Alexa In Canada: Amazon Alexa And Echo Skills, Tips, And Tricks For Canadians

In this episode, Teri welcomes Sarah Andrew Wilson, the Chief Content Officer at Matchbox.io, a company that is producing some of the most engaging Alexa skills. Welcome, Sarah!Sarah was an educator and musician for 23 years before she joined Matchbox 2 years ago to oversee all of the content for their voice applications. Matchbox develops some of the most popular and highest rated voice games on Amazon Alexa, including Question of the Day and Kids Quiz.The Origin of MatchboxIt was founded in January 2017 by the CEO, Joel Wilson. As a curious developer, he bought an Alexa device and was wondering what he could create for it. He created a few skills including Question of the Day, but the content for the skill eventually became too much work for him, so he hired Sarah to help with the content.By 2018 they were expanding rapidly in terms of users.Their SkillsThey have Question of the Day which gives users one question a day and when they get it correct they get a bonus question. They also have a subscriptio