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". Amazon has been described as a Big Tech company. Wikipedia
Website: www.aboutamazon.com
Symbol: NASDAQ:AMZN
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- Dec 19, 2025: Ben Cave from Apple Podcasts underscores that podcasts are open by design; and teases us that the platform will "continue to innovate with new features". Buzzsprout's Jordan Blair highlights that we'll see an "absolute brick wall of AI fatigue"; Roman Wasenmüller from Spotify focuses on what he calls the authenticity and loyalty that has shaped podcasting; Shea Simpson from Amazon says that video will continue to evolve; Ellie from Pocket Casts wants to see more podcasters adopting new Podcasting 2.0 features; and slightly worryingly, Megan Lazovick from Edison Research threatens that the Infinite Dial presentation next year might be a musical. We hope she's joking. Tell us she's joking. The full set of guests are available wherever you get your podcasts.
- Dec 5, 2025: Amazon Music released its 2025 Delivered recap earlier in the week. The company released data of the top podcasts for 2025, in a number of countries - we’ve a list of some of those countries here. In Japan, three of the top five were from TBS Radio.
- Nov 7, 2025: Advertisers using Amazon DSP now have access to iHeart’s streaming audio portfolio, after a deal between the two companies.
- Oct 29, 2025: Amazon is to cut 14,000 corporate jobs, and has warned of further cuts next year. It’s yet another set of cuts for the company: just within podcasting, it had cut 110 jobs at Wondery in August; a “small number” at Wondery in March; and closed Wondery’s entire operations in Mexico and Brazil in February. The cuts were announced before affected employees were individually told; Amazon’s share price rose 1% on the news. Apparently AI will replace some of the roles, which will be lost across the business.
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