Amazon Ads and the Digital Markets Act

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a regulation in the European Union (E.U.) that introduces a range of obligations and comes into effect from March 6. In September 2023, Amazon was designated as a “gatekeeper.”

Since designation, Amazon Ads has been working constructively with the European Commission and is making modifications for compliance. For example, we are adding more granularity to our pricing reports. Today our advertiser and publisher customers have real-time access to extensive pricing information. From March 6, advertisers and publishers with campaigns in the E.U. will have access to new, expanded reports that will provide data on the fees paid by the advertiser and received by the publisher for ads shown on third-party websites and apps. Our advertiser and publisher customers can choose whether they wish to disclose their fee data or simply be included in the default aggregated metrics. The new reports will be available on the Amazon Ads console for advertisers and on the Amazon Publisher Services portal for publishers.

We are also updating how our advertising customers can measure performance. On March 6, Amazon Ads will introduce a new dedicated secure data environment—or clean room—where advertisers with campaigns running in the E.U. can independently verify the success and impact of their campaigns in a privacy-safe, cloud-based environment. The new clean room builds on and complements our extensive measurement capabilities that include Amazon Marketing Cloud and the industry-standard campaign reporting available through Amazon DSP and the Amazon Ads console.

In preparation for the DMA, we also recently made changes to the advertising choices available to customers. When customers visit our E.U. store, we ask them to share consent for use of their personal information from any Amazon service or third party to show them personalized ads. To explain the updates, we’ve introduced a new help page that describes how we are evolving our approach. As always, customers have complete control of their personal information and can update their preferences at any time by visiting our cookies and advertising choices page.

We are thankful to the advertisers, agencies, and publishers who have provided helpful feedback on the updates we are making, and we will continue to work with them and the European Commission as we finalize our compliance plans.