Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a type of paid advertising where ads display at no charge—ad impressions, or views, are free, and the advertiser is only charged when a customer clicks on the ad. Amazon Advertising ad types run on the PPC model.
Whether you’ve published one title or thousands, Amazon offers unique advertising solutions for the books category through Amazon Advertising. These advertising solutions are currently available to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors and books vendors with a retail relationship.
With Amazon Advertising, you can:
Please review our policies and ad requirements before submitting your ads.
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) is a type of paid advertising where ads display at no charge—ad impressions, or views, are free, and the advertiser is only charged when a customer clicks on the ad. Amazon Advertising ad types run on the PPC model.
Sponsored Products is an ad type that can increase search visibility, utilizing keywords to target customers. The ads serve both on desktop and mobile browsers as well as on the Amazon Smartphone App. Clicks on the ads drive customers to the advertised product’s detail page.
Product Display Ads (PDA) target your ads by related products (books or otherwise) or by customer interest (genre). The ads serve on desktop detail pages and campaigns targeted by customer interest may qualify for additional ad placement on Kindle E-readers.
Amazon Advertising ads are pay-per-click, meaning you only pay when shoppers click on your ad. The minimum budget to run an ad is $1/day or $100 per campaign, depending on the ad type you choose.
While the budget allows you to control the spend on a campaign, Amazon Advertising sets minimum budget requirements for running your ad campaigns to help ensure you’re getting the most out of your ad run. The average daily budget minimum is $1 per day, and the minimum campaign budget is $100. We recommend at least 60 days’ campaign length to give the ads the chance to get measurable campaign results.
Yes, you can increase your budget once the ad is live.
When creating a campaign, an advertiser enters a bid for the keywords, genres or products that they want to target. A bid is the maximum amount you are willing to pay when a targeted shopper clicks on an ad. To make bidding easier, Amazon Advertising provides a suggested bid amount in the ad builder.
Depending on which ad type you choose, your budget will be used in one of two ways:
Regardless of how your budget is spent, Amazon Advertising ads give you control over the total amount you want to spend—the final cost will never be more than the amount you’ve set for your campaign’s duration.
At this time, advertising solutions for books through Amazon Advertising are only available to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors and books vendors with a retail relationship.
Advertisements must be appropriate for a general audience, available in the English language, and must meet the Book Ads Acceptance Policy for advertising. When Amazon Advertising generates creative for your advertisements, your book’s cover, title, and content are part of the advertisement and will be reviewed. Custom ad images you upload will also be reviewed for alignment with the policies.
Some common reasons that campaigns are rejected for advertising include poor quality images or covers, unreadable text, typos in text, content not appropriate for a general audience, and content that is not localized for use in the United States.