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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.

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What is AMC?

AMC is a reporting and analytics solution. It uses customer data from Amazon to provide brands with valuable insights. AMC has been built on Amazon's Web Services cloud platform. With AMC being built on a cloud system, it can provide analysis on multiple datasets to generate aggregated reports.

AMC allows advertisers to see how their marketing efforts impact several channels. Advertisers can see multiple campaign metrics so they can understand consumer behaviour and make better marketing decisions.

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Custom Audiences with AMC

AMC allows advertisers to create custom audiences with the audience creation and activation feature. These custom audiences can be used for your DSP campaigns. You will need to be proficient with using SQL queries to create these custom audiences.

Being able to create custom audiences will only help your campaigns and marketing efforts due to being able to specifically tailor your ads to an audience that is based off real data and multiple factors. Advertisers can create audiences within AMC by utilising a lookback window of up to 12.5 months worth of data.

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Why should you be using AMC?

1. Enhanced new-to-brand insights

Due to limited statistics available in Amazon's sponsored ads ecosystem, specifically for Sponsored Products ads, AMC can provide advertisers with data on first time buyers for brands.

Due to this more valuable insight offered by AMC, advertisers can easily identify campaigns that have high new-to-brand customers, which will have a positive impact as you will be able to enhance ads even more.

2. Wider knowledge of your audience

AMC can help advertisers see where customers encounter their ads. This allows advertisers to see what specific ads reach customers at specific stages of the marketing funnel, for example, during the awareness stage or before they convert.

This data can be used to gain a better understanding of your audience, which will help you be able to create better ad campaigns based on specific campaign goals.

3. Streamlined marketing efforts

Due to AMC having such a wide range of tools and capabilities, it allows advertisers to manage all marketing efforts in one place, ranging from ad campaigns to social media to email marketing.

This helps advertisers save time and gain a complete view of all marketing efforts, which will allow for advertisers to be able to understand where their effort is best pushed towards in terms of specific campaigns.

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How do you access AMC?

  1. Be an advertiser or an advertising partner.
  2. Make use of the Amazon DSP.
  3. Be proficient in SQL.
  4. Have an Amazon Web Services account.
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How is AMC different from Amazon DSP reporting?

By adding cross-channel media performance to its reporting capabilities, AMC improves upon the reporting elements already present in Amazon DSP. AMC's reports are the outcome of analyses using SQL queries.

These results are sent to your Amazon Web Services S3 bucket or are provided as a CSV file that may be downloaded. However, pre-aggregated standard metrics are available through Amazon DSP reporting and can be retrieved on demand via the API or the Amazon DSP console. An assessment of the effectiveness of your media purchase and platform activities within Amazon DSP is possible by this reporting feature.

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AMC Summary

AMC is a strong and all-inclusive option for companies trying to maximise their marketing expenditures. With its omni-channel impact analysis, tailored audiences, clean room environment, and cutting-edge subscription-based features, AMC gives organisations a competitive edge in the constantly changing digital marketplace.

Brands may enhance targeting and personalisation, increase ROI, and obtain insightful knowledge about the behaviour and engagement of their customers by utilising AMC's extensive suite of tools. Investing in a platform such as AMC is essential for brands hoping to stay ahead of the curve and achieve success with their marketing endeavours.

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