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Amazon’s $68 Billion Ad Machine Faces Washington’s Biggest Test!

Amazon has quietly transformed advertising into one of its most important businesses, generating roughly $68 billion in ad revenue in 2025 and establishing itself as the world’s third-largest digital advertising platform behind Google and Meta. That growth story is now colliding with regulatory scrutiny. The Federal Trade Commission, joined by more than 20 state attorneys general, has sued Amazon, alleging that the company secretly altered parts of its advertising auction system in ways that caused advertisers more than $20 billion in harm. Amazon rejects that characterization, arguing that its auction methodology reflects the real-time value of ad inventory, that advertisers never pay more than their submitted bids, and that consumers were not harmed. The dispute matters because Amazon advertising is no longer a side business.