How to use the new Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting

Amazon Advertising have launched a new format Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting which enables a much more granular approach to when and where your ads will appear. They will enable you to advertise directly against a particular competitor product which could be invaluable when listing a generic offer against a known brand. Advertisers will be able to refine when their ad is shown by price, brands or star rating.

“Product targeting allows you to choose specific products, categories, brands, or other product features that are similar to the product in your ad. Use this strategy to help shoppers find your product when browsing detail pages and categories, or when searching products on Amazon”
– Amazon

Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting

Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting offers features to Amazon merchants similar to those available to Amazon Vendors through Product Display Ads, but with even more flexible options.

The ability to target your offer against a specific ASIN (or set of ASINs) will for example give the ability to display a generic brand laptop against Lenovo laptops or a high end piece of Jewellery against other high end Jewellery, confident that the potential buyer is already in the market for this type of product.

Targeting by price

With the new level of control that come with Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting, you’ll be able to filter out results such as excluding low cost costume jewellery when you are promoting a high ticket priced item to avoid your offer appearing over priced. Equally if you are selling budget jewellery you’ll also be able to filter out high end offers and low priced costume jewellery so that you are targeting like for like products.

Targeting a competitor product

Targeting an individual product will be invaluable when you launch a new offer on Amazon and are competing against an established ASIN for a similar product – Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting will enable you to pin point your ad directly to consumers about to purchase the highly trafficed ASIN from your competitor.

Targeting by star rating

Adding Amazon Sponsored Ads Product Targeting filtering by star rating gives interesting possibilities, it enables you to display your product ads only against competing offers with a lower star rating than yours thus giving confidence to potential buyers that you have a quality product.

Negative targeting

As well as targeting ASINs or Brands, you can also use negative targeting, you may for instance want to exclude all of your own brand keywords so that you don’t end up competing against your own products on Amazon.