{"id":98156,"date":"2021-01-14T21:11:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98156"},"modified":"2021-02-04T16:47:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T16:47:12","slug":"amazon","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is one of the world&#8217;s largest companies operating in the worlds of e-commerce, streaming entertainment, cloud computing provision, and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>For the music industry, Amazon is a high priority retail partner for both physical and digital record sales, but also in streaming via its Amazon Music platform.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon was founded in July 1994 by Jeff Bezos in Bellevue, Washington, USA.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, Amazon&#8217;s HQ stands in Seattle, Washington, USA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Amazon acquired live-streaming platform Twitch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/8\/25\/6066295\/amazon-reportedly-buying-twitch-for-over-1-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">for $970 million.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, Jeff Bezos and Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/artists-challenge-jeff-bezos-on-twitch-royalty-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">came under fire<\/a> from recorded music and music publishing representatives over the lack of music licensing on Twitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon owns music platform Amazon Music, as well as selling a vast range of physical and digital music<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41615,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98156","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}