Are Alexa’s policies applied to everyone equally?
We recently submitted a skill to Devpost’s ISP competition. Because I suspect skill description plays an undervalued role in marketplace discoverabilRead More…
Category: Analysis
Why are there 79 How Many Days skills on Alexa? A look at 1k+ duplicate skills (November 2019)
Looking through our data, I noticed that several skills names appeared multiple times. This was not particularly surprising and duplicate entries areRead More…
Love it or hate it: 4 Amazon Alexa skills that won’t leave you indifferent
Dear reader, I like to imagine you reading this blog with your morning coffee. After putting down your newspaper, and as teh site loads, you think toRead More…
4 scary Amazon Alexa skills (October 2019)
Just in time for Halloween, here are 4 scary skills to keep you on edge as the ghouls and goblins roams the streets for treats! To be honest, only 2 Read More…
Why is there a well liked skill on page 262 of the Alexa marketplace?
Is there was a relationship between a skill’s ratings and its ranking on the Alexa marketplace’s categories? People must use the category pages toRead More…
Distribution of stars per Amazon Alexa reviews (US, January 2016 to September 2019)
Last week, we looked at the distribution of reviews over time. The idea was that reviews could be used to estimate user engagement with Alexa skills.Read More…
Number of monthly reviews on the US Amazon Alexa marketplace (Nov 2015 to Sept 2019)
A member of the Amazon Alexa slack channel* suggested that customer engagement on Alexa could be measured by looking at the date of all the reviews oRead More…
Analysis of 45931 Amazon Alexa skills (September 2019)
At yesterday’s Amazon Hardware conference, Amazon announced that the Alexa marketplace now has 100 000 skills. While an impressive number, our previoRead More…
4 best Amazon Alexa skills developers (September 2019)
These are simply the most popular skill developers, in terms
of volume and ratings, on the marketplace now. We used the following stringent
criteria Read More…