Cost and Delivery
Spend
The total amount of money spent running the advertising campaign. Cost is assessed per click or per 1,000 views depending on cost type.
Impressions
An impression occurs whenever an ad is displayed. The impressions metric is the total number of times your ad has been served to a user.
Clicks
A click occurs whenever a customer clicks an ad. The clicks metric is a count of how many times customers have clicked an ad.
Click Through Rate (CTR)
The ratio of how often customers click your ad when it's shown. We provide you with the CTR for each campaign and keyword. CTR is calculated as clicks divided by impressions.
Cost Per Click (CPC)
The average amount that you've paid for an ad click. It's calculated by dividing the total spend by the total number of clicks.
Cost Per Thousand Impressions (CPM)
The average cost you pay to deliver 1,000 impressions of your ads.
Sales and Efficiency
Ad Purchases
The number of Amazon orders shoppers placed after clicking your ads. This metric was previously labelled Ad Orders in Optmyzr, and was renamed to align with Amazon's own terminology.
Note: It can take up to 12 hours for your purchase metrics to update. As a result, these metrics may be delayed in the Today date range. We recommend waiting until all purchase metrics are populated before evaluating campaign performance.
Payment failures and orders that are cancelled within 72 hours will be removed from the totals. Learn more about Ad campaign attribution.
Ad Sales
Sales is the total value of purchases attributed to your ads. Attribution of the sale depends on campaign and account type. Learn more about Ad campaign attribution.
Ad Conversion Rate
Ad conversion rate is the ratio of purchases to clicks. For example, if you had 500 clicks and 50 purchases, your Ad Conversion Rate would be 10%.
Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)
The advertising cost incurred per ad purchase. Cost of Acquisition = Total Cost / Total Ad Purchases.
Example: If you spent $200 for 10 ad purchases the CPA would be $200/10 for a total of $20.00 per purchase.
Advertising Cost of Sale (ACoS)
A metric used to measure the performance of Sponsored Products campaigns. ACOS represents the ratio of ad spend to advertised product sales. It is calculated as ad spend divided by attributed sales. ACOS is calculated by dividing the total spend by the total sales generated. Learn more about ACOS.
Return on Ad Spend (ROAS)
ROAS is the total ad sales divided by the total advertising spend.
New-To-Brand Metrics
New-to-brand metrics describe customers purchasing your brand/product for the first time on Amazon over the past year. These metrics give advertisers the tools to estimate the cost of engaging new customers on Amazon and identify the most efficient channels and tactics to achieve their campaign goals.
Campaign Types
Sponsored Products
Cost-per-click ads that promote individual product listings, appearing in shopping results and on product pages. This is the campaign type most Amazon metrics in Optmyzr refer to by default, including ACoS.
Sponsored Brands
Cost-per-click ads that promote your brand and a selection of products, typically appearing as a banner above shopping results with your logo, a custom headline and multiple products.
Sponsored Display
Ads that reach shoppers based on their interests and shopping behaviour, both on and off Amazon. Unlike Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display can target audiences as well as products and categories.
Targeting and Structure
ASIN
Amazon Standard Identification Number — the unique 10-character identifier Amazon assigns to every product in its catalogue. ASINs are how individual products are referenced throughout Optmyzr, including in Rule Engine's Shopping/PMax Products scope.
Targets
Alongside keywords, Amazon campaigns can be set to run against product targets (specific ASINs) and category targets (a whole product category). Optmyzr treats these as separate entities from keywords, so a campaign can have both keyword targets and product/category targets running at the same time.
Portfolio
A group of campaigns in Amazon Ads that can share a budget and date range. Portfolios are Amazon's own grouping, set up in the Amazon Ads console. In Optmyzr, you can group and filter campaigns by their Amazon Portfolio in the Campaign Filter View.
Note: Amazon Portfolios are different from Optmyzr Portfolios, which are groups of ad accounts you create inside Optmyzr for cross-account budgets, alerts, and reporting.
Account Types and Identifiers
Sellers
Sellers sell products directly to Amazon customers. If you manage your products in Seller Central, you're a seller.
Vendors
Vendors sell their items directly to Amazon, which then sells them to customers. If you manage your products in Vendor Central, you're a vendor.
Entity ID
The entity ID is a unique identifier for your advertising console account. To find the unique entity ID for your account, follow the steps below:
Navigate to the Amazon Advertising home page and sign in.
After signing in, click on the Amazon Advertising logo. You will then see the URL in the following format: https://advertising.amazon.com/home?entityId=ENTITYTEST12345AB.
Copy everything to the right of the "=" sign in the URL. This is the entity ID for your account.
