Category benchmarks for Sponsored Brands

Advertisers can now evaluate their Sponsored Brands performance relative to their peers using the category benchmark downloadable report. Category benchmarks are available for impressions, click-through rate (CTR), return on ad spend (ROAS), and advertising cost of sales (ACOS). For each metric and key performance indicator (KPI), the benchmark presents your performance with your closest peers’ performance values at the median, lower performing quartile (bottom 25%), and top performing quartile (top 25%) within specific shopping categories.

With this data, you can compare your performance relative to your peers, identify improvement areas like insufficient spend in categories with lower relative impressions, and inform overall brand strategy.

You can now analyze the performance of your Sponsored Brands campaigns using both your own campaign performance and benchmarked peer performance with category benchmarks. You can better understand how performance changes are impacted by your own campaign optimizations or category trends. The category benchmark report is available for a 90-day look back window.

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