Amazon Prime Day 2024 – live: Top shopping tips and updates

Deal hunters, Amazon Prime Day is here and it’s the perfect chance to snap up a discounted mattress.

Ninja foodi dual zone digital air fryer AF300UK: Was £219, now £169.99, Amazon.co.uk

A very similar Ninja foodi model earned a spot in our round-up of the best air fryers for 2024, so you’re in safe hands with this dual zone appliance. Complete with different functions, times and temperature settings in each drawer to create complete meals in just one appliance, it can cater for the whole household. There are also six cooking settings, from roasting to frying, and the capacity to cook between four to six portions. Now, you can save more than 20 per cent in the lead-up to Prime Day.

Myself and the IndyBest team have been covering the Amazon Prime Day since it started in 2015. We’ve been plucking out discounts and tracking prices for years, so, we know when something’s a good deal and when it’s a dud.

True to form, we’ll be highlighting the very best deals on all the most sought-after products in this non-stop liveblog, every waking (and sleeping) hour of the 48-hour sale.

To get prepared, if there are any items you’re desperate to get your hands on, we recommend adding them to your wish list ahead of time, so you can check out more quickly when the sale rolls around. It’s also worth downloading the Amazon app – the retailer will continue to drop “lightning deals” throughout the sale, and these are only around for a few hours at a time. You can also set up alerts, so you’re pinged when a discount goes live.

To celebrate the arrival of Amazon Prime Day, the ecommerce giant has re-launched a new and improved Amazon Echo Spot, complete with better sound and no invasive camera like its predecessor.

According to Alex, the Echo Spot essentially pulls together the best bits of an Echo Show 5 and an Echo Dot with Clock, sitting in between the two devices in terms of form and functionality.

Amazon Echo Spot smart alarm clock: Was £79.99, now £49.99, Amazon.co.uk

The all-new Amazon Echo Spot is an Alexa-enabled smart alarm clock that can be customised with your own colour preference. The 2.83in screen can be set to violet, magenta, orange, teal, blue and lime colourways. The gradual light-up display shows the time, weather and music playing, but also flashes up neat animations in response to certain phrases. You can also choose your own clock face and tap the device to snooze your alarm, and adjust playback as songs are playing

Amazon Prime Day is an annual sale event that takes place over two days, seeing the retailer discount the price of thousands of products from big-name brands, including Apple, Samsung, KitchenAid, Shark, Simba, Ninja and more.

Prime members receive exclusive access to thousands of deals on top brands (name-dropping a few specific ones) as well as big savings on Amazon’s own devices and services – we’re talking Ring doorbells, Fire TV sticks and offers on Audible books and memberships.

In 2022, Amazon began hosting more than one Prime Day-style sale a year, starting with the Prime Early Access Sale in October. It now hosts three sales a year – the Amazon Spring Sale in March (which is open to non-Prime subscribers), Amazon Prime Day in July and the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Sale in October. But the summer sale is still the biggest and best.

Revlon is one of favourite hair tool brands, with the older one-step model earning a spot in our round-up of the best hot brushes. TikTok loves it too, with the hair tool going viral after being lauded as a budget alterantive to Dyson’s cult hairwrap (it’s around £400 cheaper).

Revlon one-step volumiser plus: Was £69.99, now £40.99, Amazon.co.uk

Designed to volumise, style and add shine to wet or dry hair simultaneously, it boasts the power of a dryer and the volume of a styler. “In our experience, it performs best when you work on hair in sections,” our tester said. “Twisting your wrist as you glide through strands gives your locks a speedy volume boost. It doesn’t get tangled or leave hair frizzy, although it is pretty weighty, so bare that in mind.” You can save 41 per cent right now.

I’ve been covering both Black Friday and Prime Day sales for years now, and based on experience, Prime Day deals are just as good as Black Friday deals.

In fact, you’ll find even better discounts on Amazon devices during Prime Day, and all other tech, home and beauty buys will be discounted to similar Black Friday prices, so it’s definitely worth browsing.

Remember, Amazon uses Prime Day as a chance to spoil its Prime members, and it really goes above and beyond.

Google Pixel 8 + Pixel Watch: Was £1,038, now £748, Amazon.co.uk

This deal at Amazon gets you the Pixel 8 and the Pixel Watch with a £290 discount versus buying both separately. Our tech writer has seen this bundle on sale for less than £600 in the past, but right now this is still the cheapest way to pick up Google’s best smartphone and the original Pixel Watch ahead of Prime Day.

Ahead of tomorrow’s big day, tech writer Alex Lee has written an excellent guide to his top tips for securing the best deals. He’s been working at IndyBest since 2021, so is well-versed in covering deal events and knows a cracking deal from a dud, so he really is someone you can trust. With seven key suggestions for making your money go further on Amazon Prime Day, it’s well worth a read:

Olaplex’s no3 hair perfector is one of those products that is fully deserving of the hype. Giving oomph to lacklustre hair, it’s the perfect mid-week pick-me-up.

Olaplex no.3 hair perfector: Was £28, now £20.58, Amazon.co.uk

In our review of Olaplex’s famous no3 hair perfector, our tester said that the formula is a “modern-day cult classic hair care product” that is “hard to live up to, let alone beat”. Strands started to “feel softer and look healthier the more we used it”. Well worth a spot in our own bathroom cabinet, you can save 27 per cent right now.