#171 - Amazon's Expansive Ads Break a Record, Money Making Strategies, and more
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Amazon's Expansive Advertising Breaks New Records
Amazon’s advertising business hit another milestone in Q2 2025, capturing 9.36% of the company’s total revenue – the highest share ever recorded. At $15.69 billion in quarterly revenue, advertising continues to be Amazon’s fastest-growing segment, and at its current trajectory, could breach the symbolic 10% threshold as soon as this year.
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Was your Amazon merch on demand account terminated, here's why?
In this blog, we are talking about account termination issues on the Amazon Merch Print on Demand ("MOD") service. This can happen, for example, where you receive a DMCA takedown notice and respond with a counter-notification, and then your account gets taken down shortly thereafter, in a potential act of retaliation, which is prohibited under 17 U.S.C. 512(g). What do you do as a seller when this happens? Should you appeal their decision? What if they don't respond? Should you arbitrate the case? Let's discuss.
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Global net revenue of Amazon.com from 4th quarter 2017 to 2nd quarter 2025, by product group
In the second quarter of 2025, Amazon.com saw a ten percent increase in global net revenue across online stores when compared to the first quarter of the prior year. In terms of profitability, the online stores segment was followed by retail third-party seller services, with net revenues of 40.3 billion U.S. dollars.
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Good to Know
Vietnamese sellers crack global market with Amazon success
Originally trained in engineering and never considering himself a salesperson, Henry Nguyen, CEO & Founder of Zonone, has achieved remarkable success in the field of online exports. Zonone’s food products first appeared on Amazon in Q4 2024, generating only around $1,000 in monthly revenue. But by July 2025 - just 10 months later - its revenue had soared into the seven-figure range. Henry Nguyen shared his journey at the roundtable "Export Breakthrough - Elevating the Value of Vietnamese Brands," held on July 25 in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Amazon CEO on Tariffs: ‘It's Impossible to Know What Will Happen'
The jury may be still out on the impact of tariffs on Amazon's business, but its customers kept spending throughout the second quarter. Rehashing some of the narrative from the company's first quarter earnings call, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that despite the tariffs, the e-commerce giant has not seen diminishing demand or meaningful price appreciation in the first half of the year.
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A San Jose woman’s life was made “hell” after being inundated with hundreds of Amazon packages linked to a Chinese seller. It all “started with one package,” said the woman, who has declined to be publicly identified. She said the boxes began appearing on her doorstep last year. “I was like it’s got my address, but it’s not for me,” she told ABC 7 News under a pseudonym. “I went to my neighbors and I was like, ‘Oh, has somebody put the wrong last digit on the address?’”
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From seller to strategist: Power Brand Partners unveils new Amazon service agency
The largest marketplace in the world isn’t in any city or capital–it’s online. Amazon offers brands from around the globe the opportunity to reach interested buyers in nearly any location, expanding their reach and growing their business from the ground up. But while the platform holds boundless potential for third-party sellers, it’s crowded with thousands of nearly identical brands and products that make it tough to stand out from the fray.
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Handmade.com is a leading hand-crafts product marketplace, offering unique, seller-contributed items to customers around the world. With over 60,000 products in the catalog and some percentage of listings containing basic descriptions that could be improved for better search and search engine optimization (SEO) performance, the need for automation became evident. Manual processing, consuming on average 10 hours per week, required a team of several people to maintain baseline quality.
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Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and Amazon, which have partnered on a litigation campaign targeting fake-review brokers, recently secured their largest victory to date. The team prevailed in a major lawsuit against the operators of an illicit network that marketed the sale of fake product reviews and fraudulent Amazon seller accounts. In a recent decision, a King County Superior Court judge ordered the transfer to Amazon of more than 75 fraudulent website domains, representing Amazon's most extensive website seizure action to date.
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Amazon continues to speed up fulfillment in Q2 as sales grow
Amazon sales in Q2 reached their third-highest total to date, as CEO Andy Jassy attributed revenue growth to increases in ad revenue, faster fulfillment speeds and various types of artificial intelligence (AI) that are improving overall efficiency. In addition to AI technology, Amazon introduced a new warehouse robot, which it calls Vulcan, in its fiscal Q2, which ended June 30.
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Amazon Says Third-Party Sellers Drive 60% of eCommerce Sales
The company’s annual U.S. Small Business Empowerment Report, issued Tuesday (May 23), shows that 60% of sales on Amazon’s stores come from independent sellers, most of which are small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The report showed that these sellers sold 4.1 billion products last year, with sellers in rural areas seeing more than 40% year-over-year sales growth.
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Tips and Tricks
How to Start Dropshipping On Amazon: Tips and Tools
Amazon dropshipping is a sales channel that can yield big returns for entrepreneurs. But how exactly does Amazon dropshipping work, and how can you make it profitable for your ecommerce business? Ahead, learn how to dropship on Amazon and discover simple dropshipping tools to help you start selling today.
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Podcasts
Amazon KDP Money Making Strategies
Unlock these secret strategies for Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and transform your Amazon entrepreneurial journey with insights from our conversation with Shivali Patel. You’ll discover how KDP can become a powerful tool for brand expansion, offering sustained royalties with much less hassle than traditional publishing. Shivali shares her incredible path from a teenage entrepreneur to a successful KDP author and Amazon FBA seller, emphasizing the importance of creative control and the freedom from traditional publishers that KDP provides.
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