{"id":310459,"date":"2025-08-01T23:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310459\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:17:17","slug":"amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/310459\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/09\/amazons-generative-ai-powered-alexa-is-as-big-a-privacy-red-flag-as-old-alexa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Since 2023<\/a>, Amazon has been framing Alexa+ as a monumental evolution of Amazon\u2019s voice assistant that will make it more conversational, capable, and, for Amazon, lucrative. Amazon said in a press release on Thursday that it has given early access of the generative AI voice assistant to \u201cmillions\u201d of people. The product isn\u2019t publicly available yet, and some advertised features are still unavailable, but Amazon\u2019s CEO is already considering loading the chatbot up with ads.<\/p>\n<p>During an investors call yesterday, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/31\/amazon-ceo-wants-to-put-ads-in-your-alexa-conversations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>, 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. An analyst on the call asked Amazon executives about Alexa+&#8217;s potential for \u201cincreasing engagement\u201d long term.<\/p>\n<p>Per a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investing.com\/news\/transcripts\/earnings-call-transcript-amazon-q2-2025-earnings-beat-expectations-93CH-4164802\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transcript<\/a> of the call, Jassy responded by saying, in part, &#8220;I think over time, there will be opportunities, you know, as people are engaging in more multi-turn conversations to have advertising play a role to help people find discovery and also as a lever to drive revenue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like other voice assistants, Alexa has yet to monetize users. 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 with Alexa reportedly costing Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2024\/07\/alexa-had-no-profit-timeline-cost-amazon-25-billion-in-4-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$25 billion across four years<\/a>, Amazon is eyeing additional routes to profitability.<\/p>\n<p>Echo Show devices already <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/07\/get-ready-for-alexa-skills-pop-up-ads-on-your-amazon-echo-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">show ads<\/a>, and Echo speaker users may hear ads when listening to music. Advertisers have <a href=\"https:\/\/digiday.com\/marketing\/amazon-launches-alexa-and-marketers-want-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shown interest<\/a> in advertising with Alexa+, but the inclusion of ads in a new offering like Alexa+ could drive people away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2023, Amazon has been framing Alexa+ as a monumental evolution of Amazon\u2019s voice assistant that will make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-310459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114956065018447253","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}