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Amazon Ads that sell,
not just win the click.

Amazon punishes a weak listing: win the click, and a thin title or a stockout loses the sale anyway. Our Amazon PPC management runs Sponsored Products, Brands and Display with the listing fixed first, and ad cost graded against total sales, not just the sales ads get credit for.

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PixelCrayons' Amazon Ads service manages Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display against total sales, not against a flattering ad-cost ratio. Campaigns are structured per ASIN (Amazon's ID for each product listing) so spend follows what the catalogue can deliver. Search terms are sculpted weekly, negatives applied where they stay gone, and Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display used for a stated job rather than as generic top-of-funnel spend. Listing content, backend search terms and stock status are reviewed wherever they cap what a bid can achieve. Two ratios are reported side by side: ACOS, ad spend divided by ad-attributed sales, and TACOS, ad spend divided by every sale the product made, so an improving ratio never hides sales the business lost. Direct for brands; white-label for agencies.

  • Every account audited before a dollar moves
  • Search terms sculpted every week, at the ASIN level
  • ACOS tracked next to TACOS, not instead of it
  • Stockouts and Buy Box losses flagged before bids change
  • Your Amazon ad account stays yours
  • Account audits in 48 hours
The operating record

Judge the record,
not the adjectives.

Outcomes tied to real engagements, not averages.

21 yrs
Years in continuous delivery
100+
Agency partnerships
2,500+
Projects delivered
30+
Countries served
2+ yrs
Average partner retention
14 days
NDA to first deliverable
340%
Revenue growth · 7 months
Client outcome: eCommerce
+127%
Organic traffic · 5 months
Client outcome: SaaS
85%
Faster delivery · zero churn
Client outcome: via agency partner
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Where the work happens
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Every month, in writing

What the management
actually covers.

01

Sponsored Products, kept relevant

The core of most Amazon accounts. Campaigns are structured per product so exact, phrase and auto each do one job instead of bidding against each other. The search-term report is read every week. Converting queries get their own campaigns and junk is negated where it stays gone. Auto campaigns feed the exact terms they discover rather than running blind.

Weekly
02

Sponsored Brands and Display, used for a reason

Sponsored Brands earns its budget defending category and competitor search terms once Sponsored Products is clean, not as an automatic add-on. Sponsored Display targets cart abandoners, complementary products and category defence, with placements chosen for the job. A campaign type never runs simply because the console offered it.

Per launch
03

Catalogue and listings, graded on ad performance

Titles, bullets, backend search terms and A+ content are reviewed wherever they cap what an ad can achieve. A listing that can't convert the click a bid just won is a catalogue problem wearing a bidding costume. This stays in its lane. It is not full marketplace SEO or catalogue operations, only the layer that decides whether spend converts once it lands. Stockouts and a lost Buy Box (another seller holding the Add to Cart button) are flagged before the bid takes the blame.

Per ASIN
04

ACOS held against TACOS

Two ratios, plain terms. ACOS is ad spend divided by ad-attributed sales. TACOS is ad spend divided by every sale the product made, organic included. ACOS alone misleads: cut spend and the ratio improves while total sales quietly shrink. Ad-driven orders also feed the organic rank and reviews Amazon rewards. We report both side by side. Where they disagree, the conversation is with you, not a dashboard.

Monthly review
05

Budgets that follow the catalogue

Every month, spend moves toward the products converting and away from listings a stockout or content gap has made unable to sell. Placement and time-of-day bid modifiers are reviewed on the evidence rather than left at their defaults. Out-of-stock products are paused before they burn budget on a page that can't take the order.

Monthly
First 30 days

Leaks to sculpted,
catalogue first.

01
Days 1 to 2

Catalogue & account audit

Campaign structure, the search-term report, listing content, stock status and Buy Box health torn down before anything changes. The baseline records both ratios, where spend leaks, and which products the catalogue itself is holding back.

02
Week 1

Structure & fixes, priced

A rebuilt campaign plan and a listing fix list, priced separately. You can see what's an ad change and what's a catalogue change. You approve what moves and what it costs before a single bid changes. Ad spend is not in that price: Amazon bills it to you directly.

03
Weeks 2 to 4

Sculpt & verify

Negatives applied, budgets reallocated to ready products, the priority listing fixes shipped, and the first restructured campaigns spending. The account earns its budget back before we argue for more of it.

04
Month 2+

The weekly cadence

Search terms sculpted weekly, ACOS reviewed against TACOS monthly. Every budget shift is argued from the search-term and catalogue data, in reporting a CFO could audit.

Inside Prism

Your engagement, week to week,
in one workspace.

Every marketing engagement runs in a Prism workspace you log into: requests, approvals, tasks and the weekly review, with the cost of each channel beside the leads it produced.

  • 01

    Requests and approvals

    One queue, one owner, one due date.

  • 02

    Weekly review

    Each decision recorded, with the expectation attached.

  • 03

    Cost per qualified lead

    Fully loaded. Unmeasured spend shows as unknown, never zero.

How we report it, in Prism

The listing and the ledger,
reported together.

What you receive in month one

Amazon advertising is reported alongside the catalogue it depends on. In the first month you receive the listing readiness review, which names the products fit to advertise and the ones that need images, copy or stock first, the campaign structure by product group, and the search-term report with harvested and negated terms. Advertising cost of sale is shown per group, never blended.

  • 01Listing readiness review: products ready, products held back, and why
  • 02Campaign structure: product groups, match types, budgets
  • 03Search-term report: harvested terms, negated terms, the reason for each
  • 04Weekly sheet in Prism: spend, attributed sales, advertising cost of sale by group
  • 05Stock and price watch: campaigns paused when inventory or margin falls

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Around the platform

One platform in
a bigger plan.

Amazon Ads is one platform inside our PPC practice, where the media plan and monthly rebalance live. Google Ads and Meta Ads capture and create demand off the marketplace. Want listings, reviews and brand protection handled too? See Amazon marketing. Selling off Amazon too? Start at the hub.

Questions

Frequently
asked.

Almost always Sponsored Products first, because it captures buyers already searching for what you sell. The same logic puts Search ahead of prospecting on other platforms. Sponsored Brands earns its place once that foundation is clean, defending category and competitor terms with your brand front and centre. Sponsored Display comes third for most catalogues: retargeting cart abandoners and placing complementary ASINs in front of relevant shoppers. The exact split depends on your catalogue and category, which is why the audit looks at your search-term data before recommending one.

ACOS (Advertising Cost of Sales) measures ad spend against ad-attributed sales alone; TACOS (Total Advertising Cost of Sales) measures ad spend against every sale the ASIN made, ad-driven and organic together. Both matter. Reporting only ACOS is how an account can look like it's improving while the business shrinks: cutting spend often lowers ACOS even as total sales fall, because ad-driven purchases also feed the organic rank and review velocity Amazon rewards. We report both side by side so a bid decision that flatters one number can't hide what it costs the other.

We touch listings only where they cap what an ad can achieve. Titles, bullets and backend search terms get reviewed against the queries you're actually bidding on, A+ content gets checked where it affects conversion, and stockouts or Buy Box losses get flagged before a falling ACOS gets blamed on the campaign instead of the catalogue. That is deliberately narrower than full marketplace SEO or catalogue operations as their own discipline; it's the layer between a won click and a completed sale, not a rewrite of your entire product content strategy.

With the same weekly discipline: the search-term report read every week, converting queries promoted into their own tightly-themed campaigns, and irrelevant queries negated at the level where they stay gone. Auto campaigns are treated as discovery tools that feed exact and phrase campaigns, not left running indefinitely on their own judgement. Placement and dayparting modifiers are reviewed against the data rather than left at Amazon's defaults, which quietly favour Amazon's own placements over your margin.

No: auction pressure, competitor activity, seasonality and category demand all sit outside anyone's control. A guaranteed ratio from an agency that hasn't seen your account is a sales tactic, not a forecast. What we commit to contractually is the work: search terms sculpted weekly, catalogue issues flagged before they're blamed on bids, ACOS reported next to TACOS, and budgets rebalanced on evidence every month. Two invoices, not one: our management fee, and your ad spend, which Amazon bills to you directly and which is never part of the fee. Your ad account is created in your name and stays yours, so the results are always checkable.

Yes: Amazon Ads ships under partner agencies' brands like every service here: your reporting templates, your client calls, our specialists. Client ad accounts stay in the client's name throughout, so nothing is held hostage. The arrangement is NDA-backed, with a contractual commitment never to approach your clients plus a 12-month post-engagement blackout. 100+ agencies work with us this way, and the average partnership runs past the two-year mark.

Only once the weakest listings are fixed. A bid can win the click, but a thin title or a stockout still loses the sale. That is why we review listing content, backend search terms and stock status wherever they cap what an ad can achieve. Out-of-stock products are paused before they burn budget.

Find out what your
ACOS is actually hiding.

A free Amazon Ads review in 48 hours: search terms, campaign structure, catalogue health and the ACOS-versus-TACOS picture, with the fix list ranked by wasted spend. Keep it whether or not we ever work together.

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