Amazon Seller Events Calendar 2026: Country-Wise Sale Dates & Shipment Planning Guide
If you sell on Amazon, your calendar year isn’t really January to December — it’s Prime Day to Prime Big Deal Days to Black Friday to Diwali, and back around again. Every one of these windows can make or break a quarter, and every one of them has its own inventory cutoff, its own deal-submission deadline, […]
Prime Video Commits $2 Billion to Latin America — What the Pattern Suggests About Amazon’s Next Marketplace Moves
Amazon Prime Video announced a $2 billion investment in Latin American content between 2027 and 2030. The pattern worth naming Original Angle: Entertainment-press coverage of this story stays inside the streaming lens — new shows, local content, subscriber growth. What’s worth connecting is Amazon’s historical pattern: major Prime Video content investment in a region has […]
Forrester Names Amazon Ads the Omnichannel Leader — What the Ranking Doesn’t Tell You
Independent research firm Forrester recognized Amazon Ads as the leader in omnichannel advertising platforms in its Forrester Wave report. What “leader” actually measures — and doesn’t Original Angle: Vendor press releases about analyst rankings almost never explain the methodology weighting, because the framing benefits from the headline alone. Forrester Wave reports typically score across current-offering, […]
Amazon Joins the Consumer Goods Forum’s Human Rights Coalition — With an AI Model Worth Watching
Amazon joined The Consumer Goods Forum’s Human Rights Coalition of Action, and will co-lead a new working group focused on using data and AI to identify and respond to human rights risks. Amazon disclosed it has piloted predictive AI models trained on tens of thousands of historical social audits, achieving 90% recall in flagging high-risk […]
Amazon Increases Louisiana Investment to $18 Billion — What the Geography Tells Sellers
What Amazon announced Amazon increased its planned investment in Louisiana to $18 billion, a move the company says will create hundreds of jobs and strengthen local infrastructure. The pattern behind the announcement Original Angle: Treated in isolation, this reads as a routine regional jobs story. Placed alongside Amazon’s other 2026 infrastructure commitments — €25 billion […]
Asda and Amazon Ads Sign UK-First Ad-Tech Partnership — What It Means for UK Sellers
What Amazon announced Amazon Ads and Asda announced a UK-first retail media and ad-tech partnership, intended to open new advertising opportunities for brands through the integration. The budget-allocation question this raises Original Angle: Coverage of retail-media partnerships like this tends to stop at “brands get new opportunities” without asking the harder question: where does this […]
Amazon Ads MCP Server Enters Open Beta — What It Removes From Your PPC Workflow
What Amazon announced Amazon Ads announced its Ads MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server is now in open beta, designed to reduce advertising workflow complexity by letting AI tools connect directly to Amazon Ads data and actions. What the announcement doesn’t spell out Original Angle: Amazon’s own description stays abstract (“reduce workflow complexity”). Translated into an […]
Amazon Introduces Alexa+ Agentic Ads — Here’s the PPC Shift Sellers Aren’t Ready For
What Amazon announced Amazon introduced Alexa+ Agentic Ads, allowing shoppers to complete purchases entirely within a conversational interface — from ordering food to buying concert tickets — without navigating to a traditional listing page. The part every ad-tech recap is missing Original Angle: Most coverage frames this as a consumer-convenience feature. For sellers, it’s a […]
Amazon Prime Air Expands to Nearly 500 US Cities — And the UK Just Got Its First Drone Delivery Site
What Amazon announced Amazon confirmed Prime Air drone delivery is expanding to nearly 500 US cities and towns this year. This follows the launch of Amazon’s first drone delivery site outside the United States, in Darlington, England — a 465,000-square-foot fulfillment centre using MK30 drones capable of delivering packages up to 5 lbs within 60 […]
Amazon’s Q2 2026 Earnings: The Infrastructure Story Sellers Are Overlooking
The headline numbers Amazon reported Q2 2026 net sales of $200.6 billion, up 20% year-over-year. AWS revenue grew 37% to $42.2 billion — its fastest growth since 2021 — beating analyst expectations of 31%. Adjusted EPS came in at $1.97 against a $1.82 estimate. CEO Andy Jassy raised the company’s full-year capital expenditure forecast to […]