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Amazon Is Pocketing Half of Retailers’ Sales
Merchants on Amazon Marketplace are paying the company a commission fee of more than 50% of each sale. A new report by Marketplace Pulse revealed Amazon raised the total cost sellers are required to pay out toward storage fees at company warehouses, packaging and delivery, and advertising on the site.
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Why Elon’s Twitter Subscriptions Are Missing the Point
Controversy sells. For a long time, there has been no place where this is more true than on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Controversy and conflict keep you clicking, commenting, and generating the data about yourself that is used to sell ads. Every day, it becomes more obvious that the intertwined model of…
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Duopoly Done: Google and Meta Now Take in Less Than Half the Internet’s Ad Dollars
There are a lot of reasons the duopoly is in decline, but my two favourites start with the letter ‘A’. Perhaps you’ve heard of them: Amazon and Apple.
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Elon Promises Twitter Blue Subscribers Will See Half the Ads Normies Do
Twitter may be the one place online where you might be seeing fewer ads in the future — assuming you cough up $US8 a month. Elon Musk tweeted late Monday that Twitter Blue subscribers “will have half the number of ads,” and said the company will offer an even more expensive tier for the site…