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Amazon Marketing Cloud Missed Opportunities Audiences Tutorial - Amazon Advertising Strategy

Published on February 2, 2026

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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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Transcript

Hi guys, Amazon marketing cloud audiences with this highv value audiences solution part three. In this part I'm going to cover how to create audiences of missed opportunities and how you can benefit from them. In my previous sorry first two parts I covered some general overview on how you can use this this tool. It's super effective and super easy and how you can use purchases and how to analyze the data and create some audiences lookalike and different variations of it. Now for this uh part three I'm going to concentrate on missed opportunities and just as a short recap you can see the summary of your performance for the date range that you selected over here. So you can set set it like last month last three months and last six months it's only by month. So we cannot for example now it's February the second and when we select last month it's going to be um still the whole month of December. So probably in next few days the data from January will be available. Uh what you can notice here immediately is that when we selected last month only some of these uh quick audiences are not we are not able to create them simply because the audience size is less than 500. So to overcome that limitation you can if it justifies I mean if the data justifies to do that you can increase that to last three last three months and then immediately you have some additional audiences. Now the selection of date ranges can impact the precision of your audiences pretty significantly simply because if you select previous three months and for example you say okay I want to target people who added my product to cart in previous three months you know and haven't bought you know chances are they already bought your competitor's product most likely if that's the case but you can check that through other MCU reports like time to conversion and then um check if that makes sense or So this is for example let's leave it as last three months because it doesn't make sense for our demonstration here. So between the two tabs you have purchases and then different uh data on the purchases but we want to focus on missed opportunities here. Now you can see here that breakdown of how they call it conversion metrics and how many total users are in each of the buckets and the audience size which is typically the same like total users and audience size. I don't know why they split it like that but anyway here you can select for example detail page you want and since most of these except the subscribe and say sub subscription are more than uh 500 people you can automatically create audience off of those for example wish list so you can create that audience based on people who added your product wish list but still haven't bought now I still need to test what the customer review would be because if it's if it's under mystery opportunities it's a customer review so could could it be that you're targeting people who did a review of your product doesn't make any sense because it's a missed opportunity. So, how could they review your product if they haven't bought it? So, that's I will I I owe you that one. The rest of that is uh pretty self-explanatory. For example, usually people like the add to cart abandoners the most and that's where you can concentrate at the beginning. I would probably select because it's it's um for this account it's a lot of users for for three months of cart abandoners. So I would probably go just last month cart abandoners and do that for example in a few days once the data in January is available and then you can use add to cart and hit create audience immediately you will be presented with a screen to create an audiences of people who um added your product to cart but they didn't buy. So and you can then export that audience and use it in your sponsor products sponsor brands or sponsor display audiences and then add that audience to your campaign under the mid adjustment settings. Furthermore, I covered that in more details. How to add audiences to your campaigns. You can look that up on my YouTube channel. Um, so when what you could potentially do is you could do you could add this audience to your sponsored ad campaign. And then what you can you can maybe uh set a base bid really low base bid for general audience. Know like I don't know if your bid is competitive bid would be $1, then you could say, "Hey, bid I don't know 30 cents for this base bid which is for general audience." and then add um this audience multiplier adjustment for I don't know let's I would start probably with a 100 200% increase. So effectively you would be 50 cents for general audience and you would bid dollar and a half or even more for people who are your cart dependent and then know you would be uh more aggressive uh towards them. Uh or you could probably test that and put a really like minimum bid on for general audience and then make it like a exclusively campaign for add to cart abandoners and then you could add uh if it's a sponsor brand ad sponsor display you can add some certain headline like hey you missed this opportunity it's a it's super cool it's stupid because you haven't b bought or whatever you know um so that's also an option um here even though I've selected add to cart on my previous screen it still offers me to to select even more of these conversion metrics to be the baseline or sorry the basis for the audience but I want to keep it granular. So I want to create add to cardart and on the separate audience I want to create people who did the brand search and then especially interesting detail page view. So people who already visited your um product page but haven't bought. That's super helpful because you know that's an audience who is really interested in your products. Then you can also as all the others you can select if it's if it's going to be people who already were exposed to your ad or nonexposed to your ad know so so for some additional granularity then pro choose your products uh choose your marketplace and your brand and again similar as in previous two parts that I recorded you can select like most similar audience or most broad audience depending on what you want to accomplish and how wide you want to go for for or if it if you want to just target these guys who abandoned the card then yeah you need to select a rule-based audience, set a proper name and proper description because with multiple uh different audiences, you will get lost in what you created. Uh let me know what you think. I think this is super helpful because you don't need any uh SQL knowledge, SQL knowledge, however you call it. You need don't need to go into query editor whatsoever. You just select pinpoint what you want to accomplish, hit create audience, wait for a little bit for it to be available, and then go to your campaigns and play with it, play with the adjustments. Uh, forward this to your team who manages your PPC and let me know if you have any questions in the comments. I'll be glad to answer them. See you tomorrow in the next video. Bye-bye.

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.