Get the latest and most interesting Amazon news and strategies through our Amazon Rundown. Let the first half of January help you gain deeper insights into Amazon’s tools and technologies, advertising, success and challenges, as well as other relevant updates and strategies at the beginning of 2019.
Amazon Tools and Technologies
- Amazon: Over 100 Million Alexa-Enabled Devices Have Been Sold
- Amazon Is Losing Its Grip on the Smart Speaker Market
- Amazon Turns To VR To Boost Furniture Sales
- HERE Navigation On-Demand integrates Amazon Alexa for voice-first navigation
- Amazon launched a new cloud service that’s sending MongoDB shares down
- Amazon may be going after cloud gaming, but Microsoft has a big head start
- Amazon’s IMDb Launches Its New Streaming Service
Amazon Advertising
- Amazon will soar more than 20% as it becomes a ‘third force’ in advertising behind Google and Facebook, analyst says (AMZN)
- Amazon tries to win over New Yorkers with ad campaign
- Amazon Affiliate Program – required privacy policy additions
- Amazon’s Cloud and Advertising Businesses Could Lift Profits
- Amazon’s Push Into Adtech Signals The Break Up Of An Advertising Duopoly
Amazon Success and Challenges
- Amazon’s 5 Biggest Challenges in 2019
- Amazon debuts Showroom, a visual shopping experience for home furnishings
- More trouble for Amazon after CCI’s notice to Samara Capital
- Wall Street expects Amazon to bounce back after the stock suffered its worst quarter in a decade
- Finance Expert: Amazon Should Open Gas Stations
- Why Amazon Stock Lost 11% Last Month
- The Week in Tech: Amazon’s Burning Problems
- FedEx and UPS Could Lose Billions as Amazon Air Expands
- Amazon Took Microsoft’s Top Spot – Could Other Online Retail Companies Be Next?
- Amazon Fire TV now has ‘well over’ 30 million users
Amazon Customers, Products, and Marketplace
- Amazon Struggles To Reach Gen Z Shoppers
- Some of the weirdest new products with Amazon Alexa built in — from pet feeders to toilets
- InsightLeap is the latest Seattle startup aiming to help Amazon sellers optimize their business
Amazon Latest News
- At 2019 Golden Globes, Amazon doesn’t have the prime night it hoped for
- Amazon, Walmart lobby to fight e-commerce rules
- Amazon-Google rivalry is going to heat up even more during the biggest gadget show of the year
- Did Amazon Turn Walmart Into an Even Bigger Competitor?
- Amazon once again in ‘data breach’ controversy
- Amazon Offers Product Sampling Program To Brands, Rooted In Machine Learning
- Amazon.com Should Give the SEC What It Wants
- Amazon’s house-brand products become a target for regulators
Amazon Tips and Strategies for Sellers
- How Can Small Business Owners Become Amazon Seller?
- How Fulfillment by Amazon Works (FBA)
- The Biggest Sign Yet That Automation Is Taking Over at Amazon
- Amazon is inviting sellers to private meetings at CES to promote a premium support service that costs up to $60,000 a year
- Amazon Courts Sellers With ‘Marketplace Growth’ Initiative
- ‘Brands want to own the delivery moment’: How sellers navigate Amazon’s packaging rules
- Building Amazon Sales Funnels With Facebook Ads
Amazon’s Headquarters and Employment
- Amazon looking for locals to start courier businesses to serve Gary warehouse
- Amazon contact center now supports real-time voice streaming
- Amazon’s new Nashville office designs approved, clearing the way for construction
- Amazon workers on strike in Spain
- Amazon will be a magnet for D.C.-area talent, a new survey finds. That’s not good news for current employers
