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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- Feb 13: Exclusive: Amazon’s Wondery has closed its operations in Mexico and in Brazil. Podnews understands that the closure was announced in a short staff meeting earlier this week. Those impacted include Sarah Barrett, the company’s Head of Mexico Podcast Content. It comes the same week as some of Wondery Mexico’s shows were nominated for the Ondas Globales awards; and the LATAM units own a successful YouTube page with more than 500,000 subscribers.
- Feb 7: Livewire also posted the top podcast tracking services - Chartable’s closure not resulting in any significant growth for other companies - and use of CDNs, with Amazon Cloudfront and Cloudflare both showing record share.
- Jan 27: Further reading: The FT highlight “The podcast bros who helped put Trump back in the White House” ... EarBuds focuses on podcast episode recommendations about neurodiversity, exploring everything ADHD, autism, and more ... Amazon Music held India Pod Day in Mumbai last week. ... The Relay FM podcast network is now simply Relay, with a new logo and revised artwork.
- Jan 15: Radio and podcast directory service TuneIn has apparently made another 25 layoffs this week. Earlier this month, TuneIn erroneously removed a number of radio stations in the UK; and as Podnews covered in December, the company hasn’t accepted new podcasts for almost twelve months after multiple rounds of layoffs. Along with the TuneIn app, companies like Amazon, Apple, Google and many auto manufacturers rely on TuneIn’s directory.
- Dec 17, 2024:
Magellan AI released the top podcast advertisers for November 2024. BetterHelp once again hit #1 spot, with $8.6mn spent; Amazon was at #2, and T-Mobile at #3. The biggest mover was Bartesian, a cocktail maker that, just like a Nespresso,
takes all the joy and fun out of crafting a drinkmakes a drink at the touch of a button.
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