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Amazon Ads · PPC

Amazon PPC Dayparting: Schedule Bids by the Hour

Amazon PPC dayparting with Amazon's own rules: find the hours that convert in hourly Marketing Stream data, then schedule bid increases for those hours.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Amazon Ads · Reporting

What Is Amazon Marketing Stream? Datasets and Setup

Amazon Marketing Stream v2 delivers Amazon Ads data as Parquet files to your own S3 bucket. Its datasets, setup, the v1 cutoff, and how your AI uses it.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Amazon Ads · PPC

What Is the Amazon Ads API? Access and AI Tools

The Amazon Ads API lets advertisers run sponsored ads, DSP, AMC and reports in code. How access works, what each request needs, and how your AI uses it.

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Thomas Spicer
7 min read
Agents · Architecture

Is the Amazon Ads API Separate From the SP-API?

Yes: the Amazon Ads API is separate from the Selling Partner API, with its own app approval, profiles and endpoints. What each holds, and how to use both.

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Thomas Spicer
7 min read
AMC · Market intelligence

Amazon Organic vs Paid Keywords in One View

Amazon organic vs paid keywords: put Search Query Performance beside AMC paid search-term traffic, one row per query and week, with no ad math leaking.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Vendor Central · Retail Analytics

Amazon Retail Analytics API: ARA to Your Warehouse

Use the Amazon Retail Analytics API to load ARA sales, inventory, traffic, forecast and Net PPM reports into a warehouse that matches Vendor Central.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
AMC · Market intelligence

Search Query Performance and AMC: One Funnel

Search Query Performance and AMC join on search query and week, not shopper: pull SQP, run AMC's search-term queries for that week, join the aggregates.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Agents · Architecture

How to Integrate Amazon Seller Messages API With AI

How to integrate Amazon seller messages API calls: check what an order allows, send permitted messages, request reviews once, route events to a helpdesk.

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Thomas Spicer
6 min read
Amazon Ads · PPC

How to Reduce ACoS on Amazon Without Losing Sales

How to reduce ACoS on Amazon: cut spend on clicks that don't convert, pay less on weak clicks, raise conversion, and set a ROAS goal for the bids.

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Thomas Spicer
5 min read
Amazon Ads · PPC

How to Optimize Amazon Ads: A Weekly Routine

How to optimize Amazon ads every week: act on the search term report, add negative keywords, adjust placement bids, keep budgets in budget, fix listings.

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Thomas Spicer
5 min read
Amazon Ads · PPC

Amazon Advertising Services: How Each Ad Type Works

Amazon advertising services explained: Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Display, Streaming TV and Amazon DSP, which fits which goal, and how to start.

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Thomas Spicer
6 min read
Amazon Ads · PPC

What Is Amazon Ads Agent? Amazon's AI Ad Platform

Amazon Ads Agent is Amazon's renamed ad platform: sponsored ads and DSP in one place, a closed-beta AI chat, and an MCP Server for your own agents.

Kuudo
Thomas Spicer
9 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

How to Prevent Amazon Vendor Chargebacks

Amazon vendor chargebacks follow published clocks and thresholds. Check each purchase order decision against them before you submit, not after the charge.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Seller · Brand

How to Report Counterfeit Products on Amazon

How to report counterfeit products on Amazon: file through Brand Registry as a Rights Owner, verify each ASIN first, and stay out of the test-buy penalty.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
Seller · Listings

Amazon Buy Box Win Rate: What Actually Moves It

Your Amazon Buy Box win rate turns on five Featured Offer factors: price, delivery, free shipping, free returns, seller performance. Reviews don't count.

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Thomas Spicer
6 min read
Agents · Architecture

Amazon Seller Central Claude Plugin: What It Does

The Amazon Seller Central Claude plugin puts your seller data and Amazon's skills in Claude and Quick: what it covers, what's unpublished, how to test it.

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Thomas Spicer
13 min read
Agents · Architecture

Best Claude Skills for Amazon Ads and Operations

Claude Skills for Amazon: 20 public Skills for Ads, AMC, listings, FBA stock, returns and margins, which start without an account, and how to install them.

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Thomas Spicer
13 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Vendor Central vs Seller Central for Hybrid Brands

Vendor Central vs Seller Central: in Vendor Central you sell to Amazon at a cost price it approves; in Seller Central you sell to customers at your price.

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Thomas Spicer
11 min read
Seller · Listings

Amazon Listing Hijack: Four Kinds, Four Remedies

Amazon listing hijack, defined: another seller's offer, a rewritten page, injected copy, or a lost Featured Offer, with the remedy and role for each.

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Thomas Spicer
18 min read
Seller · Listings

Amazon Listing Optimization: What to Fix First

The order for Amazon listing optimization: a 75-character title, main image rules and search terms at less than 250 bytes first, then attributes and copy.

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Thomas Spicer
13 min read
Amazon Ads · Reporting

Amazon Search Query Performance vs. Search Terms

Amazon Search Query Performance reports impressions, clicks, cart adds and purchases per query and ASIN. How it differs from the two search terms reports.

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Thomas Spicer
7 min read
Amazon Ads · Reporting

TACoS vs ACoS: What Each One Actually Measures

ACOS measures ad spend against ad-attributed sales. TACoS measures it against total revenue. Here's the exact formula and what each one drives.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
Seller · FBA

Amazon FBA Reserved Inventory: The 3 Real Reasons

Amazon FBA inventory goes Reserved for one of three reasons. See which clear on their own, which need action, and when a full-ASIN reserve may be a recall.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Vendor Central · Retail Analytics

Amazon Glance Views: Diagnose Flat Vendor Sales

Use Amazon glance views and the ARA Traffic dashboard to investigate flat vendor sales with matched ordered sales, conversion ratios, and availability.

Kuudo
Kuudo
11 min read
Agents · Architecture

Amazon Ads MCP Server: What Connecting Costs

Connecting to Amazon's official Ads MCP Server costs an agent 92,678 tokens before it does anything. Connecting to Kuudo's Amazon Ads MCP costs 388.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
Agents · Architecture

AI-Ready Data Without a Curated Warehouse

Build AI-ready data for agentic analytics: land Amazon data in owned storage, attach context and Skills, and govern workloads with Agent Flow.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Vendor Central · Retail Analytics

Turn ARA Demand Forecasts into a Production Plan

Choose an Amazon Retail Analytics forecast policy, align weekly demand to the production horizon, and net current supply into an approved plan.

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Thomas Spicer
12 min read
Vendor Central · Retail Analytics

Rank ARA Inventory Health by Cost, Not Units

Rank vendor ASINs by unhealthy inventory cost, not units on hand, and read what ARA counts as aged, unhealthy, and out of stock in the Inventory dashboard.

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Thomas Spicer
19 min read
Vendor Central · Retail Analytics

Read the ARA Sales Dashboard Without Mixing Views

Why ARA ordered and shipped revenue disagree by view, how returns restate closed weeks, and how GET_VENDOR_SALES_REPORT reproduces the Sales dashboard.

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Thomas Spicer
12 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Clear A+ Submission Errors Across Your Catalog

Map Vendor Central A+ submission errors to listing, asset, and eligibility issues, then clear them across every affected ASIN before resubmitting.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Patch A+ Content Across Hundreds of ASINs

Preflight Vendor Central A+ documents and ASINs against brand standards and Amazon rules before an avoidable rejection restarts the review clock.

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Thomas Spicer
12 min read
AMC · Advanced

Validate AMC SQL in the Sandbox First

Validate AMC SQL syntax, joins, and output shape in the sandbox before confirming real identifiers and runtime on a short production window.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
AMC · Advanced

Fix AMC SQL Query Performance Before Timeout

Fix slow Amazon Marketing Cloud SQL with early filters, smaller CTEs, safer joins, correct random sampling, and a staged timeout recovery test.

Kuudo
Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Automate Vendor Listing Quality at Catalog Scale

Vendor listing quality stalls on judgment, not mechanics. See how an agent resolves product type schemas and validates Listings Items writes for vendors.

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Thomas Spicer
12 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Fix Catalog Identity Before You Write A+ Content

Vendor Central A+ bounces that name the ASIN are identity failures. Audit the barcode, brand string and product type before any content is written.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
AMC · Advanced

Your First AMC Queries: Tables, Filters, Dates

Every AMC query starts with four decisions: which table, which campaign identifier, which ad product type, and which date range. Here is how to make them.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
AMC · Advanced

AMC SQL: Where It Stops Behaving Like SQL

AMC SQL rejects SELECT *, ORDER BY and LIMIT, and drops rows describing fewer than 100 users. Here is what the agent checks before writing one.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Amazon Ads · Reporting

Launch a DSP Campaign Without Half-Built Entities

Create an Amazon DSP Performance+ or Brand+ campaign paused, read back every create, then activate campaign first. Empty tactics often mean a KPI mismatch.

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Thomas Spicer
13 min read
Agents · Decision rules

Amazon ACoS Formula: Use the Right Data

Calculate Amazon ACoS from ad spend and attributed ad sales, then block the formula when a report, like Search Query Performance, lacks ad data.

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Thomas Spicer
12 min read
Seller · FBA

Auditing FBA Reimbursements: What Amazon Owes You

An FBA reimbursement audit sorts each lost or damaged unit into one of four claim types, checks its window and value, and lists what you can still claim.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Vendor Central · Retail Analytics

ARA Glossary: Sourceable Product OOS, ROOS, Glance

Definitions for the ARA dashboard metrics vendors search for: Sourceable Product OOS, ROOS versus Rep OOS, glance views and conversion, cited to Amazon.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Seller · Listings

Listing Suppression Diagnosis: Stranded or Buyable

Use live listing status, the suppression reason report, and FBA evidence to diagnose a suppressed or silent ASIN before you apply the wrong fix.

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Thomas Spicer
7 min read
Agents · Decision rules

The Agent Bidding Rulebook That Prevents Bid Thrash

A bid should move only when sufficiency, an ACoS deadband, and a daily clamp all agree. The bounded rulebook an agent runs, with the thresholds.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Seller · Listings

Recover the Featured Offer Without Guessing

No seller eligibility gate for the Featured Offer since September 2026. Read PRICING_HEALTH, stock and shipping, then competition, before you reprice.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
Seller · FBA

Amazon FBA Inventory Management: Health and Fees

Build an Amazon FBA inventory workflow around capacity, IPI, monthly storage, and aged inventory instead of treating inventory health as one score.

Kuudo
Thomas Spicer
11 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Find ASIN Margin Leakage with Net PPM

Find which Vendor Central ASINs are dragging Net PPM down by ranking rate deterioration, then separating cost, funding, and discount pressure.

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Thomas Spicer
12 min read
Seller · Brand

Brand Registry: Fix 'Trademark Already Enrolled'

Fix Brand Registry's 'trademark is already enrolled' error: ask the brand's Administrator to add you, or continue to apply and share your contact info.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Vendor Central · Operations

Dispute a PO On-Time Accuracy Chargeback

Dispute an Amazon Vendor Central purchase order (PO) on-time accuracy chargeback with the right evidence, route, letter, and 30-day deadline.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
AMC · Measurement

Measure Off-Amazon Conversions in AMC

Measure web, app, store, and offline conversions in Amazon Marketing Cloud with Events Manager signals and a grounded total-impact SQL workflow.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Seller · Listings

Rebuild Your Listing Images From Your Own Photos

Seed new Amazon listing images from your own photos, grade each against Amazon's image rules, and approve before anything publishes, grounded by Atlas.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
Seller · Listings

Amazon FBM Order Reports vs the All Orders Report

Which Amazon FBM order report to request: the restricted shipping report or Seller Central file to fulfill, the All Orders reports to track and reconcile.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
AMC · Advanced

Find Your Optimal DSP Frequency Cap in AMC

Find your Amazon DSP frequency cap in AMC: bucket users by daily impressions, then cap at the last bucket where cumulative return outgrows cumulative cost.

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Thomas Spicer
11 min read
AMC · Measurement

Map AMC Paths Across DSP and Sponsored Ads

Use AMC Campaign Groups to map DSP and sponsored ads paths into Sankey-ready source-to-destination rows you can chart without reshaping them.

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Thomas Spicer
11 min read
Seller · Listings

Preview Listing Patches Before They Go Live

An agent on Kuudo audits a live Amazon listing, previews the fix with patchListingsItem in VALIDATION_PREVIEW mode, and submits it only after you confirm.

Kuudo
Thomas Spicer
10 min read
AMC · Measurement

Count New-to-Brand Customers in AMC

Count new-to-brand customers in Amazon Marketing Cloud with the conversion-time table, without confusing users, purchases, or attribution drift.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
AMC · Measurement

Sponsored Ads x DSP Overlap: The 4-Way AMC Analysis

Measure Sponsored Ads and DSP overlap in Amazon Marketing Cloud with aligned exposure groups, attribution timing, and campaign scope for a defensible read.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
AMC · Advanced

Choose the Right AMC Attribution Source

Choose the right Amazon Marketing Cloud attribution source before custom modeling, audience building, or reconciling results with standard reports.

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Thomas Spicer
13 min read
AMC · Audiences

Evaluate Prime Day AMC Lookalikes

Evaluate a Prime Day AMC lookalike against last year's rule-based audience using new-to-brand share, incremental reach, and cost per acquisition.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
AMC · Advanced

Segment AMC Customers by CLTV

Build AMC CLTV segments with the four-segment taxonomy, the correct audience table variant, and a cohort migration diagnostic you can re-run.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
AMC · Audiences

Build High-Value AMC Audience Seeds

Build high-value AMC audience seeds with the right table variant, a seed-size buffer, and the lookalike activation checks that keep them usable.

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Thomas Spicer
11 min read
AMC · Audiences

Build an AMC Lapsed-Customer Audience

Build a lapsed-loyalist AMC audience with EXTEND_TIME_WINDOW, non-ad-exposed filters, and the activation-size checks DSP needs before launch.

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Thomas Spicer
9 min read
AMC · Audiences

Build Prime Day AMC Lookalikes

Build a Prime Day AMC lookalike audience with seed SQL, sizing checks, and the 500 to 500,000 user window Amazon requires before activation.

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Thomas Spicer
10 min read
AMC · Audiences

Build an AMC Cart-Abandoner Audience

Build a cart-abandoner audience in AMC with the right table variant, a seed-size check, and the DSP activation timing that avoids a stale segment.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
AMC · Measurement

Measure Subscribe & Save Lift in AMC

Measure Subscribe & Save lift in AMC: compare subscriber and non-subscriber spend in conversions_all with repeatSnSOrder, over at least three months.

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Thomas Spicer
8 min read
AMC · Advanced

Turn AMC Workflows into Agent Skills

Package repeatable AMC analysis into agent Skills with Atlas retrieval, sufficiency checks, human approval, and run logging already built in.

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Thomas Spicer
4 min read
AMC · Audiences

Human Approval for AMC Activation

Gate AMC audience activation behind human approval: size the seed, read the exact create request, then submit. 2,000-record floor; up to 48 hours in DSP.

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Thomas Spicer
11 min read
Agents · Architecture

Everyone in Your Category Has the Same AI Now

Every seller has the same AI now. Your edge is the operator knowledge it lacks: the bid rules, playbooks and prompts you hand to other tools' apps.

Kuudo
Thomas Spicer
11 min read