Amazon Prime Members Bought 2 Billion Products for One-Day Delivery This Year

By Douglas A. McIntyre Updated Jan 11, 2:15PM EST · Published Dec 3, 6:30AM EST

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Amazon Prime is among the largest membership programs in the world, with over 100 million participants. The plan brings Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) recurring revenue, and Prime members buy more products from the site than non-Prime members. Amazon made a new announcement that shows the huge volume Prime contributes to the massive e-commerce company. Prime members bought over 2 billion products that were delivered in a day or less this year. The news was part of Amazon’s Best of Prime 2018 announcement.

Amazon added Australia as its 17th nation. It joins countries where Prime members can sign up for an annual subscription by either the month or the year. In the United States, the prices for those are $12.99 per month or $119 per year. Amazon charges $8.99 a month for people who only want the company’s video streaming service.

The Prime 2 billion products in a day or less count is based on several Amazon Prime delivery services. The most broadly available are Prime Free One-Day Shipping and Prime Free Same-Day Delivery, which are available in over 8,000 cities. Amazon also offers two-hour delivery via Prime Now in more than 30 major cities.

The Prime Now service also has been extended to include Whole Foods, which Amazon bought for $13.4 billion last year. Whole Foods items can be delivered in less than a day. This service is available in 60 cities. Amazon said the service was utilized the most in Austin, San Francisco and Boston. Cem Sibay, Vice President, Amazon Prime, commented:

We love delivering smiles over the holidays, whether through fast, free shipping or deals on favorites like organic apples from Whole Foods Market, or award-winning entertainment like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Prime members worldwide ordered more than two billion products for one-day delivery or faster in the last year, which is pretty amazing.

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Amazon also posted several other announcements about Prime’s 2018 highlights:

The most awarded show on Prime Video is “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” The most binged shows were “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and “Homecoming.” The most beloved comic-to-movie adaptation on Prime Reading was “Black Panther,” and the most streamed artist on Prime Music was Justin Timberlake. Each award was based on data about Prime that is not available to the public.

Prime’s benefits made up most of the Amazon’s Best of Prime 2018. The benefits of the membership service to Amazon are substantial. Last year, the Consumer Intelligence Research reported that Prime members spend about $1,300 a year, which is about double what non-Prime members pay. Amazon’s Best of Prime 2018 shows just how broad Prime activity has become, and how much it means to the company.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.