Many areas for ads – but Prime Video isn’t one of them
Amazon has growth opportunities for its ad business aside from adding inventory. Amazon is focused on improving its ad platform products and reporting capabilities for brands and agencies, said Dave Fildes, director of investor relations.
Don’t expect Amazon to open up Prime Video, the ad-free library where most of its media consumption occurs. Amazon’s share of attention hours for TV and streaming video is increasing, but the Prime Video library is too strong of a performer for the overall loyalty program, improving renewal rates and overall platform engagement (aka ecommerce sales) when subscribers are regular viewers.
Amazon’s overall sales increased 20% annually to $72.4 billion in Q4. Its profit in the quarter jumped to $3 billion, and its full-year profits rose from $3 billion in 2017 to $10.1 billion last year.
Amazon is also making strong headway with smart devices and the Prime subscription program, which added more new sign-ups last year than any previous year, though Amazon doesn’t break out its Prime membership numbers.
The number of devices with Alexa built in doubled last year, according to Amazon’s earnings release, with Amazon’s Echo Dot the best-selling item on Amazon worldwide, selling millions more devices than the year before, when it was also the top seller. Amazon did not specify how many devices it sold.
This post was syndicated from Ad Exchanger.
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