{"id":133310,"date":"2025-08-01T17:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:04:39","slug":"amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/09\/amazons-generative-ai-powered-alexa-is-as-big-a-privacy-red-flag-as-old-alexa\/\">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\/\">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\">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><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/08\/amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/08\/amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2023, 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/amazon-is-considering-shoving-ads-into-alexa-conversations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Since 2023, 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. 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