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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- Sep 29: In London's Leicester Square, a large ad for Acast-hosted An Excellent Fit. This billboard is often used to promote shows on Spotify and on Amazon Music. Hey, Apple Podcasts, you okay, hon?
- Sep 17: The Amazon Music app now supports more video podcasts, including shows from ART19, Triton Digital and Flightcast. Shows are delivered through HLS video. Video podcasts are available for Amazon Music users across the US, Canada, UK, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan. In May this year, we were told Amazon Music uses the alternate enclosure in RSS feeds.
- Sep 11: Substack has also published download and view numbers from the Organizing Things podcast, which launched last week on the platform. The first week got 10,385 downloads - "entirely organic, no paid promotion or ad spend". What's the secret of its success? The show's co-host Shea Serrano is a five-time NYT best-seller, and was previously with Amazon and Wondery; and already had 128,000 subscribers to his newsletter: so that might be a factor.
- Sep 9: Ray Harkins has become Head of Podcasts at Mynt Agency. "I am SO happy to roll with the team of audio nerds into the future," he writes. He was previously at ART19 and Amazon, and hosts the music podcast 100 Words or Less.
- Aug 28: YouTube announced that YouTube Shopping Creators can now tag Amazon products in the YouTube Shopping Affiliate Program. It's available for eligible US creators only, and only visible in select countries and regions and on select surfaces.
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