any potential link between an anonymous VPN account and the credit card used to pay for it.
- Jul 31: Magellan AI says there’s a new biggest podcast advertiser in the US - and it’s not BetterHelp or Amazon. It’s Toyota: the car maker hitting $5.7mn in spend in June.
- Jul 29: Retailers should give audio a starring role in their media advertising plans, says Westwood One’s Pierre Bouvard, highlighting advertising for this year’s Amazon Prime Day.
Data credits: Podnews newsletter, Wikipedia