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Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations. Amazon has failed to make Alexa profitable thus far.
Amazon has failed to make Alexa profitable thus far.
During an investors call yesterday, as reported by TechCrunch, Andy Jassy noted that Alexa+ started rolling out as early access to some customers in the US and that a broader rollout, including internationally, should happen later this year. Amazon is hoping to finally make money off the service through Alexa+, which is eventually slated to play a bigger role in e-commerce, including by booking restaurant reservations, keeping track of and ordering groceries, and recommending streaming content based on stated interests. But Alexa+ is still in the early stages, meaning that Amazon's bigger priorities are catching up with the competition, rolling out more of Alexa+'s promised features, and making the chatbot publicly available.
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