Important dates
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G201637520?language=en_US
Amazon Sweden
https://www.thelocal.se/20201028/translation-fails-on-amazons-new-swedish-site
Amazon.se (Sweden) had an interesting launch in more ways than one on 28 October
The first faux pas, Amazon displayed the wrong flag, having an Argentinian flag on the Swedish site. If that wasn’t exciting enough, there were a copious number of mistranslated listings, most of them lewd in nature. Apparently they hired Justin to do the translations.
Amazon expands
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/amazon-1-million-employees/
https://www.geekwire.com/2020/amazon-crushes-q3-expectations-sets-record-96-1b-revenue-6-3b-profits/
Amazon crushes Q3 expectations, sets record with $96.1B in revenue and $6.3B in profits
Growing despite Covid and anticipating even more growth through the holidays, Amazon now employs 1 million people after hiring 250,000 employees in the third quarter of this year. But I still can’t get my cases answered and friends have complained of random problems and store or listing shut downs
Shopify and TickTock
https://news.shopify.com/dancing-to-a-new-beat-shopify-brings-commerce-to-tiktok
Big news from Tiktok and Shopify as they team up and test new e commerce features over the coming months. They are including shoppable video ads just like YouTube ads which we covered in our last news episode. They are also introducing shoppable hashtags.
Amazon taking sales from you?
In addition to sponsored ads on your page, Amazon is now displaying Amazon’s Choice products just under your key features. We’ve been unable to find any data on this besides complaints in the forums, but a quick search turned up several listings where Amazon is doing this.
For people looking to sell on Amazon, they have been piloting and implementing doing video verification of new sellers since May
