It’s Really “Happy Holidays” For Amazon

Amazon today announced that more than three million members have joined Prime during the third week of December. The Prime membership program offers unlimited free two-day shipping, free same-day delivery, superfast free two-hour delivery via Prime Now in over 20 metro areas, and unlimited access to tens of thousands of movies and TV episodes.

“This was another great holiday season to be a Prime member, and we welcomed three million new members in the third week of December alone,” said Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com.

The online retail giant also said that The Man in the High Castle is the most watched TV season on Prime Video this holiday. Prime viewers doubled their total viewing hours of Prime Video titles, compared to last year.

Coming to Amazon devices, the company said that this holiday was the “best ever” with doubling of last year’s record-setting shopping season with millions of devices sold. The all-new Fire tablet was the best-selling product across the millions of items available on Amazon.com since its introduction 15 weeks ago.

The company also said in the press release that nearly 70 percent of its customers shopped using a mobile device this holiday. On Cyber Monday, its customers worldwide ordered more than 33 electronics per second from a mobile device.

“Over 200 million more items shipped for free with Prime this holiday, and members doubled their viewing hours of Prime Video compared to last year with the Amazon Original Series The Man in the High Castle leading the way as the most watched TV season ever on Prime Video. On behalf of Amazon employees around the world, we wish everyone happy holidays and the very best for the coming year”, Bezos added.