ADVERTISING
Advertising solutions with sponsored ads
Meet audiences where they shop, read, listen, and watch with Amazon Ads. Our products can help you reach more customers and grow your brand. Sponsored ads campaigns are easy to set up.
Achieve your business goals
Get discovered
Advertising provides a visibility boost to your brand and products. Ads appear in highly visible placements, within shopping results or on product detail pages.
Increase sales
Many shoppers come to Amazon ready to buy. Advertising can help you reach customers who are looking for products like yours.
Control costs
Optimize your advertising budget. Campaign reports track ad spend and performance, so you can learn what’s working and fine-tune your campaigns.
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Advertising solutions with sponsored ads
Start using sponsored ads to help you meet your goals
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Sponsored Products
Sponsored Products are cost-per-click (CPC) ads that promote individual product listings on Amazon. In just a few minutes, you can create a campaign, even if you’ve never advertised before.
Sponsored Products can help customers find your products by quickly creating ads that appear in related shopping results and product pages.
Sponsored Brands
Sponsored Brands are cost-per-click (CPC) ads that feature your brand logo, a custom headline, and multiple products. These ads appear in relevant shopping results and help drive discovery of your brand among customers shopping for similar products.
Sponsored Brands can help customers discover your brand and products with creative ads that appear in relevant Amazon shopping results.
Sponsored Display
Sponsored Display is a self-service display advertising solution that helps you grow your business and brand by engaging shoppers across the purchase journey, wherever they spend time.
Sponsored Display helps you reach the right audience for your business—across the Amazon store, plus thousands of third-party destinations—with display advertising that is easy to create and manage.
Stores
Amazon Stores allow you to showcase your brand and products in a multipage, immersive shopping experience.
No matter the size of your brand, Stores give you an immersive place to introduce audiences to your story, mission, and products.
Ready to get started? Here’s how it works
Step 1
Log in to Seller Central. If you’re new to selling on Amazon, sign up now
Click the ‘Advertising’ tab then follow the prompt to get started. Choose your campaign type and follow the steps to create your campaign. If you want to set up a Store, click the ‘Stores’ tab and follow the steps to build your first page.
Step 2
Figure out your strategy
To get started, we recommend launching a Sponsored Products campaign first. You can pick the products you want to advertise, which can help your products be seen by more shoppers. Sponsored Products launch immediately, and you can choose between automatic and manual targeting. Once your products have started to get more engagement, consider using some of our other ad products, too.
Step 3
Launch on more ad products
Our other ad products to help you reach more shoppers include Sponsored Brands, Stores, and Sponsored Display. Based on relevance and bid, ads are shown to customers in high-visibility placements within shopping results and on product detail pages. With Sponsored Display, you also have the option to show your ads on third-party website and apps, helping you reach shoppers who viewed the detail pages of products sold by your brand, and encourage them to come back to those pages.
When shoppers click your Sponsored Products or Sponsored Display ads, they’re taken to your product detail page. Your Sponsored Brands ad will take shoppers to your Store or a custom landing page that displays your products.
When shoppers click your Sponsored Products or Sponsored Display ads, they’re taken to your product detail page. Your Sponsored Brands ad will take shoppers to your Store or a custom landing page that displays your products.
Step 4
Measure success
You will be able to track your impressions, clicks, click-through-rate, new-to-brand customers, traffic to your Store, advertising spend, and more. These insights will help you monitor advertising performance and optimize your campaigns.
Requirements to check before you start advertising
Account
You must have an active Professional seller account and, to use Sponsored Display, Sponsored Brands and Stores, be enrolled in the Amazon Brand Registry.
Featured Offer
The products you advertise with Sponsored Products must be eligible for Featured Offer placement.1 Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display will be shown to shoppers regardless of who is presenting the Featured Offer.
Products
At this time, we don’t support adult products, used or refurbished products, and products in closed categories. For a full list of permitted and prohibited categories review the creative acceptance policies for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display.
1If you create an ad for a product listing that is not eligible for Featured Offer placement, your ad will not display to Amazon shoppers. Ads that are not eligible are flagged in the campaign manager under the Advertising tab in Seller Central.
Advertise globally
Are you interested in international marketing? Don’t limit yourself to advertising only in your domestic marketplace. Build your international business and get your brand in front of Amazon customers around the world by advertising in all your eligible countries.
1.
Find a country you’re eligible to advertise in below.
2.
Click the flag for that country to sign in to Seller Central.*
3.
Click on the ‘Advertising’ tab, visit Campaign Manager and select “Create a campaign.”
*Registration required.
Helpful resources
Advertiser success guides
Get step-by-step instructions on getting started with sponsored ads.
Webinars
Join our live advertising webinars to help optimize your campaigns and learn advertising best practices and strategies. Marketing specialists will answer questions during live Q&A sessions.
Videos
Start advertising with these quick instructional videos from Seller University.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to frequently asked questions about Amazon Ads.
What are Sponsored Products?
Sponsored Products are cost-per-click (CPC) ads that promote individual product listings on Amazon. In just a few minutes, you can create a campaign, even if you've never advertised before.
Why should I use Sponsored Products?
Sponsored Products can help you increase visibility and sales of your products by displaying ads when shoppers are looking for products like yours. There are no monthly fees; you pay only when shoppers click your ad, which takes them to the product detail page where your offer is listed. Consider using Sponsored Products for product visibility, new offers, unique selections, offers with low glance views, clearance items, and seasonal promotions.
What are Sponsored Brands?
Sponsored Brands are CPC ads that feature your brand logo, a custom headline, and multiple products. These ads appear in relevant shopping results and help drive discovery of your brand among customers shopping for similar products.
Why should I use Sponsored Brands?
Sponsored Brands help visibility and sales for your brand and product portfolio by appearing in high-visibility locations within shopping results.
What is Sponsored Display?
Sponsored Display is a self-service display advertising solution that helps you grow your business and brand by engaging shoppers across the purchase journey, wherever they spend time.
Who can use Sponsored Brands, and Stores?
Sponsored Brands and Stores are available to professional sellers enrolled in the Amazon Brand Registry, vendors, and agencies with clients who sell products on Amazon in Canada.
To enroll your brand, you must have a registered and active trademark submitted and approved by Amazon. Learn more about enrolling your brand in the Amazon Brand Registry.
To enroll your brand, you must have a registered and active trademark submitted and approved by Amazon. Learn more about enrolling your brand in the Amazon Brand Registry.
What are Stores on Amazon?
Amazon Stores allow you to showcase your brand and products in a multipage, immersive shopping experience.
How can I measure the performance of my Store?
The Stores insights dashboard includes metrics such as daily visitors, page views, and sales generated from your Store. If you promote your Store in external marketing activities, you can also add a tag to the URL to analyze traffic sources to your Store.
Where will my ads be displayed?
Sponsored Products: Ads may be displayed at the top of, alongside, or within shopping results and on product pages, on desktop and mobile. Ads are shown to shoppers based on relevant keywords or products.
Sponsored Brands: Ads may be displayed on top of, alongside, or within shopping results. Ads may appear on both desktop and mobile.
Sponsored Display: Reach audiences as they browse, research, or buy products on the Amazon home page, product detail pages, shopping results pages, or Twitch, as well as third-party websites and apps in select marketplaces (offsite ads currently not available in IN, JP, AU).
Stores appear on the Amazon website on mobile, app, and desktop.
Sponsored Brands: Ads may be displayed on top of, alongside, or within shopping results. Ads may appear on both desktop and mobile.
Sponsored Display: Reach audiences as they browse, research, or buy products on the Amazon home page, product detail pages, shopping results pages, or Twitch, as well as third-party websites and apps in select marketplaces (offsite ads currently not available in IN, JP, AU).
Stores appear on the Amazon website on mobile, app, and desktop.
What products are not eligible for sponsored ads?
At this time, we don’t support adult products, used or refurbished products, and products in closed categories. For a full list of permitted and prohibited categories review the creative acceptance policies for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display.
What are the requirements to advertise?
An active Professional seller account.
- For Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display, and Stores, enrollment in the Amazon Brand Registry.
- For Sponsored Products, eligibility for the Featured Offer.
If you create a Sponsored Products ad for a product listing that is not eligible for Featured Offer placement, your ad will not display to Amazon shoppers. Ads that are not eligible are flagged in the campaign manager under the ‘Advertising’ tab in Seller Central. Sponsored Brands will be shown to shoppers regardless of who is presenting the Featured Offer.
How much does it cost?
- Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display are CPC ads, meaning you pay only when customers click your ad, and you control your campaign budget.
- The cost of display ad and video ad campaigns can vary depending on format and placement.
- Advertising through a managed-service option with an Amazon Ads account executive (display ads, video ads, and ads that are run through the Amazon DSP) typically require a minimum spend of $50,000 (USD). Contact an Amazon Ads account executive for more information.
- Custom programs are subject to a required minimum spend.
- You can create a Store for free.
- The cost of display ad and video ad campaigns can vary depending on format and placement.
- Advertising through a managed-service option with an Amazon Ads account executive (display ads, video ads, and ads that are run through the Amazon DSP) typically require a minimum spend of $50,000 (USD). Contact an Amazon Ads account executive for more information.
- Custom programs are subject to a required minimum spend.
- You can create a Store for free.
What is a Featured Offer?
The Featured Offer is the offer displayed on a product detail page with an Add to Cart button. A key feature of the Amazon website is that multiple sellers can offer the same product, so you may be one of many sellers who are considered for the Featured Offer placement. Amazon uses performance-based criteria to determine your Featured Offer eligibility and placement status.
What are keywords and how do they work?
A keyword is a single word or combination of words that you add to your Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands campaigns. Keywords are matched to shopping queries that customers use to look for products on Amazon and determine when your ads may appear. Note that keywords are only used for Sponsored Products or Sponsored Brands. Sponsored Display ads reach products, product categories, or customers' interests. What is CPC advertising?
What is CPC advertising?
Cost-per-click (CPC) advertising is a type of paid advertising where ads display at no charge—ad impressions, or views, are free—and the advertiser is charged only when customers click the ad. Sponsored ads, such as Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, run on the CPC model.
Important Notice for International Sellers
As an international seller there are important steps you must take before selling on our Amazon.ca store to ensure a great experience for you and for customers.
Please read this important information for international sellers for more details of your obligations as a seller on Amazon.ca.
As an international seller there are important steps you must take before selling on our Amazon.ca store to ensure a great experience for you and for customers.
Please read this important information for international sellers for more details of your obligations as a seller on Amazon.ca.
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