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Amazon PPCWalmart AdsPrime DayRetail MediaDeal StrategySeasonal

Prime Day vs. Walmart Deals (June 22–28): Which Products Win on Which Platform

Not every product belongs on both platforms during the summer sale season. Here's a category-by-category breakdown of where to concentrate your deal strategy — and why the platforms attract different buyers.

June 19, 2026·9 min readRead →
Amazon PPCPrime DaySponsored ProductsBid StrategySeasonal

Prime Day Bid Strategy: How to Manage Campaigns When You Have a Deal — and When You Don't

Bidding during Prime Day requires a completely different playbook depending on whether your product has a deal badge. Here's how to manage the lead-up, event day, and the hours in between for both scenarios.

June 15, 2026·8 min readRead →
Amazon DSPAudience TargetingFirst-Party DataProgrammatic

Amazon DSP Audiences: First-Party Data vs. Behavioral Segments — Which Actually Converts

Amazon DSP gives you access to both Amazon's behavioral segments and your own first-party audience lists. Here's how they work differently — and when to use each.

June 2, 2026·8 min readRead →
Amazon PPCSponsored BrandsVideo AdsCreative Strategy

Amazon Sponsored Brands Video: The Underused Format That Punches Above Its Weight

Sponsored Brands Video has some of the lowest competition and highest click-through rates of any Amazon ad format. Here's how to use it correctly.

June 1, 2026·7 min readRead →
Keyword StrategyPPC OptimizationAutomationAmazon AdsGoogle AdsPacvueSkai

Find It, Cut It, Optimize It, Automate It: The Keyword Workflow That Compounds

Keyword strategy is four jobs, not one. Here's how each phase works — and how Pacvue and Skai automate the parts no human can keep up with manually.

May 31, 2026·7 min readRead →
Google AdsPerformance MaxPPC Strategy

Google Ads Performance Max: What You Give Up When You Run It

Performance Max promises full-funnel reach from one campaign. What it doesn't advertise is what you lose in control, visibility, and strategic leverage.

May 28, 2026·8 min readRead →
Amazon AdsAI ToolsMCPAutomationPPC Strategy

How to Set Up MCP for Amazon Ads — And 5x What You Get Done in a Day

MCP lets Claude read your Amazon Ads account directly — no more copy-pasting search term reports into chat windows. Here's the exact setup and the use cases that pay off immediately.

May 26, 2026·8 min readRead →
Google AdsAI ToolsMCPAutomationPPC Strategy

How to Set Up MCP for Google Ads — Stop Spending Half Your Day on Reports

MCP connects Claude directly to your Google Ads account — no CSV exports, no tab-switching, no copy-paste. Here's the setup guide and the five use cases that immediately change how you work.

May 26, 2026·8 min readRead →
Amazon PPCACoSTACoSSponsored ProductsStrategy

Amazon ACoS vs. TACoS: Which One Should You Actually Optimize?

ACoS measures ad efficiency. TACoS measures advertising impact on your total business. Here's when each metric is the right one to manage — and when optimizing ACoS is actively hurting you.

May 25, 2026·7 min readRead →
AttributionGoogle AdsAmazon DSPDisplay AdvertisingROAS

Click Attribution vs. View Attribution: Why Search and Display Don't Speak the Same Language

CPC search and CPM display measure return in completely different ways. If you don't know which attribution model is running, you don't know your real ROAS — and your budget decisions are built on a flawed comparison.

May 25, 2026·7 min readRead →
PPC StrategyBudget AllocationGoogle AdsAmazon AdvertisingRetail Media

Don't Gamble Your Short-Term Revenue on Upper Funnel Tactics

When you need revenue now, redirecting category search budget to display is not a strategy — it's a hope. Here's why lower funnel non-brand search does the heavy lifting, and why that's not the same as pouring money into brand terms.

May 25, 2026·8 min readRead →
Amazon DSPAMCSponsored AdsRetail Media

Add-to-Cart Without Purchase: The AMC Audience You Should Already Be Using

ATC without purchase is one of the highest-intent signals available in Amazon Marketing Cloud. Here is how to deploy it correctly across DSP and Sponsored Ads — and the negation logic most advertisers skip.

May 20, 2026·7 min readRead →
Google AdsQuality ScorePPC Strategy

Google Ads Quality Score: What Actually Moves It (And What Doesn't)

Quality Score affects your CPCs, your ad rank, and ultimately your cost per conversion. Here's what actually drives it — and the common fixes that don't work.

May 20, 2026·8 min readRead →
Amazon AdvertisingPrime DayRetail MediaConsumer Spending

Prime Day Prep: Inventory, Ranking, Velocity, and Content Readiness

Prime Day performance is decided weeks before the event. Here's the preparation checklist — inventory positioning, keyword rank building, velocity strategy, and content readiness — that separates winners from wishful thinkers.

May 14, 2026·7 min readRead →
Amazon DSPRetail MediaAnalytics

Field Log: The Missing Link Between DSP Spend and Revenue

When DSP impressions climb but revenue does not follow, the problem is not performance. A regression-based framework for connecting display spend to real revenue.

May 13, 2026·8 min readRead →
Google AdsSearch TermsPPC Strategy

Why Your Search Term Report Is Lying to You

The search term report is the most misread report in Google Ads. Here's what it's actually telling you — and what it's hiding.

May 7, 2026·7 min readRead →
Amazon PPCMatch TypesSponsored Products

Amazon PPC Match Types Explained (And Why Most Sellers Use Them Wrong)

Broad, phrase, and exact match on Amazon work differently than Google. Here's the breakdown — and the campaign structure that actually works.

April 30, 2026·7 min readRead →