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Amazon’s Prime Day celebratory recap was missing one key metric that the tech giant usually reveals
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亚马逊每年都会举办Prime Day促销活动,并发布新闻稿宣传其业绩。然而,今年亚马逊却未公布Prime Day的商品销售数量,这引起了关注。此前,亚马逊在2020年和2016年也未披露该数据。虽然整体在线零售额有所增长,但亚马逊此次做法仍令人费解。文章分析了可能的原因,包括卖家面临的挑战以及消费者日益悲观的情绪,并暗示销售数据缺失可能引发对其Prime Day实际成功程度的质疑。

🤔 亚马逊在2025年的Prime Day活动中,并未像往年一样公布售出商品的具体数量,这与该公司在过去几年中的做法有所不同。

📅 亚马逊此前未公布销售数据的两次分别是2020年和2016年。2020年是由于疫情导致Prime Day活动时间调整,而2016年则是Prime Day的第二次举办。

🧐 尽管整体在线零售额有所增长,Adobe的分析显示,今年Prime Day期间的销售额增长超过30%,但亚马逊将Prime Day活动延长至四天,这使得与往年两天的Prime Day进行比较的基准发生了变化。

🤔 文章推测亚马逊未公布销售数据的原因可能与卖家面临的挑战以及消费者日益悲观的情绪有关,这些因素可能影响了公司的决策。

Every year, Amazon holds a “record” Prime Day, and every year the company boasts about the performance of the annual sales event in a press release. The self-congratulatory announcement isn’t exactly absurd—given its size, any year-over-year growth is noteworthy.

Last year, while Amazon didn’t disclose the total number of items sold, it did note that independent sellers “sold more than 200 million items during the Prime Day event.” In 2023, Prime members “purchased more than 375 million items worldwide.” In 2022, that number was more than 300 million, and in 2021, it was north of 250 million. 

But this year, what stood out to this longtime Amazon watcher is that the company didn’t disclose anything about the number of items sold. The last time it made that choice was 2020, when nothing normal was happening anywhere in the world, and Prime Day was moved from summer to October. Before that, you have to go back to the second-ever Prime Day in 2016 to find a wrap-up that didn’t provide any update on the number of “units”  sold.

It’s unclear exactly why Amazon decided to withhold that number for 2025, but this Prime Day was odd for a few reasons. Sellers, and brands big and small, had to come up with different strategies to contend with tariff chaos. And they’re trying to woo increasingly pessimistic consumers. Those factors could be weighing on the company’s decision to withhold exact numbers. 

When asked about this year’s missing metric, Amazon spokesperson Jessica Martin pointed Fortune to an Amazon blog post that shares facts about historical Prime Day events, but otherwise declined to comment on the absence of specific product sales tallies for 2025.

To be sure, it’s possible that this Prime Day was a success. An outside analysis from Adobe estimated that sales across online retailers overall increased by more than 30% during this year’s four day Prime Day period, compared to last year. And Amazon said in this year’s recap that the four days of Prime Day 2025 outsold any other four-day period that included previous Prime Days. But historically, the event hasn’t run longer than two days. That means that previous years have included two prime days and two regular days, while this year included four prime days. It’s unclear why the company would change the basis of comparison. 

We’ll see if Amazon provides any more details in future earnings reports later this year. Until then, the missing metric raises questions about just how successful Prime Day really was. 

Are you a current or former Amazon employee with thoughts on this topic or a tip to share? Contact Jason Del Rey at jason.delrey@fortune.com, jasondelrey@protonmail.com, or through messaging apps Signal and WhatsApp at 917-655-4267. You can also contact him on LinkedIn or at @delrey on X, @jdelrey on Threads, and on Bluesky.

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