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Amazon plans to resume advertising on Twitter and spend about $100 million a year, report says

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Amazon plans to resume advertising on Twitter and spend about $100 million a year, report says
  • Amazon will resume advertising on Twitter and spend around $100 million a year, Platformer reported.
  • Platformer said the move would require "some security tweaks" to its ads platform.

Amazon plans to start advertising on Twitter again to the tune of about $100 million a year, Platformer journalist Zoë Schiffer $4.

According to her tweet, the online retail giant was waiting for "some security tweaks" to Twitter's ads platform before returning.

The news comes a day after Elon Musk said Apple had "fully resumed" advertising on the platform. Musk later $4 to "thank advertisers for returning to Twitter."

Half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers $4 in the days after Musk took over Twitter, according to research center Media Matters.

They collectively spent $750 million on Twitter ads this year alone and accounted for almost $2 billion of the company's ad revenue since 2020.

Apple paused its ads on Twitter after a $4 in Colorado Springs last month, which left five people dead and dozens more injured, three sources $4.

General Motors was one of the first advertisers to announce it was $4 The Tesla rival said in October it needed to review the platform under Musk's leadership. The decision came as a result of GM's concerns that its Twitter data could be passed on to Tesla, sources $4.

Twitter offered incentives to big-spending advertisers to counteract the steep loss of revenue, Schiffer $4 last week. Any advertisers spending more than $500,000 will have that matched by Twitter, the source told Schiffer.

While returning advertisers may be good news for Twitter, internal sources told The Times that ad revenue in the week of November 20 was 80% below expectations.

Some brands only agreed to advertise for events like the Super Bowl and had clauses stating they could change their minds for any reason, according to the Times report.

Amazon, Twitter, and Apple did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comments.



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