Amazon Will Pay Developers With the Most Engaging Alexa Skills (venturebeat.com)

Amazon today announced a new program to bring revenue to developers of Alexa skills based on how much engagement their voice app is able to generate among users of Alexa-enabled devices. From a report: Amazon appears to be the first of the major tech companies with AI assistants and third-party integrations -- like Google, Samsung, Apple, and Microsoft -- with a program to compensate developers based on engagement created by their voice app. Metrics used to measure engagement of an Alexa skill include minutes of usage, new customers, customer ratings, and return visitors, an Amazon spokesperson told VentureBeat. Developers of Alexa skills in the U.S., U.K., and Germany are eligible to join. Developers with a skill active in all three countries will receive separate payments based on engagement in each country.

Comments

Turn Alexa into a phone sex voice bot...

[cayenne8]

I would predict that if you could get Alexa to give a good phone sex experience, they'd have the winner developer there.

Depending on how good the app was, the length of time of engagement might be short, but I"m guessing that would be made up by increased repeat business.