30 years from Amazon founder to Venice wedding. The divorce, the Pecker extortion, the Khashoggi connection, the WaPo endorsement decision, Trump's inauguration, and the $50 million wedding — the full Bezos arc.
In 2020 the prediction was that Amazon Ads would compress the Google-Meta digital advertising duopoly. The prediction was correct and substantially understated. Amazon Ads is now a ~$60B annual business growing 20%+, the third pillar of a digital advertising triopoly. The product stack, the closed-loop attribution moat, and what the RMN wave means.
Amazon doesn't advertise to you. It indexes you. $638B in 2024 revenue, 200M+ Prime members, 30 percent of global cloud spend through AWS, the largest reviews corpus on the consumer internet, and the new agentic layer — Rufus and Alexa+ — that compresses the marketing funnel into a single conversational turn.
In September 2018 Amazon was absorbing sustained public criticism over warehouse working conditions. Bezos announced the $2B Day One Fund. Three weeks later Amazon raised the US minimum wage to $15. The two-step counter-narrative move that reset the press cycle in six weeks — and what it has produced through 2026.
The model is the crisis. The complaints are receipts. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Nintendo — four companies, $9 trillion in market cap, one employment model, same recurring labor-reputation crisis.
92,000 tech workers were laid off in the first five months of 2026. Six companies are doing the opposite — Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Palantir. Who's hiring, where, for what roles, and at what price. Annual flagship.
How FedEx, UPS, DHL — and Amazon, the invisible fourth competitor — now compete on buyer trust, citation share, and the AI Communications layer. The 2026 reference for global logistics marketing and PR strategy.
There are times when it is best to just stop typing on social media - at least for an hour or two.
Most American are familiar with Amazon.com and eBay, but many have not heard of Flipkart.
Amazon has just announced the launch of a new tool that can add fun and excitement for marketing your brand.