Amazon began as an online bookstore and proved that the Internet could be more than an information network. It proved that people were willing to buy online and that e-commerce could scale. Amazon.com’s 1999 Webby win came with a tuxedo-clad team declaring ‘The best is yet to come. Prime took that promise and rewrote consumer expectations, making two-day shipping feel normal and pulling e-commerce into every corner of daily life. Kindle turned reading into a digital habit, while Audible, first honored at The Webby Awards in 2006 and later named Podcast Company of the Year in 2023, made listening habitual by weaving audiobooks and podcasts into daily routines. Twitch, a Webby and People’s Voice Winner in 2016, transformed gaming into a global live-streaming spectacle. Alexa introduced voice-powered living, and Amazon Music helped make streaming central to discovery. For three decades, Amazon has used the Internet to reinvent how we buy, watch, play, and listen, and in the process rewired how the world consumes media and experiences at every scale.

NOTABLE WINS

Amazon.com

Amazon Alexa Moments (2017)

 Audible (Podcast Company of the Year, 2022)

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