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Amazon Ads management that builds organic rank, not just clicks.

Amazon PPC management for US sellers and brands — search term harvesting, bid and placement strategy, and ACOS targets set from your actual margin. Managed against total advertising cost of sale, not vanity metrics.

  • Sponsored Products, Brands, Display and DSP under one manager
  • Targets set from your product margin, not a category benchmark
  • Flat monthly fee — never a percentage of spend or revenue
  • Free account audit before any commitment

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What makes Amazon different

On Amazon, ads and organic rank are the same system

This is the part generalist agencies miss. On Google or Meta, paid and organic are separate. On Amazon they feed each other — and that changes what a campaign is actually for.

01

Ads drive sales velocity

Sponsored placements put your product in front of shoppers who are already at the point of purchase. Those sales count toward your product's momentum.

02

Velocity drives organic rank

Amazon's algorithm rewards products that convert. Sustained sales against a keyword push your organic position up for that keyword — traffic you then stop paying for.

03

Organic rank lowers your ACOS

As organic position improves, a growing share of sales arrives free. Blended advertising cost falls even when ad spend stays flat — which is why TACOS matters more than ACOS.

The practical consequence: judging an Amazon campaign on ACOS alone is misleading. A campaign that looks expensive in isolation may be buying organic rank that pays out for months. Cutting it because ACOS looks high is the most common expensive mistake in Amazon accounts.

Campaign types

Four ad products, four different jobs

Most accounts run Sponsored Products and stop there. That leaves the defensive and top-of-funnel work undone.

TYPE 01

Sponsored Products

  • The workhorse — individual products in search results and on product pages
  • Automatic campaigns used as a discovery engine, not as a permanent strategy
  • Harvested search terms promoted into exact-match manual campaigns
  • Negative targeting applied continuously, or auto campaigns bleed budget
TYPE 02

Sponsored Brands

  • Headline banners and video at the top of search results
  • Requires Brand Registry — and rewards brands that have a Store built
  • The main defensive tool for protecting your own brand terms from competitors
  • Video placements consistently outperform static for consideration-stage shoppers
TYPE 03

Sponsored Display

  • Product and audience targeting, on and off Amazon
  • Competitor ASIN targeting — appearing on rival product pages
  • Defensive placement on your own listings to crowd out competitors
  • Retargeting shoppers who viewed but did not buy
TYPE 04

Amazon DSP

  • Programmatic display reaching audiences beyond Amazon's own properties
  • Uses Amazon's purchase data — the strongest signal in retail advertising
  • Suits established brands with budget for upper-funnel work
  • Judged on new-to-brand metrics rather than last-click ACOS

Before spending anything

Advertising cannot fix a listing that does not convert

Amazon ads send traffic to a product page you do not fully control the design of. If that page converts badly, more traffic just costs more money. These get checked before any budget increases.

Buy Box ownership

Ads stop serving when you lose the Buy Box. Pricing, fulfilment method and seller metrics all feed it — and losing it silently kills campaigns that looked healthy yesterday.

Listing quality

Title structure, bullet points, image count and quality, A+ content. Conversion rate on the listing determines whether any click is worth buying.

Reviews and rating

Below roughly 3.5 stars, or with very few reviews, paid traffic converts poorly regardless of targeting. Sometimes the honest advice is to fix this first.

Inventory health

Running ads into a product about to go out of stock wastes spend and damages the organic rank you have been paying to build.

Indexing

A product must be indexed for a keyword before advertising on it makes sense. Backend search terms and listing copy are checked against the target keyword set.

Category and variations

Correct category placement and properly structured parent-child variations, so reviews and sales history consolidate rather than fragment.

The work

What managing an Amazon account involves

WEEKLY

Search term harvesting

  • Search term reports mined for converting terms to promote to exact match
  • Non-converting terms negated at the right level
  • Competitor ASINs identified for product targeting campaigns
WEEKLY

Bid & placement management

  • Bidding strategy set deliberately — fixed, down only, or up and down
  • Placement modifiers for top-of-search, rest-of-search and product pages
  • Dayparting where purchase patterns justify it
MONTHLY

ACOS, TACOS & profitability

  • Target ACOS set from actual product margin, not a category benchmark
  • TACOS tracked as the real measure of whether the flywheel is working
  • Budget shifted between launch, growth and harvest products by lifecycle stage
ONGOING

Brand analytics

  • Search Query Performance reviewed for share of voice against competitors
  • Market basket analysis used to find cross-selling opportunities
  • New-to-brand metrics tracked where upper-funnel campaigns are running

Cost

What Amazon PPC management costs

Fee

Flat monthly fee

Based on catalogue size and campaign complexity, never a percentage of ad spend or of revenue. Quoted after a free account audit, once the real workload is known.

Why

Why not percentage of spend

Percentage pricing rewards a manager for spending more of your money — precisely the wrong incentive on a platform where the right answer is often to spend less on the wrong keywords.

Term

Month to month

No lock-in. You keep full ownership of the Amazon Advertising account, the campaign history and the search term data throughout.

Questions

Amazon PPC questions

What is a good ACOS on Amazon?
There is no universal number, and category benchmarks are misleading. The correct target comes from your product margin: if a product carries a 35% margin, an ACOS above 35% means that sale loses money in isolation. But a higher ACOS can still be right during a launch, where the campaign is buying organic rank that pays back later. Target ACOS should be set per product and per lifecycle stage, not once for the whole account.
What is the difference between ACOS and TACOS?
ACOS measures ad spend against sales generated by ads alone. TACOS — total advertising cost of sale — measures ad spend against your total sales, organic included. TACOS is the more honest measure, because it shows whether advertising is building organic momentum. Falling TACOS with flat ad spend means the flywheel is working.
Which Amazon ad types should I be running?
Sponsored Products is the foundation and where most accounts should start. Sponsored Brands becomes important once you have Brand Registry, particularly for defending your own brand terms. Sponsored Display handles competitor targeting and retargeting. Amazon DSP suits established brands with budget for upper-funnel work. Running only Sponsored Products leaves the defensive and awareness work undone.
How much does Amazon PPC management cost?
A flat monthly fee based on catalogue size and campaign complexity, rather than a percentage of ad spend or revenue. Percentage models reward a manager for spending more of your money, which is the wrong incentive on a platform where the right answer is often to spend less on the wrong keywords. The fee is quoted after a free audit.
Can advertising fix a product that isn't selling?
Usually not, and it is worth being direct about this. Amazon ads send traffic to a listing whose conversion rate depends on price, images, reviews, rating and Buy Box ownership. If those are weak, more traffic costs more money without producing more sales. The audit checks retail readiness first, and sometimes the honest recommendation is to fix the listing before increasing budget.
Do you work with Seller Central and Vendor Central?
Yes. The campaign types and reporting differ between them — Vendor Central accounts have access to different Sponsored Brands options and AMS reporting — but the underlying work of search term harvesting, bid management and margin-based targeting is the same.
Do you manage other platforms as well?
Yes. Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft Advertising and ChatGPT Ads are managed under the same arrangement. For brands selling both on Amazon and through their own store, seeing both sides together matters — the two channels frequently cannibalise each other in ways that are invisible when each is managed separately.
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