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45 statements about Amazon in 31 sources, by upload date.

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2020

2020-01-07 · 15 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali took the flywheel from, he thinks, a Jim Collins interview on The Tim Ferriss Show: it takes ages to get going, then builds on itself and becomes unstoppable, as Amazon's low prices draw buyers and sellers. (hedged) — 00:07:55
2020-01-07 · 15 Lessons that Improved My Life — Ali has heard that in one year, just before reaching a billion in revenue, Amazon's mantra was GOHIO, "getting our house in order", a year spent on its systems. (hedged) — 00:19:10
2020-02-05 · How Much Money I Spend in a Week as a 25 Year Old Doctor — Ali: After a colleague comments on his unhealthy eating while he has lunch in the doctors' office, Ali buys a cookbook on Amazon for £11.68, as he is trying to eat a little healthier. — 00:01:56
2020-03-06 · Study With Me - Weekend on-call — Ali: Over breakfast Ali reads on Nerd Fitness about anterior pelvic tilt, his posture problem, and buys body fat calipers on Amazon to help get rid of his pot belly. — 00:00:29
2020-03-22 · Interviewing a Writer // Day in the Life VLOG — Ali watches YouTube videos to find the best settings for his new GoPro and buys accessories and mounts for it on Amazon Prime. — 00:02:27
2020-03-30 · Improve your Reading + My New Favourite Pen — Ali: A few weeks ago Ali saw Marius, a fifth-year medical student from Cambridge on placement with him, writing with a Uni-ball Air; Marius said the pen changed his life, and Ali at once bought a pack of 12 on Amazon Prime. — 00:07:53
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: Amazon Associates, which Ali calls the world's biggest affiliate programme, pays between about 1 and 10% commission on purchases made through an affiliate link. — 00:05:21
2020-05-01 · How Much Money I Earn in a Week as a Doctor & YouTuber — Ali: A photography YouTuber like Peter McKinnon probably makes a lot from Amazon affiliate links because his viewers buy expensive cameras and lenses; Ali's viewers buy books, pens or board games, so he makes little. (hedged) — 00:05:50
2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali: Among his Amazon deliveries Ali unpacks a meat thermometer, mixing bowls, a dicer-chopper and small prep bowls, part of his plan to start cooking properly. — 00:03:05
2020-05-17 · My Productive Birthday in Lockdown - Day in the Life Vlog — Ali: Among the Amazon deliveries is Ricardo Semler's book Maverick, recommended by Ali's friend Noah Kagan, which goes on his to-read list. — 00:03:40
2020-05-19 · How To Make Money Online - The 3 Levels — Ali: The review website Wirecutter uses Amazon affiliate links and makes perhaps 1 to 3% commission on each sale, Ali says. (hedged) — 00:08:16
2020-06-21 · A HUGE Unboxing Day — Ali: From Amazon, not gifted, Ali unboxes a Razer Kraken Tournament Edition headset for chatting with friends. — 00:04:19
2020-09-09 · How to make money on YouTube in 2021 (and how much I earn) — Ali: Shelby Church's video on making money with Amazon's Fulfilled by Amazon program, a prime target for advertisers selling money-making courses, had a playback-based CPM of $35.60, more than 10 times what she would make on another topic. — 00:06:20
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: Expecting Amazon to grow tenfold again because it did in the last ten years is trying to predict the future; past performance is no real indication of future performance. — 00:09:02
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: In the S&P 500, Apple makes up 6.5%, Microsoft 5.5%, Amazon 4.7% and Facebook 2.2%. — 00:10:54
2020-10-11 (said on 2020-10-08, implied) · How to Invest for Beginners — Ali: Basically all of Ali's investments are in the S&P 500, so about 6.5% of them are in Apple, 5.5% in Microsoft and 4.7% in Amazon. — 00:12:22
2020-11-13 · Kindle Oasis Review in 60s #SHORTS — Ali: The Kindle Oasis, Amazon's most expensive Kindle, costs $250; the Kindle Paperwhite costs half as much. — 00:00:00
2020-12-22 · PRODUCTIVE Day in the Life of an Aspiring Gymshark Athlete — Ali: A parcel from Amazon brings a cookbook that Ali's editor Christian recommended if he wants to take cooking seriously. — 00:02:55
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali's five most successful affiliate partnerships are Paperlike, IQUnix, Epidemic Sound, Amazon, which has the world's largest affiliate programme, and Tiago Forte's course Building a Second Brain. — 00:26:11
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — Ali has made one video about his keyboard, none in 2020 about the screen protector, none about Epidemic Sound, two about Building a Second Brain and none plugging an Amazon product; the links in his descriptions add up. — 00:27:15
2020-12-28 (said on 2020-12-15, implied) · How Much Money I Earn as a Doctor + YouTuber — recommendation: Ali: To start with affiliate programmes, Ali says the easiest is Amazon Associates: almost anyone can join, earning about 2 or 3% commission on each sale through their link. — 00:27:44

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2019

2019-02-07 · THE BEST EARPHONES - Apple AirPods Review — Ali's Beats wireless earphones cost about 150 pounds but come free with Apple's education offers, as his did with his MacBook; similar ones cost about 20 pounds on Amazon. — 00:06:33
2019-03-26 · Recommended Tech for Students 🎧📱 — Ali: A Kindle also reduces the friction to getting a new book, Ali says: whenever he hears a recommendation on a podcast or from a friend, buying it on Amazon takes him three seconds. — 00:03:24
2019-03-26 · Recommended Tech for Students 🎧📱 — recommendation: Ali recommends a set of remote-control smart plugs, which he bought about three years ago for about £20 for four on Amazon: plugging a lamp into one makes it a smart lamp. — 00:06:01
2019-04-02 · What's in my Camera Bag - My YouTube + photography travel gear — recommendation: Ali bought his camera bag, made by Be Aspire (as heard), for about £40 on Amazon in 2017 as the best price for its reviews; the moral, he says, is that you can get by with almost anything cheap. — 00:00:20
2019-05-07 · Amazon Kindle vs Kindle Paperwhite — Ali: Whenever he hears a book recommended on a podcast or by a friend, Ali buys it on Kindle from his phone without looking at the price, since the value a book can give is astronomical. — 00:02:26
2019-05-07 · Amazon Kindle vs Kindle Paperwhite — recommendation: Ali: Kindle prices are often cut in Amazon's Black Friday and Prime Day sales, Ali says, so anyone for whom money is an object can pick up a Kindle Paperwhite cheaply then. — 00:02:55
2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali read Bad Blood on his Kindle; the paper copy he shows was bought on Amazon Prime only to show in the video. — 00:01:50
2019-05-31 · Monthly Favourites #9 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Eugene Wei worked at Amazon and other tech companies and is now a tech blogger and journalist; a couple of weeks ago he wrote the long article "Status as a Service", which Ali calls very interesting. — 00:02:47
2019-06-29 · How I Make My YouTube Videos — Ali lights his videos with an Aputure 120D Mark II in an Aputure Light Dome II softbox; his old lighting setup cost about £30–40 on Amazon and was not dimmable. — 00:04:57
2019-08-06 · Smart Passive Income + The Third Door - Monthly Favourites #11 — recommendation: Ali highly recommends a shiatsu back massager he found on Amazon to anyone who gets back pain or enjoys massages; he has recommended it to all his friends. — 00:05:08
2019-08-06 · Smart Passive Income + The Third Door - Monthly Favourites #11 — Ali: A friend Ali recommended the shiatsu back massager to bought it on Amazon Prime at once and says it has changed his life too. — 00:06:05
2019-08-06 · Smart Passive Income + The Third Door - Monthly Favourites #11 — recommendation: Ali recommends Tynan, a blogger and author he recently discovered who goes by one name, self-publishes books on Amazon and blogs at tynan.com. — 00:06:40
2019-09-13 · My Productivity Desk Setup — Ali's generic Logitech speakers, bought on Amazon about five years earlier for about 20 or 30 pounds, have served him fine; he does not really need to upgrade, and plays music on his HomePods. — 00:03:05
2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — recommendation: Ali's seventh tip is to have a Goodreads account, the Amazon-owned social network for books with a library of every book published. — 00:07:18
2019-10-30 · How I Read 100 Books a Year - 8 Tips for Reading More — Ali: Readwise syncs to your Amazon account and emails you five random highlights from your Kindle books every day. — 00:08:31

2018

2018-05-02 · Exam Study Tips for University & A-Level students - Revision Q&A with Cambridge students — Ali makes about 3% commission on his Amazon affiliate links: about £11 in the last year and about 43p that day. — 00:21:30
2018-05-14 · Monthly Favourites #4 - Ali Abdaal — Ali says the Kindle changed his relationship with life: he can get almost any book within seconds of hearing about it, so a book a friend recommends is bought on Amazon at once and read within the week. — 00:09:28
2018-06-12 · Live Stream - Tuesday Evening Hangout — Ali: During the livestream Ali buys two books viewers recommended: Moonwalking with Einstein, £4.99 on Kindle, and an Elon Musk biography, £5.49. — 00:49:50
2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — announcement: Ali has decided that one of his projects for the next few months is to buy a crash mat from Amazon and learn to do a backflip, like a slow-motion backflip off a cliff in Vietnam. — 00:08:52
2018-08-30 · Monthly Favourites #6 - Ali Abdaal — Ali: Wireless earphones range from cheap £20 pairs on Amazon to £150 AirPods; Ali thinks the Powerbeats3 cost about £120 but come free with the education discount. (hedged) — 00:11:53
2018-09-11 · My new podcast - Microphone setup + reflections — Ali bought the Zoom H5 audio recorder for the podcast in the Amazon Prime Day sale a few weeks earlier; it takes multiple XLR inputs. — 00:01:27
2018-09-26 · My Productivity Desk Setup — Ali: For three years Ali's speakers have been basic £25 Logitech ones from Amazon; he would kind of like a decent £300 set such as the Adam speakers many tech YouTubers use. — 00:03:05
2018-11-19 · iPad Pro 2018 Review - Should you buy it? — recommendation: Ali suggests a Kindle Paperwhite for about 90 pounds plus some 50 non-fiction books, which would add far more value than the iPad Pro's slightly nicer experience; he calls the Kindle probably his second most valuable purchase. (hedged) — 00:06:50
2018-11-23 · Study with Me - Resuscitation Training · Life as a Junior Doctor — Ali buys a set of Philips Hue smart light bulbs in the Amazon Black Friday sales and spends the evening setting them up and trying the light settings. — 00:05:01

Also named in: A year on YouTube - Channel / life update