It’s not a secret that Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos has aspirations for the news as business: Bezos bought The Washington Post (for a big to us, miniscule to him, chunk of change) back in 2013,

In addition to selling ads on its sprawling marketplace, it will now let other retailers use the technology powering its $50 billion business on their own websites, as reported earlier by Adweek. The company’s new Retail Ad Service beta will let other online stores “Deliver contextually relevant ads by leveraging Amazon’s two decades of ad tech expertise,

Amazon Retail Ad Service, which the retail and ad tech giant announced on Thursday, basically gives third-party e-commerce sites a way to mimic Amazon’s ad experience by showing product ads from brands that sell through their stores and apps.