Author: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Full-screen ads have started to appear regularly on Echo Show smart displays.
Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The redesign - led by former Microsoft design chief Ralf Groene, whom Amazon Devices & Services head Panos Panay coaxed out of retirement - included two new Echo Show smart displays. According to Panay, these new models are the first step on a road to building "products that customers love."
But there's one big barrier to customers loving their Echo Shows: ads.
In recent months, full-screen display ads with the tag "sponsored" have been appearing on current Echo Shows, and use …
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Full-screen ads have started to appear regularly on Echo Show smart displays.
Last week, Amazon launched a major update of its line of Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers and displays. The redesign - led by former Microsoft design chief Ralf Groene, whom Amazon Devices & Services head Panos Panay coaxed out of retirement - included two new Echo Show smart displays. According to Panay, these new models are the first step on a road to building "products that customers love."
But there's one big barrier to customers loving their Echo Shows: ads.
In recent months, full-screen display ads with the tag "sponsored" have been appearing on current Echo Shows, and use …
Read the full story at The Verge.
Continue reading...