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Amazon Seller Alert! Recent Change to Amazon PPC Advertising Could Increase Your Spend by 100% – Guest Post by Amy Wees

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There have been significant changes to Amazon’s advertising campaign settings recently. These changes seem to be coming in thick and fast, every time I check my campaign manager, something appears to be different.

Exciting New Features

Some of these changes are highly beneficial, such as the new ‘targeting’ tab. This tool allows you to monitor the performance of clicks, orders, and impressions for various keywords across all your campaigns. It enables you to adjust bids, and easily compare campaign performance all from one place.

Amazon advertising targeting tab in campaign managerAnother welcome change is the introduction of additional data points, such as the percentage of orders from new customers, video views, and the ability to retarget customers who have viewed your ads on or off Amazon. You can explore all of these data points when you click on columns inside your campaign manager.

Hidden Costs: Dynamic Bids and Excessive Spending

However, some recent changes could significantly increase your advertising costs. What’s troubling about these changes is their silent introduction – no email notifications or banners in your campaign manager.

One such change is the auto-selection of dynamic up and down bids when you create a new campaign. I noticed this when auditing a client’s PPC campaigns. Her cost per click for each keyword and product target was significantly more than her bid, and these costly keywords were not converting. It turned out, dynamic up and down was set for all her campaigns, leading to excess spending. To rectify this, we changed the setting to ‘dynamic down’ only.

amazon advertising dynamic up and down setting what is it

Daily Budget Spend Settings: A Cause for Alarm

Another more recent change that caught my attention is the ‘daily budget spend settings.’ This new feature allows Amazon PPC to spend up to 100% more than your daily budget based on unused daily budgets from previous days.

I spotted this when a client’s campaign spent $40 more per day than her max daily budget. On checking the settings tab, I found this new option had been auto-selected in her account, and she had two choices: spend 25% more or 100% more.

Unfortunately, there was no increase in sales conversions to justify the extra spend. And for sellers operating with narrow margins, this sudden cost spike could prove detrimental.

amazon advertising daily budget spending increased to 100%

How to Prevent Unwanted Extra Spend

There seems to be one workaround: setting a daily budget cap under your settings tab as selected in the above image. From the feedback on my social media post about this topic, other sellers have noted the same.

Amazon’s Obligation to Sellers

When it comes to spending extra money on ads, I believe Amazon has a responsibility to notify sellers about these critical changes to their advertising settings. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be happening, so we sellers must stick together and look out for each other.

Community Power and Seller Support

As a part of this close-knit community of sellers, I have voiced these concerns on Twitter and tagged Amazon, hoping to draw attention and elicit some response to these latest advertising settings that are costing sellers more money without necessarily leading to increased sales conversions.

Get in Touch

Need help navigating Amazon PPC or assistance with anything related to selling on Amazon? Schedule a call with me today at Amazing at Home eCommerce Consulting.

About the Author

Amy Wees is the CEO of Amazing at Home E-Commerce Consulting, a company that has aided thousands of brands to launch private label products on Amazon and beyond. She has also co-founded the only multi-category tradeshow in Latin America (EvoLatam.com) and her consulting and courses are well-regarded globally.

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Amazon Seller Alert! Recent Change to Amazon PPC Advertising Could Increase Your Spend by 100% – Guest Post by Amy Wees

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