Live video broadcasting on Alexa with Tim McElreath
The Food Network aims to the be Peloton of cooking with live video broadcasting on Alexa. Director of Technology and Emerging Platforms at Discovery Inc., Tim McElreath, joins us to share how.
Four Alexa Champions walk down memory lane with Nick Schwab, Eric Olsen, Tim Kahle and Steve Arkonovich
We catch up with 4 Amazon Alexa Champions to discuss the then, now and future of the Alexa skills ecosystem and the voice first community.
Voice search is real and Google is concerned
Voice search is happening. And Google is under threat. Not short term threat but long term threat. There’s a new search provider in town and it’s name is Alexa.
Amazon Alexa Super Bowl ad 2020
Transcript: Amazon have released a preview of its Super Bowl advert and it was aired on The Ellen Degeneres Show. DeGeneres? I think it’s DeGeneres. Is that how you pronounce it? Anyway, Amy Stapleton, recent Alexa Champion, (congratulations Amy!) posted something on LinkedIn: The first point is that Alexa is portrayed as a servant. A […]
When can we advertise on Alexa?
“When will we see advertising on Alexa?” If you’re thinking this, you’re missing the point.
Google Assistant: 500m active users, popular Alexa skill: 300,000 daily users
At Project Voice in Chattanooga, TN, we saw some light shed on just how many people are using the Google Assistant, and some updated numbers on the kind of traffic one of the most popular Alexa skills handles. Cathy Pearl, Head of Conversation Design Outreach, Google, towards the end of her presentation shared some numbers […]
Introducing the latest Alexa Champion: Dustin Coates
Every once in a while, the Alexa team at Amazon give a select few people a badge of honour.🥇 It’s called the Alexa Champions programme and it commends individuals within the Amazon Alexa community who’ve done great work in helping push the voice first agenda forwards. Drumroll please… In the most recent batch of […]
Matchbox.io with Sarah Andrew Wilson
Sarah Andrew Wilson, Chief Content Officer at Matchbox.io, shares the secret sauce for creating the kind of Alexa skills you can build a business on.
Not so bold predictions for voice in 2020
So, here we are. The end of 2019. And it’s time for some click bait regarding 2020 voice-first industry predictions. I told you to prepare for this a few weeks back. While forecasting can be inspiring and encouraging, it could also be perceived as a holding message. It’d be easy to hear about how advertising will […]
How to create Alexa skills using agile
What’s the best way to approach the development of a hashtag voicefirst experience for Alexa, Google Assistant and voice assistants?