Q4 PPC Strategies
Before the prime day event / Lead in Prime Day Event
- Identify Top performing ASINs or unadvertised products where you want to run the deals and discount
- Launch New Campaigns like SP Auto , SD Remarketing , SB Video via AMS for deal ASINS two weeks prior to Prime Day and optimize through Bulk Actions to adjust bids, placements, and keyword harvesting regularly for optimization
- Leverage Heatmaps to set Placement & Budget Dayparting rules to ensure your products remain on Top of Search (TOS) and avoid risk of going out of budget during exceeding peak hours and reduce spend during off-peak hours to avoid wasting budget
- Any ASIN with high Organic rank where you are not running a deal, reduce the bids for corresponding campaigns
- Do Not run out of inventory - Enable Inventory Automation Alerts - Set up alerts when inventory falls below a defined threshold. Automatically pause campaigns or ad groups tied to low-stock ASINs. Resume them when inventory is replenished.
- Prioritize Search term keyword harvesting from Auto campaign and add them to manual campaigns in exact-match keywords to expand audience and enhance visibility for your products
- Optimize Keyword Strategy by reducing bids/pausing broad match type to avoid wasteful spend
- Exclude low performing keywords with high spend and no or low sales by adding them as Negatives
- Add the AMC audience in your campaign and track its performance separately using bulk action
- Use inserts in product packaging to get max reviews
During the prime day event / In- Event
- Do Not run out of Budget - Enable performance based budget automation or dayparting on your campaigns
- Monitor Real-Time Keyword Ranking with Live Ads: Utilize Live Ads feature to track keyword rankings in real-time and instantly adjust bids for low-visibility keywords
- Maximize Efficiency with Bulk Actions by initiating quick bid adjustments, keyword refinements, and campaign optimizations at scale
- Track Competition with Share of Voice and Live Ads - Monitor competitors’ ad visibility using Share of Voice Report in live ads. Stay competitive and protect your category share
After the prime day event / Prime Day Lead -out
- Scale down your bids after the event to continue engaging with the shoppers
- Take a stock of returns
GIF Opportunities by Amazon to implement for better performance
SP Growth Opportunity
● Identify ASIN with Units Sold >= 2 in last 30 Days OR >=1 Unit in last 7 or SP Unadvertised days
● Create SP campaigns by considering the identified ASINs
● Create new single ASIN Ad groups in new SP campaigns to help increase potential impressions
1. Increase Budget for Top Performing SP , SB & SD Campaigns
● For campaigns with high ROAS and regular budget utilization, increasing daily campaign budgets higher than average daily ad spend can help ensure they stay active
● Identify Campaigns with ROAS >= 0.8 Advertiser ROAS , Avg. Campaign spend >= 500 with >70% Budget Utilization and Avg. campaign spend >=300 with >50% budget utilization
● Increase budgets of these identified campaigns by 1.5 x Base Budget (Automation )
2. Create SD Views Remarketing campaign
● Identify ASINs with Units Sold >= 2 in last 30 Days and >=1 in last 7 days
● Create SD campaigns for the identified ASINs (Best Practice: Utilize campaign creation strategy of 1 ASIN - 1 Ad Group)
● SD GMS-Weighted ASIN Remarketed with impressions (GMS of ASINs with >=1 SD remarketing impressions / GMS of all ASINs
● Also Optimize the current campaigns to drive SD impressions
3. Top of Search Multiplier
● Increase Top of Search multiplier to leverage strong campaign performance
● Identify Campaigns with > 1.3 ROAS , Campaigns with null OR TOS modifier < 15 as of Base Date and Campaigns with > 0.8 Advertiser ROAS having Avg Spend > 300
● Increase TOS Modifier - Recommended 50% or more
● % Revenue covered in TOS adopted campaign (Ad revenue covered under campaigns with TOS bid modifier > 15% / Ad revenue from TOS eligible campaigns)
4. Create New Campaigns for SD Ad Ready ASINs
● Ad-Ready New ASINs Advertised with impressions Ad ready advertised with T7D GMS >=1 unit, ASIN launched in T90
5. Audience Adoption
● Adopt Audience Bid Modifier on Amazon built Audiences
● Identify more than 2 campaigns which audience
● Campaigns delivering >1 impression from the Base Date