Here’s a question – How did last year’s revenue compare to this? If you’re curious, maybe you could just ask this question out loud. Perhaps you could find out if your meeting your sales targets by the color of your desk lamp. These natural interactions are part of a brand new interface to query the […]
Back in September, it was announced by PullString the availability of its conversational computing platform for chatbots, talking dolls, and other uses. The San Francisco-based company said this week that their platform is available to developers of skills (applications, basically) for Amazon’s intelligent voice, Alexa. The ability to create and publish Alexa voice-based skills points toward new ways that brands are […]
It’s a bit of a surprising that Amazon has found such success with their Alexa devices. In response to it, Google decided to develop Google Home to compete with Alexa. rumors about a stand-alone Apple Siri device have been thrown around as well. Will Microsoft respond in kind? Looks like there already is one. This is […]
In an analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research partners (CIRP), we are told that Amazon has sold 51 million Echo devices int he US since it first launched in 2014. Something else that CIRP stated is the level of awareness of the virtual assistant unit has dramatically increased in the past year. According to CIRP, about 70 […]
New data that comes out of Feedvisor, an e-commerce platform that works with Amazon’s third-party sellers about Amazon customers. According to over 1,500 US-based Amazon shoppers this past summer, half of those surveyed who identified as Prime members, gave valuable information for their Amazon User Study 2016. About 30 percent of Prime members said that they order […]
Google’s new Google Home assistant has been released this week, and is rival to the Amazon Echo. Both of voice activated, so is it possible for them to talk to each other? In fact, the answer is yes. They can keep talking to each other without end, assuming that you arrange things right. Danny Sullivan discoveered this in […]
There isn analysis that was done by Consumer Inteligence Research Partners (CIRP) that reports that Amazon Prime has 65 million US members, which is up from 63 million Prime members in July. CIRP says that 52 percent of US Amazon customers are Prime members. This number remains unchanged from the figures that were released by CIRP […]
Over the last several years, steps have been taken by Amazon to crack down on fake paid reviews on its marketplace. Over 1,000 individuals have been sued by Amazon, and websites and buyers have been accused of dealing in fake reviews. Amazon is now saying that incentivized reviews will only be available through the Amazon Vine program. Previous to this week’s […]
Amazon has been making a nice push to sell more of their Alexa-enabled devices with “Alexa Moments,” which is a new ad campaign that launched on October 3rd, and features over 100 different spots in rotation over the next few months. Amazon has said that the ad campaign was inspired by the “unique, creative ways […]
Recently, a consumer survey was conducted on behalf of BloomReach, a retail personalization platform, and it was found that Amazon has increased its lead as the product search engine for US consumers. It was reported last year that 44 percent of their search for products was on Amazon. This year, it’s 55. The “State of […]