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Understanding the “Purchase” Goal in Smart Campaigns

Lower-funnel DSP campaigns to help you drive new purchases

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Choosing Purchase as your advertising goal is all about driving conversions. These campaigns are designed to target high-intent shoppers who have recently engaged with your products, helping move them from consideration to purchase.

This goal is ideal for:

  • Lower-funnel retargeting

  • Driving higher return on ad spend (ROAS)

  • Converting recent product viewers into paying customers


🛠 What Happens When You Select the Purchase Goal?

When you choose the Purchase goal, you’ll be guided to set up one or more Smart Campaign Strategies. Each strategy represents a unique campaign setup that includes default budgets, targeting logic, and performance KPIs.

You can:

  • Select one or multiple Purchase strategies

  • Launch one or multiple campaigns per strategy

  • Set your own budget or use our recommended defaults

  • Customize campaign names, KPIs, and KPI targets


🎯 Available Purchase Campaign Strategy

Strategy Name

Description

Retargeting Viewers (Default)

Targets shoppers who recently viewed your product detail pages

Each strategy comes with built-in recommendations to help you reach the right audience efficiently.


📊 Smart Defaults for Purchase Campaigns

Field

Default / Recommendation

Minimum Budget

$3,000 (recommended) – Custom values >$1 accepted

KPI

T-ROAS is the default; optionally select ROAS

KPI Target

Default T-ROAS target; custom values accepted

Amazon Order Goal (hidden)

Internally set to Conversions based on KPI

Campaign Start/End

Defaults to 1st and last day of the next calendar month

Est. Daily Spend

Automatically calculated and displayed based on campaign duration


🧩 What’s Included in Each Purchase Campaign

Each Purchase campaign will:

  • Automatically generate three pre-configured line items, each with its own inventory sources to target ad placements:

    • Amazon Owned & Operated

    • Amazon Publisher Direct (APD)

    • Third-Party Exchanges (Open Exchange)

  • Include options to:

    • Clone or add additional line items

    • Customize budgets, frequency caps, bid settings, and more

  • Apply recommended targeting settings, which you can expand to customize


👥 Recommended Audiences for Purchase Campaigns

Strategy Name

Positively Target

Negatively Target

Retargeting Viewers

Viewers of your products (last 90 days, custom)

Past purchasers of those products (last 90 days, custom)


🧠 AMC Strategies & Audience Templates by Goal

In addition to Amazon's pre-built and your custom product audiences, Teikametrics enables you to create and launch campaigns using Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) audience templates. These audiences are accessible in the Audience Creator experience and will be available to add directly to your DSP line items.

Purchase

AMC Audience Query

Description

Add to Cart

Shoppers who added your product to cart but didn’t complete the purchase.

Multiple Views Retargeting

Shoppers who viewed a product 3+ times without converting.

Gift List

Shoppers who added items to a gift list but did not purchase.

Wedding Registry

Shoppers who added items to a wedding registry but did not purchase.

Wish List

Shoppers who added items to a wish list but did not purchase.

Baby Registry

Shoppers who added items to a baby registry but did not purchase.

Product Review Viewers

Shoppers who viewed product reviews but did not purchase.

Progressive Views Retargeting

Shoppers who viewed multiple product pages without converting.


🗓 Timeline, Budget, and Flight Details

  • Your campaign budget and dates define the first flight of your DSP order.

  • Budgets can be increased and/or additional flights added later from the Ads Manager.

  • You'll see an estimated daily spend to help plan pacing.


✅ Next Steps After Purchase Goal Selection

  1. Choose your strategies

  2. Enter budgets, KPIs, and review defaults

  3. Save your selections to preview your generated line items

  4. Review and customize targeting, inventory, and creatives

  5. Submit your campaign with confidence 🎯


📌 Note: You must include at least one line item per campaign to proceed. You can’t delete all line items, but you may edit, duplicate, or remove individual ones to fine-tune your setup.


🎨 Creative Management During Campaign Creation

When you create a new campaign, Teikametrics automatically associates creatives (the actual display ads) with each line item based on the products you selected.

Here’s how it works:

  • Automatic Creative Matching:
    We identify and apply available creatives from your library of creative assets that correspond to the ASINs you selected during campaign setup. This ensures that the products you want to promote are featured in the ads shown to customers.

  • Preview & Edit:
    You can accept the recommended creatives or choose a different one from your creative library.

  • REC Creative Option:
    You can optionally generate a new Responsive E-Commerce (REC) creative for your campaign directly within the workflow. Once submitted, this creative becomes immediately available for use in your line items.

  • Creative Requirements:

    • At least one creative is required for every line item.

    • You can apply a single creative to all line items at once or customize per line item.

    • Creatives with a status of “Not Approved” will not appear in the list of eligible creatives during setup.


⚙️ Default System Settings for Campaigns & Line Items

To simplify the setup experience, we apply a set of non-editable default settings behind the scenes. These values are optimized to streamline campaign delivery and maximize performance without requiring manual input.

🔧 Campaign-Level Defaults

Setting

Default Value

Optimization Strategy

Prioritize spending full budget

Budget Management

Automate budget allocation

Unused Budget Handling

Do not change flight budgets

Budget Cap

Uncapped

Agency Fees

N/A

Conversion Tracking (Products)

ASINs entered during product selection

Off-Amazon Conversions

N/A

Frequency Cap

Uncapped

Frequency Group

N/A

🧱 Line Item-Level Defaults

Setting

Default Value

Media Type

Display

Mobile Environment

Web, App

Inventory – Deals

N/A

Inventory Groups

N/A

Targeting – Mobile OS

All

Targeting – Location

All locations

Targeting – Daypart

All times

IAB Categories

N/A

Domain Exclusions

Set at Advertiser level on Amazon

Viewability

40%+

Language

N/A

Device

All Devices

Orientation

Any

Fold Position

All

Native Position

All

Mobile App

All Mobile Apps

3rd-Party Pre-Bid

None

Twitch Suitability

N/A

Line Item Budget

Automated allocation

Pacing

Even

Fees

Applied

Bidding Priority

Use Order Priority

Bid Modifiers

None

These defaults are applied consistently across all campaigns and line items created using Smart Campaigns, helping you get up and running faster without missing critical setup steps. To make changes on campaigns and line items later, you may do so from the Ads Manager.


Still have questions? Reach out to your CSM, contact us via chat, or check out our DSP Campaign Creation Guide to see this step in action.

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