Amazon Marketing Cloud Missed Opportunities Audiences Tutorial - Amazon Advertising Strategy
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In this video, I show you how to use Amazon Marketing Cloud high value audiences to create missed opportunity audiences for your Amazon advertising campaigns. This is part 3 of my series on AMC audiences, and here I focus specifically on targeting people who showed interest in your products but didn't complete a purchase.
I walk through the Amazon Marketing Cloud interface and show you how to access the missed opportunities tab. You can select different time ranges like last month, last three months, or last six months to build your audiences. The data is organized by month, so if you're looking at early February, January data might not be available yet.
One important thing to understand is that audience size matters. You need at least 500 users to create an audience in Amazon Marketing Cloud. If your last month data shows audiences below 500 users, you can extend the date range to last three months to increase the audience size. However, be careful with longer date ranges because people who added your product to cart three months ago might have already bought from a competitor.
I explain the different missed opportunity audience types you can create: detail page views, subscriptions, wish list additions, add to cart abandoners, and brand searches. The most popular audience type is add to cart abandoners because these are people who showed strong purchase intent but didn't complete the transaction.
For the add to cart audience, you can export it and use it in your Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, or Sponsored Display campaigns. The strategy I recommend is to add this audience to your campaign under bid adjustment settings. You can set a low base bid for general audience, maybe 30 cents if your competitive bid is $1, and then add a 100 to 200% bid adjustment for the cart abandoner audience. This means you would bid 30 cents for general audience and up to 90 cents for people who abandoned your cart.
Another strategy is to create a dedicated campaign exclusively for cart abandoners. Set the minimum bid for general audience and make the campaign focus entirely on this high intent audience. For Sponsored Brands and Sponsored Display, you can even create custom headlines targeting these users.
I also cover detail page view audiences, which are people who visited your product page but didn't buy. This is another high intent audience worth targeting. When creating these audiences, you can choose between exposed and non-exposed users. Exposed means they saw your ad before, non-exposed means they found you through other means.
You have options for audience expansion too. You can create a rule based audience which targets exactly the people who match your criteria, or you can create lookalike audiences with most similar or most broad settings depending on how wide you want to cast your net.
The best part about this Amazon Marketing Cloud feature is that you don't need any SQL knowledge or query editor skills. You just select what you want, hit create audience, wait for it to process, and then add it to your campaigns with the appropriate bid adjustments.
Contents: 0:00 Introduction to Missed Opportunities Audiences 0:33 Understanding Date Range Selection and Audience Size Requirements 1:33 Different Types of Missed Opportunity Audiences 2:33 Creating Add to Cart Abandoner Audiences 3:33 Bid Strategy for Cart Abandoner Audiences 4:33 Detail Page View Audiences and Exposed vs Non-Exposed Options 5:15 Rule Based vs Lookalike Audience Selection
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Frequently asked questions
What types of audiences can you build from the Missed Opportunities section in AMC High Value Audiences?
The Missed Opportunities section provides segments based on different types of purchase intent signals: detail page views (shoppers who visited your product page but did not buy), add-to-cart abandoners (shoppers who added your product to cart without completing the purchase), wish list additions, brand searches, and subscription signals. Add-to-cart abandoners are typically the most actionable because they represent the strongest purchase intent short of an actual transaction.
Why does the date range you select for a Missed Opportunities audience matter and what is the trade-off?
A shorter lookback window (such as last month) gives you the most recently interested shoppers, which is the highest-quality audience because their intent is fresh. However, if that window produces fewer than 500 users, you cannot create an audience from it, and you will need to extend to three or six months to meet the minimum. The risk of using a longer window is that shoppers who added your product to cart three months ago may have already purchased from a competitor, making your retargeting less relevant. Checking your AMC time-to-conversion reports can help you decide whether a longer window is still meaningful for your product category.
What are the two main bid strategies for applying an add-to-cart abandoner audience to a Sponsored Products campaign?
The first approach is to add the audience as a bid adjustment within an existing campaign: set a low base bid for general traffic (for example $0.30 when the competitive rate is $1.00) and apply a 100 to 200% multiplier for the cart abandoner audience, so you bid aggressively for those high-intent users while keeping general traffic costs minimal. The second approach is to create a dedicated campaign exclusively for cart abandoners: set the base bid at the minimum to avoid serving general traffic, and let the campaign function purely as a retargeting vehicle for that specific audience, which also allows you to write customized Sponsored Brands headlines aimed directly at shoppers who previously showed strong interest in your product.
