Tag Archives: Amazon

One of the traditional items on the Jeff Bezos charge sheet is that Amazon did much much to the destroy the bookselling trade when it began as a discount online bookseller. Then it brought out Kindle, a book substitute. Well ...

Tech stocks may have taken a pounding as the world comes out of the pandemic but new figures from WARC show that Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and, increasingly, Amazon, are tightening their hold on the global ad market. ...

If you want to try the creative big league you need Amazon on the client list. An exaggeration maybe but it sure helps to have reportedly the world’s biggest advertiser at $16.9bn to hand. What’s now a pretty longstanding relationship ...

Amazon keeps knocking it out of the park: this time it’s Droga5 London for Alexa with a sweet film showing that romance ain’t dead, even if you’re getting on a bit. A subject close to Jeff Bezos’ heart presumably, as ...

Interesting that tech giants, having conquered the internet, are turning their gaze on more traditional bricks and mortar businesses. Undervalued property assets are one aspect of course but growth has to come from somewhere else too. According to reports in ...

It’s a different world out there for the tech giants – we’ve been hearing about the cozy search arrangement between Google and Appple which nets Apple “services” billions a year. Amazon, which has dodged most of the bullets so far, ...

Amazon is the world’s most valuable brand in these straightened times according to research firm Kantar, worth $415bn (up 32 per cent on last year.) The top ten is Amazon; Apple ($352bn + 14%), Microsoft ($326bn + 30%), Google ($323 ...

It seems odd to draw attention to the fact that for a long time now, Amazon has been overlooked in favour of the likes of Facebook and Google as a key media investment channel. However, that is changing fast as ...

Leaders of 145 of America’s biggest companies have signed a letter demanding background checks on gun buyers and ‘Extreme Risk’ laws following a spate of summer shootings in the US. Separately Walmart is demanding more checks: about time too as ...