Insights and planning
Media planning
Build an insights-driven strategy to increase reach, performance, and sales
Amazon Ads Media Planning Suite helps advertisers reach and convert audiences across the customer journey using machine learning and tools that connect between channels. Advertisers can leverage first- and third-party insights to develop a strategy for products wherever they spend time.
A strategic blueprint to set expectations
Media planning acts as a map for how to effectively reach and engage audiences through relevant channels. This plan helps answer your campaign’s who, what, where, when, how, and why questions.
Customer-centric approach
Amazon Ads media planning bases all decisions around the customer to create a plan that is effective, while never losing sight of the core audience.
Context, with concept
Media planning involves a deep understanding of the target audience’s media consumption habits, preferences, and behaviors, along with a keen sense of awareness of the ever-evolving media landscape.
Featured solutions
Ads planner
Identify new opportunities and strategize for growth with ads planner, a comprehensive tool for planning and optimizing investments in Amazon DSP and sponsored ads. Ads planner combines insights and science-driven recommendations to empower advertisers to create the optimal mix of audiences, ad products, and formats across Amazon Ads to achieve objectives.
Channel planning
Amazon Ads channel planner enables advertisers to develop detailed media plans using Amazon’s unique first- and third-party insights. Use channel planner to view total reach and frequency for channel-specific investments, and measure incremental impact compared to Linear TV. Marketers are able to capture the details of their channel plans using customizable inputs while ensuring consistency of goals across various Amazon Ads products.
Application Programming Interface (APIs)
Through APIs, advertisers are able to curate the right channels and tailor their messaging strategy, while seamlessly integrating their plan into agency workflows. Tech specialists can automate tedious tasks and understand how to optimize their ad budgets.
FAQs
All self-service and managed-service advertisers with a manager account can access the ads planner from the "Insights and Planning" menu on Amazon DSP and the advertising console. Contact your Amazon Ads account executive to learn more.
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All self-service and managed-service advertisers can access the channel planner from the "Insights and Planning" menu on Amazon DSP. Contact your Amazon Ads account executive to learn more.
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Media planning is the process advertisers undergo before buying and launching ads to gauge effectiveness and maximize ROI (return on investment). It is a critical first step in any ad campaign. The tangible outcome of the media planning process is a media plan document to guide an ad campaign.
Media planning is important because it helps set a parameter for what ad placements might work best for your brand and where to best place those advertisements.
Media buying is what happens after your media plan is complete—they work hand in hand. Media planning sets the parameters for the media buying. Media buying involves evaluating all media advertising options within your budget parameters in order to determine which audiences, ad types, and combination of media channels will help deliver the best possible campaign results, then purchasing those ads.
Media buying is important because strategically purchased media can impact a campaign’s success. It’s not enough to have compelling copy and visuals—ads must be placed in the right locations and at the right times and frequencies, so that the right audiences see the ad.
1 Kantar, “Media Multiplier”
2 Nielsen, “The Case for Custom Media Planning”