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25 papers on Amazon and TikTok Shop, from Prime Day planning to creative testing and AI-led discovery. Every one is here in full, no form to fill in.

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Cover artwork for How AI Assistants Are Changing Product Discovery and Shopping on Amazon and TikTok Shop
AI

How AI Assistants Are Changing Product Discovery and Shopping on Amazon and TikTok Shop

Discovery may begin on social platforms, evaluation increasingly happens through AI assistants, and the purchase still lands on a marketplace. What that three-way split means for brands on Amazon and TikTok Shop.

4 min readRead
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Creative

Creative Is the New Targeting: How Brands Win on Amazon in 2026

When every advertiser has the same bidding tools, the advantage moves to what happens after the click. Why creative is now the primary lever on conversion, TACOS and organic rank, and how to test it properly.

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Creative

Turning 2026 Browsers into Buyers on Amazon and TikTok Shop

Traffic is abundant, attention is not, and conversion is the bottleneck. What actually converts on an Amazon product detail page, what converts on TikTok Shop, and why trust is the lever most brands underuse.

4 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Beyond Prime Day 2026

Prime Day 2026 ran four days, order values softened and multi-order households rose. The 30 day post-Prime plan for turning that signal into a stronger Q3 and a better-prepared Q4.

July 2026 · 5 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Prime Day 2026 Playbook

Preparation, ads structure, real-time optimisation and creative that converts. What separates brands that scale efficiently through Prime Day from those that overspend for a temporary spike.

June 2026 · 4 min readRead
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Creative

Unlocking Growth Through Optimisation-Led Creative

Ads drive traffic, creative drives conversion. The four principles behind optimisation-led creative, and what happens across the main image, listing imagery, A+ Content and the Brand Store when you apply them.

May 2026 · 5 min readRead
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Creative

The Attention Economy: Winning Shoppers Before They Search

Amazon is no longer the starting point of the journey, it's the closing point. Why brands that only capture demand are fighting over a fixed pool, and how to generate it earlier instead.

April 2026 · 4 min readRead
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AI

Amazon's AI Shift: What Every Brand Needs to Know

Amazon has been quietly embedding AI across listings, search and advertising. Where it helps, where it flattens brands into sameness, and how to use the tools without handing over your identity.

July 2025 · 4 min readRead
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Prime Day

Preparing for Prime Day 2025: The Big 4 Day Event

Prime Day stretched to four days. What that changes about planning, deals, media spend, creative and operations, plus how to use the event as a live rehearsal for Q4.

June 2025 · 5 min readRead
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Creative

Beyond the Buy Box: Creative's Role in Driving Conversions

Winning the Buy Box used to be about price and fulfilment. Now creative sells. The Amazon creative stack, designing for scroll culture, and how to measure what your visuals are actually doing to conversion.

May 2025 · 3 min readRead
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TikTok Shop

The Ultimate E-Com Partnership: Amazon and TikTok

TikTok creates demand, Amazon captures it. How the two platforms differ, why Amazon brands are best placed to win on TikTok Shop, and a four-step playbook for running them together.

April 2025 · 3 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Amazon Growth Tactics for Q2

Q2 bridges the post-holiday slowdown and the pre-Q4 ramp-up. The tactics that matter across conversion, advertising, inventory and external traffic, and what success actually looks like by the end of the quarter.

March 2025 · 4 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Optimising Your Ads Strategy

Early-year optimisation is the cheapest advantage on Amazon. Why budget efficiency and clean data favour January, the four trends shaping Amazon advertising in 2025, and the steps to take now.

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Creative

The Power of Brand Storytelling

Features and price matter, but emotional connection is what differentiates. How to use A+ Content, Brand Stores, Sponsored Brands video and DSP to tell one coherent story across every Amazon touchpoint.

January 2025 · 5 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Preparing for the New Year

Q4 gets the attention, but Q1 sets the tone. Auditing Q4, planning inventory, launching campaigns while ad costs are low, and the four trends worth building around in 2025.

December 2024 · 5 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Ensuring Success in Q4

The month-by-month rundown of Q4, plus what to get right across inventory, advertising, promotions and listings. Includes a CPG brand that grew Q4 revenue past £900K with +270% YoY in November.

October 2024 · 5 min readRead
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Creative

The Power of Festive Content

How holiday shoppers actually behave, what festive A+ Content, keywords and Brand Stores do for visibility, and the ads and promotions that convert peak season intent.

3 min readRead
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Prime Day

Recapping Amazon Prime Day 2024

A full read on Prime Day 2024 across the US and Europe: category and CPC movement, who actually shopped, DSP's growing role, and a Toucan client that grew ordered revenue 366% against normal days.

July 2024 · 8 min readRead
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Prime Day

Preparing for Amazon Prime Day 2024

The full Prime Day planning timeline, the deal types and how they differ, and the advertising exposure, budget and bid moves that decide how the event goes for your brand.

June 2024 · 5 min readRead
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Amazon Marketing Cloud

Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC): The Impact It Can Have For Brands

What AMC actually is, how custom audiences get built and activated, the three reasons brands see a step change from using it, and how AMC reporting differs from what Amazon DSP gives you as standard.

April 2024 · 3 min readRead
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Creative

Stand Out, Sell More: Where Content Meets Commerce

Listing imagery, A+ Content and Brand Stores, with the numbers from real optimisation work: +63% ordered units, +53% conversion rate, and sales per visitor up 129% after a Brand Store relaunch.

3 min readRead
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Creative

Spring Into Success: Elevate Your Brand on Amazon This Easter

Seasonal imagery, stock, product offerings, engagement and visibility, plus the advertising timeline for Easter, Mother's Day and St Patrick's Day.

3 min readRead
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Amazon DSP

Unlocking the Power of Prime Video Ads

Prime Video advertising explained: the placements available, how targeting works, the audience data behind it, and why DSP access is what makes the inventory usable.

5 min readRead
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Amazon DSP

Amazon DSP: Your Brand in New Places

A working introduction to Amazon DSP: what programmatic buying actually is, every targeting option available, the ad formats, and what a full funnel activation did for one brand's paid and organic sales.

6 min readRead
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Amazon Ads

Sustainable Brands: Success on Amazon

How brands use Amazon Ads to meet demand for sustainability: the trends reshaping ad strategy, best practice for ad copy and creative, and the four audience types worth targeting.

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