Amazon is sending its Treasure Truck to the UK where it will tour select cities as part of a marketing campaign to generate excitement and present exclusive offers for sale. The Treasure Truck will feature a limited quantity of one Read more
Amazon said customers ordered 140 million items from small businesses on its marketplaces worldwide over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It also announced that Cyber Monday was the single biggest shopping day worldwide in the company’s history. As usual, it was Read more
Amazon is offering Prime members a new perk: they can buy tickets for an early showing of a new holiday movie 12 days before its release. Prime members can purchase up to 10 tickets to the early showings of Jumanji: Read more
Even with its Kindles, Echos, and Fire Sticks, one doesn’t think of Amazon as a hardware company. But over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend extending into Cyber Monday, its Echo Dot and Amazon Fire TV Stick were the best-selling products from Read more
Amazon has considered putting delivery lockers on wheels to bring them closer to customers. Amazon lockers are an option for customers who wish to avoid the risk of front-porch theft and are located at convenience stores, Whole Foods supermarkets, and Read more
Canadians can add cash to their Amazon balance at the post office. Canadian payments provider Payment Source added Amazon Cash to its Loadhub pay-in-person solution, available at Canada Post retail locations. Company CEO Trevor Cook called the offering inclusive, saying Read more
Amazon said small businesses achieved tens of millions of pounds in sales during Amazon UK’s Black Friday Sale last year. It’s touting the importance of third-party sellers to its marketplace by publishing a dedicated page promoting six UK sellers who Read more
Online sellers are busy with Christmas only 6 weeks away. Typically marketplaces put a moratorium on changes and tests during the holiday shopping season, but not this year. Whether announced or unannounced, changes are impacting sellers on eBay, Etsy, and Read more
Amazon and eBay have made similar changes to their advertising programs for third-parties. EcommerceBytes checked in with Merkle to learn more about the approaches of the two marketplaces. Andy Taylor, Merkle’s Associate Director of Research, also discussed his firm’s recently Read more
Amazon Marketing Services is now available for brands on Amazon.ca. That means brands can open Amazon Stores and can use Amazon’s self-service portal to run pay-per-click ads to increase product discovery and brand awareness in time for the holiday shopping Read more
