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Research: Amazon takes 60% of US smart speaker purchases

Parks Associates’ Consumer Insights Dashboard: Tech Ecosystem Dashboard study reveals 51 per cent of US internet households report owning a smart speaker and/or display. Among those households that purchased or received a new smart speaker in the past six months, 60 per cent chose an Amazon-branded device, 18 per cent chose a Google product, and […]

October 2, 2025

Project Kuiper’s next launch on Oct 8

Amazon’s Project Kuiper plans to see its next batch of broadband satellites launched on October 8th, subject to the usual weather limitations. The launch will be handled by SpaceX on one of its Falcon 9 rockets. 24 satellites will be carried to low Earth orbit. The launch, dubbed KF-03, will use the Falcon 9’s first […]

October 2, 2025By Chris Forrester

Prime Video outlines Young Adult slate

Prime Video has revealed more from its upcoming slate of young adult (YA) series and movies at an exclusive event which brought together stars from some of Prime Video’s most successful originals across Europe and Latin America. Nicole Wallace, star of Prime Video’s biggest international original ever, Culpa Tuya, was announced as the lead in […]

October 2, 2025

France: Amazon slams media windowing

Prime Video France has once again blasted French media windowing and the fact it has to wait 17 months before offering new movies to its subscribers. During a Prime Video Presents press conference, managing director Christophe Deguine reiterated the platform’s position on this windowing in France, which the company isn’t signatory to. According to the […]

September 29, 2025From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Research: Amazon brands dominate preferred ad spaces

Three of consumers’ top five preferred ad platforms are Amazon brands, according to Kantar, the data and analytics company. The findings come from Media Reactions 2025, Kantar’s annual global study of the media landscape based on interviews with 21,000+ consumers and around 1,000 senior marketers. Media Reactions ranks ad platforms based on consumers’ and marketers’ […]

September 23, 2025

Kuiper will start in 5 countries in March 2026

Amazon’s broadband-by-satellite service Project Kuiper says it will have broadband coverage in five countries by March 2026. Ricky Freeman, president of Project Kuiper’s Kuiper Government Solutions division at Amazon, speaking at the Novaspace World Space Business Week event in Paris, told delegates that his firm would have more than 200 satellites in orbit by the […]

September 18, 2025By Chris Forrester

Amazon MGM Studios renews We Were Liars for Season 2

Prime Video has ordered a second season of its hit mystery-thriller series, We Were Liars. Based on the best-selling novel by E. Lockhart, We Were Liars second season will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on a date TBA. In Season 1, We Were Liars follows Cadence Sinclair Eastman and her […]

September 17, 2025

Prime Video brings Prime Vision to Champions League

Prime Video has unveiled new broadcast enhancements for football fans watching the UEFA Champions League (UCL) on Prime Video this season, with the League Phase kicking-off on September 16th. Central to this is Prime Vision, a new alternate feed to incubate and test new broadcast innovations that aim to bring fans closer to Europe’s most […]

September 16, 2025By Nik Roseveare

Arch Platform Technologies collaborates with AWS

Arch Platform Technologies (www.archpt.io), a specialist in automated, scalable cloud infrastructure for workflows, has announced a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the global availability of streamlined, cloud-native workstation environments. Modern creative, design, engineering, and scientific businesses need infrastructure that can adapt quickly. However, configuring, deploying, and managing a globally […]

September 16, 2025

Amazon Ads, Netflix partnership

Amazon Ads and Netflix have announced a partnership that provides advertisers using Amazon DSP with direct access to Netflix’s premium ad inventory. The offering will be available in the UK, the US, France, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Italy, Germany and Australia, providing availability for marketers using Amazon DSP in these countries. The new integration […]

September 11, 2025