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Sponsored Products

Show your products in key moments

Sponsored Products are cost-per-click (CPC) ads that promote individual product listings on Amazon and select premium apps and websites. You can create a campaign in just a few minutes, with image or video, even if you’ve never advertised before.

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How does Sponsored Products work?

You select products to advertise and choose keywords to target, or let Amazon’s systems target relevant keywords automatically. You control how much you want to spend on bids and budgets and can measure ad performance. Ads appear as an image or, with the new Sponsored Products video, as a long-form interactive video. Ads serve both on desktop and mobile browsers as well as on the Amazon mobile app. When customers click your ad, they go to the advertised product’s detail page.

Why should I use Sponsored Products?

Sponsored Products helps you promote your products, increase sales, and improve product visibility on Amazon and select premium apps and websites. This is a cost-effective and insight-driven solution for both new and established advertisers to plan, launch, and optimize with agility.

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Where do Sponsored Products ads appear?

Ads appear on the Amazon store and beyond, including other Amazon-owned and operated sites as well as third-party destinations, with support for browser and app experiences across devices, desktop, mobile, and tablet.

On Amazon

On the Amazon store, your ads may be displayed at the top of, alongside, or within shopping results and on product pages.

Beyond Amazon

Beyond Amazon including other Amazon-owned and operated sites as well as third-party destinations, with support for browser and app experiences across devices, desktop, mobile, and tablet.

Benefits

Benefits of Sponsored Products

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Drive sales with a few clicks

Sponsored Products takes shoppers directly to the product detail page and can help boost sales of individual products by making it simple for customers to browse or buy in just one or two clicks.

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Encourage informed buying decisions

Only appear when your advertised items are in stock and show multiple product features using images and video to help customers make informed browsing and buying decisions

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Reach consumers with relevant messaging

Select from flexible keyword and product targeting options and apply recommendations to reach relevant shoppers at the right time.

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Optimize with smarter insights

Stay in control of your ad performance—set your budget, choose your bids, pay only for clicks, and refine your campaigns using actionable campaign reporting insights.

NEWS

Sponsored Products news

WHATS NEW

Show your products in action with Sponsored Products video

Turn browsers into confident shoppers by highlighting relevant product features when it matters most.

Case studies

Sponsored Products case studies

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Growing greens: Amazon Ads helps boost Bloom Nutrition’s brand growth

Learn how the Advertiser Accelerator Program (beta) can help growing brands like Bloom Nutrition optimize their campaigns and find success.

Key learnings

285%

Lift in ad-attributed impressions.

89%

Lift in ad-attributed sales.

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GROOVE helps Japanese skin-care brand increase sales.

GROOVE helped AMBiQUE, a men’s skin-care brand, increase sales by 422% year over year with sponsored ads.

Key learnings

+422%

Increase in sales in Japan in 2021.

90%

Increased new-to-brand customers from 80% to over 90% in six months.

How do I create a Sponsored Products campaign?

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Sign in to your account, click “Create campaign” and choose Sponsored Products.

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Add the products that you want to advertise.

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Define your targeting, keyword, and bidding strategies.

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Choose your settings: Give your campaign a name, define your start and end dates, and input your daily budget.

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Launch your campaign.

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Frequently asked
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Who can use Sponsored Products?

Sponsored Products are available for professional sellers, vendors, book vendors, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) authors, and agencies. Products must be in one or more eligible categories and be eligible for the Featured Offer in order to advertise.

North America
  • CA
  • MX
  • US
South America
  • BR
Europe
  • BE
  • DE
  • ES
  • FR
  • IE
  • IT
  • NL
  • PL
  • SE
  • TR
  • UK
Middle East
  • EG
  • KSA
  • UAE
Asia Pacific
  • AU
  • IN
  • JP
  • SG
Africa
  • ZA
How much do Sponsored Products ads cost?

Sponsored Products campaigns have no monthly or upfront fees. You bid the maximum amount that you’re willing to pay when a shopper clicks an ad for your products. The more competitive your bid, the more likely your ad is to be displayed when it matches a customer’s shopping query. Learn more about cost per click (CPC) advertising.

What results can I expect from Sponsored Products?

We provide a range of tools and reports to help you optimize campaign performance and measure success. Once you have launched your campaign, you can generate reports that provide insight on sales and performance of advertised products or targets, how different ad placements are performing, and more. Use these advertising analytics to identify successful tactics for your business and to help optimize your campaigns.

What products are eligible for Sponsored Products?

At this time, adult products, used products, refurbished products, and products in closed categories are not eligible for advertising. Review the creative acceptance policies for Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Products for a full list of permitted and prohibited categories.

How does bidding work for Sponsored Products?

When creating a campaign, an advertiser enters a bid for the keywords that they want to target. A bid is the maximum amount you are willing to pay when a customer clicks an ad.

How do Sponsored Products budgets work?

For Sponsored Products, you’ll set a daily budget for your campaign. The daily budget is a daily amount you are willing to spend on a campaign over a calendar month. For example, if you set your daily budget at $100, you may receive up to $3,100 worth of clicks in that calendar month (assuming a full 31-day month). Daily budgets are not paced throughout the day, meaning a smaller daily budget could be spent in a few minutes if there are a large number of shoppers interested in your advertised products.

Regardless, you control 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. You can increase or decrease your daily budget once your ads are live.