The Amazon Accelerate 2022 conference was filled with new announcements and provided opportunities for sellers and Amazonians to connect.
Located right in Amazon’s backyard, the Media.Monks team attended the conference and came away with some key takeaways from the two-day event.
It’s no secret that Amazon continuously innovates to improve the shopping experience for sellers and shoppers alike. Still, the company recognized that merchants (otherwise known as sellers, brands, or retailers on the Amazon platform) are looking for ways to broaden their reach beyond the Amazon platform. Amazon has historically been reluctant to send shoppers anywhere besides its platform but has recognized the need for further growth and success.
Read on to learn more about the new expansions announced at Amazon Accelerate 2022.
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“Amazon Accelerate highlighted some exciting new releases like Amazon Marketing Stream and Buy with Prime. The testimonies from the panelists of brands demonstrated how these tools solved some of their pain points and the results that were driven. Always impactful to hear real-life use cases from brands themselves.”
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Jackie Andreetta
Associate Director of Advertising @ Media.Monks
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“Tailored Audiences is super exciting new release that will offer clients the ability to tap into customer review insights and connect with customer “audience” segments. This tool will harness powerful insights for both content and PDP integrity as well as product development. Also, lots of new innovation within the 3PL space demonstrates more opportunities for sellers to advance their business through competitive advantage within supply chain and fulfillment.”
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Heather Geurkink
Senior Director, Strategy & Ops @ Media.Monks
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Manage Your Experiments allows sellers to run A/B Tests on individual product listing pages, comparing two versions of content against one another to identify the best performing version. Learn more about A/B Testing on Amazon here.
So what’s new?
In October 2022, Sellers will be able to utilize new capabilities for A/B testing to optimize product listings – including the ability to test bullet points and descriptions, which was not an option before.
Another addition to testing capabilities is the “experiment to significance” option, which allows Amazon to determine when the campaign ends (after accumulating statistically significant data). Rather than analyzing results from a specific timeframe, the “experiment to significance” option focuses on consumer interaction.
A new capability within the Manage Your Customer Engagement tool was added to allow Amazon Sellers to increase their email marketing reach and build stronger relationships with shoppers.
Using the new “Tailored Audiences” tool, which is currently in beta but will be available to eligible sellers come 2023, Sellers can proactively send email marketing campaigns to shoppers to increase brand awareness, customer loyalty, and overall engagement.
Previously, shoppers had to follow the Brand Store to receive email campaigns from the brand. With the new additions, brands can now target three different audience types:
1️⃣ Repeat customers
2️⃣ Recent customers
3️⃣ High-spend customers
Put simply, when a shopper purchases on Amazon, they are automatically added to the Seller’s email list and categorized appropriately. This update will help Sellers build deeper relationships with repeat shoppers earlier, maintain current relationships, and potentially increase overall sales.
Want to learn more about Tailored Audiences? Check out Amazon’s blog.
Other Manage Your Customer Engagement updates:
➡ Since sellers on Amazon have expressed difficulty interpreting experiment results, Amazon rolled out a new feature that sends notifications during the MYE process if the new content versions do not lead to meaningful results.
➡ Sellers can authorize Seller Central to auto publish winning content to product detail pages if it is at least 66% better in November 2022
In April 2022, Amazon announced a new way for brands to grow their DTC store through its Buy with Prime (BwP) program. This invite-only program is a way for brands to connect with their off Amazon audiences and provide them with Prime benefits.
So what’s new?
Amazon amplified this program by adding a new Buy with Prime page within the Brand Store to which Sellers can drive shoppers through Sponsored Brand ads. With the ability to customize the page, shoppers can preview products and complete their purchases on the brand’s DTC store.
Additionally, Amazon has offered to invest in co-branded BwP Facebook and Instagram ads with approved Sellers. Though this is an invitation-only beta opportunity, Amazon’s decision to fund and manage these ads shows the value and impact they believe BwP can have for Sellers.
Sellers can utilize a new BwP badge in product listings to show they offer Prime benefits on their DTC store, further enticing shoppers to purchase from the independently run DTC site.
Dive into the new Buy with Prime additions here.
A new upgrade to the standard content management system (CMS), available to all brands worldwide, now supports larger modules on product pages. Modules include video, interactive features, image carousels, and Q&A.
While Amazon Marketing Stream was introduced as a beta program a few months ago, it wasn’t until now that this push-based marketing and metrics system can share data visualizations to improve a brand’s overall business performance. The provided heatmaps, callouts stack ranking, and more can be utilized to further optimize advertising copy; leading to sustainable growth on the Amazon platform.
🚨 Interested in how we help our clients utilize the Amazon Marketing Stream for long-term growth and success on the Amazon platform? Reach out here!
Why work with us?
Your brand will have a custom-built Amazon Marketing Stream dashboard that our team can utilize to access accurate data to implement intraday bidding strategies – further dialing our focus in on driving higher campaign efficiencies (i.e., ROAS, conversion rate, etc.). While this is something only our team can access, we’ll be sure to share findings with you to ensure we’re all on the same page.
A few notable updates from Amazon Accelerate that improves the experience for Amazon Sellers include:
It’s no surprise that Amazon strives to provide opportunities for sellers to grow their business, which is why they launched the Marketplace Product Guidance for selling internationally. Recently enhanced to provide selection recommendations by identifying high-demand products can increase the likelihood of success globally, with automated pricing across all Amazon stores.
The “List Once, Sell Globally” feature allows sellers to bulk upload products for global selling –
here’s how it works: ⤵
Behind the scenes:
Amazon will purchase your inventory and ship the products to the appropriate fulfillment centers. On the shopper’s end, products will still be listed as “shipped from and sold by Amazon.” With this, Sellers can leverage local fees rather than the cross-border remote fees.
We can expect new listing language choices and additional global management tools to apply fixes across all marketplaces.
Two new updates in the local selling category are BOPIS and Amazon Today.
Amazon announced the US launch of Veeqo, an inventory/shipping tool available to sellers at no cost. This multi-channel shipping software was built to help cut shipping costs while increasing the speed of fulfilling customer orders. Sellers can connect their sales channels (i.e., Amazon, eBay, Etsy, and Shopify) and access discounted shipping rates on UPS, USPS, DHL, and FedEx.
Read the official release here.
Two new updates to improve the steps Amazon sellers must take to transfer their funds from Amazon into the sellers’ bank account.
The eCommerce space has been rapidly growing and Amazon continues to lead the way with its commitment to improving both the seller and buyer’s shopping experience. In fact, Amazon went beyond providing better experiences for Sellers as the new tools can help to increase customer lifetime value.
TLDR;
There was a lot to unpack at Amazon Accelerate 2022, but our team is eager to explore these new rollouts with you! Let’s take your Amazon strategy to the next level 🚀
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