Amazon Prime

Holiday results push Amazon value over $1 Trillion
A busy holiday period helped Amazon to record sales last quarter as its cloud services and advertising arms become increasingly profitable. The gains, outlaid in the latest quarterly results, helped offset increasing shipping costs as the ecommerce giant strives for same day Prime delivery in the US. Download: Which-50’s Simple Fast

Alexa, When is Amazon Prime Day 2019?
Amazon’s artificial holiday sale is underway in Australia. Amazon Prime Day was launched in 2015 and first held in Australia in 2018. At the time it was the company’s biggest sales day since launching a local presence in Australia in December 2017. The ecommerce giant, which recently celebrated its 25th

Amazon adds music streaming service for its Australian Prime members
From today, Amazon Prime will include Prime Music, a music streaming service similar to Spotify and Apple music, as the ecommerce giant continues to fill out its premium offering in Australia. New and existing Prime customers will now be able to stream a catalogue of more than two million songs

Prime Video & HBO Now have a churn problem, Netflix not so much
Video streaming services such as Amazon Prime and HBO Now are experiencing increased increased churn rates in key markets such as the UK and US, according to a new consumer survey from Juniper Research. According to the report abandonment rates outpaced adoption for Amazon Prime (-2.9 per cent) and HBO

Amazon Prime Launches, New Threat for Retailers
Australians will now be able to join the 100 million Amazon paid members around the world. On Tuesday the ecommerce giant launched its local paid membership program, Amazon Prime, offering customers free two day delivery on eligible products for an annual fee of $59. And as with Amazon’s cautious approach

Amazon’s financial result is scary for some – but not for the reasons investors imagine
Amazon Prime, a $US99 a month subscription package that provides delivery services and streaming media, has attracted 54 million US members and reaches 51 per cent of the nation’s households . Amazon doesn’t provide these numbers, but a research group’s subscriber estimates are a good fit with Amazon’s most recent financials, which