EP268 - Amazon Prime Day Recap with ChannelAdvisor CEO David Spitz David Spitz (@davidspitz) is the CEO of ChannelAdvisor. He joins us this week to share ChannelAdvisor data from Amazon Prime Day 2021. Amazon Prime day was launched in 2015 to celebrate Amazon’s 20th anniversary, and has become a world-wide summer shopping event. The length of the event has been slowly expanding since 2015, so it is now two days long. Traditionally Prime Day has been a summer event taking place in July, for example July 15-16, 2019. In 2020 due to the pandemic, Prime Day was held in October 13-14, 2020. This year Prime Day is earlier than usual on June 22-23, 2021. Topics Covered: ChannelAdvisor view of prime day: Prime Day 2021 Wrap-up | ChannelAdvisor Morgan Stanley (Brian Nowak) Prime Day Recap Robert Baird (Colin Sebastian) Prime Day Recap Salesforce Prime Day Recap Amazon’s Prime Day 2021 sales total $11.19 billion | Digital Commerce 360 Amazon Prime Day 2021 Insights & Real-Time Tracker | Numerator Episode 268 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday June 24, 2021. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scot show this is episode 268 being recorded on Thursday June 24th 2021, I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:41] Thanks Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners if you enjoy listening to this show as much as we do creating it for you this would be a great time to pause go into your favorite. Podcast listening device technology and leave us that five-star review right Jason. Jason: [0:59] That sounds like a great idea Scott I’m glad you thought of it. Scot: [1:03] Jason’s mom they throttled her she can leave one review every week or so so we need we need more help out there from the other other folks that listen. Coupe so this week we are talking about one of my favorite topics Prime day so Amazon introduced Prime Day in 2015 as kind of a summer holiday the first Prime date was July and 15 2015 and if that’s a lot of 15s it may sound familiar to 1111 which was the holiday that Alibaba created called signals day Jason I don’t know about you but it feels like we just had a prime day so it’s kind of a groundhog Prime day for me this year but then as I delegated to one of our many interns they did the math and it’s actually been eight months so not exactly your but also not two months to feel like we just had a prime day to you. Jason: [1:55] It kind of did I was going to say that Prime days my like favorite season of the year but then I realized well wait it’s a different season every year. So yeah yeah it no I agree I have barely recovered and then as you know I work with a lot of retailers so I’ve been doing a ton of holiday promotion so I get internally getting ready so to me it kind of feels like December just ended, and now we’re having prime day I’m like all backwards upside-down and topsy-turvy. Scot: [2:23] Did you buy anything on Prime day. Jason: [2:25] Boiler over no I totally assumed I would find some stuff to buy and I found nothing there was nothing that I got excited about this year what about you. Scot: [2:36] I always use prime day to load up on my my little cables that I have three kids that love to rob my specifically my iPhone cables so I did find a set of anchor cables that I liked, no but they were half off so I bought a bunch of those so I’m good for what probably is going to be another 12 months of cables hopefully we’ll see. Jason: [2:57] My wife has placed a restraining order prohibiting me from buying more more charging cables so. Scot: [3:02] Yes no more dongles are cables or power juicers or anything. Jason: [3:06] One of my favorite charging