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We forecast Amazon’s US sales of books, music, and video will reach $59.46 billion in 2025, 89.2% of total books, music, and video ecommerce sales. But that share could decline if competitors can tap into the trends shaping reading culture, like the desire for in-person communities or #BookTok’s popularity. This was originally featured in the Retail Daily newsletter.

It allows access to numerous applications including immersive virtual worlds, gaming, social media, music streaming, and finance. The biggest difference between Web3 and its predecessors lies in decentralization: It is jointly operated by multiple players instead of being controlled by central authorities, such as Google or Microsoft in the current version of the internet.

YouTube’s record label clash echoes TikTok-UMG feud: Major artists are unavailable on YouTube and its music platform as a deal deadline approaches.

It's not like, oh, I hate music now, like I'm fine just not listening to it. They could probably charge 30, $40 and I'd be like, sure. Especially because the alternatives, it's interesting because the content is pretty much the same or identical across different music streaming platforms unlike video streaming platforms. However, there aren't a lot of them.

John Porter at The Verge noting Spotify's increase isn't unexpected considering every other major music streaming service has announced a price increase in recent months. Going through them, Apple was first, last October. Amazon in January. TIDAL and YouTube Music Premium announced hikes in July and they all increased their services by a buck for its standard individual monthly subscription.

Listening to music, podcasts, and other audio is the top function of smart speakers. This year’s forecasted 86 million US monthly users are expected to approach the 100 million mark by 2027. Spoken questions or making requests is a close second. Across the range of activities in our forecast, growth rates will mirror that of the overall smart speaker user base.

Social media, print press, radio, music streaming down in five or six regions. And even time spent on mobile is down in three of the seven regions. Now, these aren't fundamental drops. There's no need for panic or alarm bells, but it's interesting that the overall time people are spending on media has declined for the first time.

The campaign used disruptive audio ads featuring hold music mid-podcast, followed by programmatic ads and DOOH placements in Manhattan. This resulted in a noticeable increase in web traffic, leads, and sales conversions. Winning strategies for B2B marketers. Prioritize quality over quantity. Focus on high-value formats like video, interactive media, thought leadership, and community-driven content.

By contrast, YouTube Premium (which includes YouTube Music Premium) will have 40.5 million, Apple Music will have 39.9 million, and Pandora will have 6.3 million. We do not yet have projections for how many people pay for Amazon Music Unlimited (although we do have listener figures for Amazon Music overall). Holding steady on share.

This has already been the case for books, music, and video, but it won’t be the only ecommerce-majority category for long. Computer and consumer electronics will cross 50% in 2024 and continue to shift in the coming years, as will toys and hobby in 2025 and furniture and home furnishings in 2027. Toys and hobby will see the most significant shift.

Health and personal care will drive growth but won’t be enough to improve Amazon’s share of the overall US ecommerce market.