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B13 How we structure your campaigns

One portfolio per product, a fixed set of campaign roles and consistent naming, so anyone can read your account at a glance.

Read this flowchart as text
  1. Portfolio: one per parent / standalone ASIN
  2. Sponsored Products · keywords
  3. Auto · ATM_P_ASIN discovery of new search terms
  4. Broad · BR_ASIN_DATE_KEYWORD wide discovery, negatives applied
  5. Phrase · PH_ASIN_DATE_KEYWORDS mid-funnel testing
  6. Exact · OW_ASIN_DATE_KEYWORDS graduated winners · ranking · control
  7. Sponsored Products · targeting
  8. Product targeting · OP_ASIN_DATE_ASIN competitor + own (defensive) ASINs
  9. Category · ASIN_DATE_CATEGORY category / sub-category placements
  10. Sponsored Brands
  11. Product Collection → Store top-of-search, headline + lifestyle
  12. Brand Video · 16:9 6–45s highest-engagement format
  13. Store Spotlight · ≥3 sub-pages
  14. Sponsored Display
  15. Views / purchase remarketing
  16. Audiences: in-market · lifestyle · AMC custom audiences
  17. Competitor ASIN & category targeting
  18. Sponsored TV
  19. 15/30s video · awareness · shopping-signal audiences
What you get: an account where every campaign has a purpose — discovery, control, defence or brand — and nothing overlaps.
KNOWLEDGE BASE

Guides that use this process.

Amazon PPC

Amazon Auto Campaign Setup: Targeting Groups and Bids

How to configure Amazon auto campaigns by targeting group, what starting bids to use, and how to read the data they produce each week.

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Sponsored Products vs Sponsored Brands vs Sponsored Display

Sponsored Products carries most accounts; Brands and Display earn their place after it. What each ad type does, where it shows and when to add it.

6 min read · Nov 5, 2026
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Amazon PPC for Product Launches: Structure, Budget and Timing

Launch campaigns run a high ACoS on purpose, for a fixed period, on a short list of terms. How to structure them, budget them and when to switch to profit mode.

6 min read · Oct 31, 2026
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Amazon Match Types: Broad, Phrase and Exact, Used Properly

Each match type has a job: broad finds, phrase tests, exact controls. How each matches, what to bid on each, how keywords move between them and what to avoid.

6 min read · Oct 30, 2026
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Amazon Brand Defense Campaigns: Protecting Your Own Listings

Brand defense campaigns keep competitors off your brand searches and your detail pages. How to build them, what to bid and how to tell if they are working.

6 min read · Oct 14, 2026
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Amazon PPC Audit Checklist: 20 Checks Before We Change a Bid

The 20-point audit we run on every Amazon advertising account before touching anything: setup, structure, targeting, bids, budgets and the listings ads land on.

6 min read · Oct 7, 2026
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