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Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

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Re: Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

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Post by cheeselip420 »

So the companies that sell on Amazon pay money to Amazon (from the revenues they get from Amazon's customers) to have their products listed more favorably than competitors (one of which is actually Amazon).

I can see how this seems advantageous and monopolistic for Amazon...

Re: Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

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Post by irjustin »

Anecdotally, I was connected to a number of people on the Ads team and years ago, the upper ups in the G machine were already extremely nervous of Amazon's internal ads system.

Google has been regularly losing marketshare to Amazon because people perform searches for products directly there when previously it was done through google-search.

Re: Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

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Post by bmitc »

jesuspiece wrote: post #2

This is egregious imo. Amazon needs to be broken up

A deleted comment:

> Is it? Newspapers aren’t exactly thriving and it’s not because of Amazon.

Would you have a problem if a random local newspaper company had significant influence over what 50% of the U.S. bought, watched, read, listened to, ate, and needed for medical purposes in addition to market power that made it stay that way?

Re: Retail, search and Amazon’s $40B ‘advertising’ business

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Post by scarface74 »

cheeselip420 wrote: post #6

So the companies that sell on Amazon pay money to Amazon (from the revenues they get from Amazon's customers) to have their products listed more favorably than competitors (one of which is actually Amazon). I can see how this seems advantageous and monopolistic for Amazon...

Or the same thing every company in retail has done forever
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