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Interesting point on Amazon, I bet you're right, I use Amazon extensively.

skinnymuch 6y ago
Thanks. I was rabbit holing procrastinating yesterday. Just look at how long the OP post of mine is hah. But I am wondering how Amazon is surging to a distant 3rd place for ads. I think one reason might be that usually Microsoft (which I would think is mostly MSN, any other major site they own, and Bing) and LinkedIn are separated? I know Amazon has sponsored items in multiple places around Amazon.com. Amazon is big enough that those placements alone could put them as the distant third. But I wonder if they do anything outside that. Different note. Yahoo failed miserably at trying to compete with Google Adsense. I’m a bit surprised there’s never been a team up effort among some combo of the remaining players, or Facebook themselves trying to go at it. Adsense makes much less money than AdWords. Not sure how much less it does on top of splitting the money with the websites, but Facebook has enough ads and tech most likely. Facebook’s rep is pretty bad compared to other top tech companies, but Adsense has grumbling going on and Amazon pulled a lot of their affiliate stuff with covid19 giving them more orders than they can deal with. This would be a great time for Facebook or some combo like Facebook and Microsoft making competitors to major Google services. Namely Adsense and Analytics. Though Analytics probably isn’t worth it for Microsoft since user data isn’t as prized for them and the anti-Facebook sentiment amongst vocal Internet crowd could be enough to not make even attempting that worth it. Even though I have a hard time seeing how the current, what, 90% market share Google Analytics and 80%+ Adsense have for their markets would be any worse off with an equally user privacy offensive company (FB) joining the fray and taking 1/4 or so of the market over time. At the very least an FB[/Msft] Adsense alternative would immediately be a possible boon for people banned from Adsense or shaken up by Adsense issues. And Amazon affiliate things never coming back to how they were. Welp. Shit. This is super long too

Thanks. I was rabbit holing procrastinating yesterday. Just look at how long the OP post of mine is hah. But I am wondering how Amazon is surging to a distant 3rd place for ads. I think one reason might be that usually Microsoft (which I would think is mostly MSN, any other major site they own, and Bing) and LinkedIn are separated? I know Amazon has sponsored items in multiple places around Amazon.com. Amazon is big enough that those placements alone could put them as the distant third. But I wonder if they do anything outside that. Different note. Yahoo failed miserably at trying to compete with Google Adsense. I’m a bit surprised there’s never been a team up effort among some combo of the remaining players, or Facebook themselves trying to go at it. Adsense makes much less money than AdWords. Not sure how much less it does on top of splitting the money with the websites, but Facebook has enough ads and tech most likely. Facebook’s rep is pretty bad compared to other top tech companies, but Adsense has grumbling going on and Amazon pulled a lot of their affiliate stuff with covid19 giving them more orders than they can deal with. This would be a great time for Facebook or some combo like Facebook and Microsoft making competitors to major Google services. Namely Adsense and Analytics. Though Analytics probably isn’t worth it for Microsoft since user data isn’t as prized for them and the anti-Facebook sentiment amongst vocal Internet crowd could be enough to not make even attempting that worth it. Even though I have a hard time seeing how the current, what, 90% market share Google Analytics and 80%+ Adsense have for their markets would be any worse off with an equally user privacy offensive company (FB) joining the fray and taking 1/4 or so of the market over time. At the very least an FB[/Msft] Adsense alternative would immediately be a possible boon for people banned from Adsense or shaken up by Adsense issues. And Amazon affiliate things never coming back to how they were. Welp. Shit. This is super long too