Smartly for Amazon DSP

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Beta functionality

This functionality is currently being developed and is expected to change over time.

With Smartly for Amazon DSP you can connect your Smartly account with Amazon DSP combining Amazon advertising with Smartly capabilities. This allows you to create and manage campaigns, traffic ads, monitor and improve performance, and create and analyze creatives.

Smartly for Amazon DSP enables the full workflow for programmatic advertising spanning creative asset creation, media implementation, ad trafficking, pre and in flight optimization and reporting.

Asset creation

Campaign setup

  • Use Amazon DSP for Workspaces with Amazon-specific audience-targeting options to create, manage and publish campaigns directly from Smartly.

Supported media types

  • Streaming TV

  • Online video

  • Display (selected ad types)

Supported campaign objectives and KPIs

  • Awareness with KPIs

    • Reach

    • Frequency

  • Consideration with KPIs

    • Click through rate (CTR)

    • Cost per click (CPC)

    • Cost per video completion (CPVC)

    • Video completion rate (VCR)

    • Cost per detail page view (CPDPV)

    • Detail page view rate (DPVR)

  • Conversion with KPIs

    • Return on ad spend (ROAS)

    • Total ROAS (T-ROAS)

    • Cost per action (CPA)

    • Combined ROAS (C-ROAS)

    • Cost per signup (CPSU)

    • Cost per first app open (CPFAO)

Supported buy types

  • Programmatic guaranteed deals

  • Private auction deals

  • Preferred buys

  • Open auctions

Ad creation and trafficking

Pre-flight measurement and benchmarking

  • Use Creative Predictive Potential to test if your creatives are likely to catch your audience’s attention before the campaign even goes live.

  • Use Reach planner to understand the incremental reach of Amazon Prime before the campaign goes live.

In-flight and post-flight measurement

  • Use Smartly’s Reporting capabilities to see how your campaigns are performing. View your ads’ performance on various channels in one place.

  • Use Brand Pulse to understand the audiences you are reaching with your campaigns in real time.

  • Use Creative Insights to see which of your creatives have performed the best.

Get started with Smartly for Amazon

Connect your account

  1. Connect your Amazon advertiser account.

Start creating campaigns and ads

  1. In the main navigation, click Media > Campaign Workspaces.

  2. Create a Workspace.

  3. Create a campaign, ad sets and ads.

  4. Publish your campaign.

Start trafficking ads to Amazon DSP

  1. Create your campaign in Amazon DSP.

  2. Create a template.

  3. Create a Producer.

  4. Create and assign relevant user segments.

  5. Traffic your ads to Amazon DSP.