Dutch consumer electronics company Lenco uses sponsored ads for UK launch

We believe that in order to operate in a foreign country, you need local expertise. With Molzi’s knowledge of the region and Amazon specialisation, we were confident that we could successfully launch in the UK marketplace.

– Manfred Krauss, Head of e-commerce, Lenco

Before starting to advertise, Molzi wanted to ensure that Lenco’s products were retail-ready – in stock and with updated images and descriptions – to improve the customer experience. Molzi looked at the entire product range, sales history, reviews, stock level and overall margins. It also optimised the content by updating the titles and images on Lenco’s detail pages to help with conversion when customers navigated to the detail page. Once the products were retail-ready, Molzi moved to the next phase: developing a strategy.

Molzi started by creating Sponsored Products campaigns to help grow sales. Sponsored Products campaigns help Amazon customers discover and purchase products with ads that appear in search results and product pages.

Molzi then focused on creating a separate campaign for each ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number), which made it easier to target keyword-specific features, such as colour and size.

For targeting, Molzi conducted research to identify which categories would most likely lead to conversions. For example, it advertised one of Lenco’s tower Bluetooth speakers and targeted keywords in both the Bluetooth and speaker categories, which are relevant to the product line. Additionally, while branded keywords can have a low ACOS (advertising cost of sales), Molzi focused on driving sales for Lenco’s business by targeting category keywords rather than keywords that feature the Lenco brand name.

Once the campaign had launched, Molzi checked performance daily to adjust the bids, budgets and targeted keywords to ensure that Lenco was driving sales at an ACOS of around 20%.

Once the Sponsored Products campaign had started delivering results, Molzi then implemented Sponsored Brands campaigns. Sponsored Brands can feature a brand logo, custom headline and multiple products, and help drive brand discovery. Molzi helped drive awareness for Lenco products by targeting its branded and strategic category keywords with higher bids, which helped lower the overall ACOS for the campaigns and drive greater awareness across the consumer electronics category for Lenco’s products.

Similar to the Sponsored Products campaigns, Molzi wanted to ensure that the campaign was relevant to the targeted keywords. As Sponsored Brands requires brands to advertise a collection of items, Molzi grouped similar products together into the campaigns and targeted relevant keywords. Molzi also optimised the campaigns daily by reviewing product-specific impressions and modifying bids to help drive toward the overall ACOS goal of 20%.

Lenco was able to achieve its goals with Amazon Ads. It saw sales attributed to advertising increase four-fold in the second half of 2018 compared to the first half of 2018, with a steady ACOS of 17%. Lenco’s Sponsored Brands campaigns also drove over 1.25 million impressions, primarily in Q4.

We used sponsored ads because not only does it help increase overall sales, but it can also create brand awareness and product visibility that help drive even more sales. We would recommend sponsored ads to any advertiser.

– Manfred Krauss, Head of e-commerce, Lenco