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Advertising

Ad spend that compounds. Not a tax that scales.

Sponsored Products, Brands, Display, and DSP managed for profit — not vanity ACoS. Flat fee, never a percentage of your ad spend. Built by the team that earned Amazon's 2023 Challenger Award.

$10M+
Ad spend managed
35%
Avg ACoS reduction
10.4×
Best-in-class ROAS
Campaign performance · 90 daysLive
Ad sales
$487K
↑ 142%
ACoS
14.2%
↓ 18.1pt
ROAS
7.0×
↑ from 3.1×
TACoS
8.4%
↓ 4.2pt
Amazon Ads verified partner
Challenger Winner 2023 AMER — Amazon Ads Partner Awards
2023 Amazon Ads Challenger Award
Trustpilot 4.6 out of 5
Why advertising is the leakiest spend on Amazon

Most brands aren't bad at advertising. They're being charged to learn it.

Amazon's ad platform is built to extract budget from operators who don't know what they're doing — and from agencies who profit when you spend more.

High spend, low return

Costs go up. Sales don't. Without a strategy tied to margin, ad budget compounds against you instead of for you — and most agencies are paid more when that happens.

Targeting is a maze

Sponsored Products, Brands, Display, Video, DSP. Match types, audiences, retargeting, brand defense. Every brand has 50 places to put a dollar — and only a few of them work for your specific catalog.

Set-and-forget kills ROAS

Amazon's ad ecosystem rewards constant testing — keywords, bids, creative, dayparting. Most internal teams can't keep up alongside their other work, and freelance PPC managers don't have time to.

What we run

A custom strategy for each ad type. Not one playbook for all.

Each ad type serves a different role in the funnel. We build distinct strategies — then sequence them so they reinforce each other.

Sponsored
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SP — Sponsored Products

Capture intent.

Bottom of funnel · Direct response

The workhorse. We use Sponsored Products to capture buyers actively searching your category — driving sales today and feeding rank for organic tomorrow.

Keyword harvesting and exact-match laddering
Auto-to-manual campaign migration
Negative keyword pruning at the SKU level
Bid adjustments by placement and dayparting
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SB — Sponsored Brands

Own the shelf.

Top of funnel · Brand defense

Custom banners, video, and Store spotlight ads that defend your branded search terms and convert competitor intent at the top of search results.

Branded keyword defense and competitor conquest
Sponsored Brands Video with custom creative
Store spotlight ads tied to seasonal campaigns
Headline copy A/B testing for CTR lift
Viewed · 2 days ago
Back on screen
SD — Sponsored Display

Re-engage and retarget.

Mid-funnel · Audience retargeting

On-Amazon and off-Amazon retargeting that brings back shoppers who viewed but didn't convert — and reaches lookalikes of your existing buyers.

Views remarketing with custom creative
Purchases remarketing for replenishment categories
Audience and product-targeting layered campaigns
Off-Amazon display for upper-funnel reach
Full-funnel reach · 30 days
Awareness2.4M
Consideration380K
Purchase41K
DSP & Off-Amazon

Full-funnel reach.

Upper funnel · Programmatic

Amazon DSP for clients with the budget for it, plus off-Amazon traffic that feeds back to your storefront — the same full-funnel architecture that earned the 2023 Challenger Award.

DSP audience strategy and management
Off-Amazon traffic routed to your storefront
Sequencing ad types so they reinforce each other
Budget gates — DSP only when the math works

How a $5K ad spend turned into $107K — and a 2023 Amazon Challenger Award.

KOBO came to us with a lean budget, a tight deadline, and a candle line that wasn't getting visibility. We rebuilt the listings, launched a custom Store, then sequenced Sponsored Products into Sponsored Brands. Amazon recognized the result as the best Challenger work in the Americas.

Read the full case study
$5,098
Ad spend · 90-day campaign
$107K
Sales from ads alone · 21.0× ROAS
11.9%
ACoS · category avg ~32%
4.5%
TACoS · including organic
The Lab 916 team operating Amazon ad accounts in the lab
AI in the lab

Every bid decision is AI-assisted. Every strategy call is human.

We run AI across the advertising work: anomaly detection on spend and conversion data, search-term pattern mining at a scale no human can read, creative variants worth testing, and reporting drafts that senior strategists turn into decisions.

The brands winning on Amazon right now aren't avoiding AI. They're building it into the operating system. Ours is already built in, and every ad account we run benefits by default.

"AI isn't the work. AI is what makes us 10x at the work."
Your first 90 days

We don't set and forget. We tune weekly.

Every account runs the same four-stage cycle. The compounding effect over 6–12 months is where most of our ACoS reduction comes from.

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Week 1

Foundation audit

Full account teardown, wasted spend identified
Structural issues mapped
Baselines set against category competitors
Kickoff with your strategist
Week 2

Campaign rebuild

Clean architecture — each campaign owns one job
Auto/research, manual exact, brand defense
Competitor conquest structure
Migration without losing rank
Week 3 - 4

Optimization cycle begins

Weekly bid and keyword optimization
Daily monitoring on flagged campaigns
Keyword promotion and pruning
First A/B tests on creative and copy
Days 30–90

Compounding

Meaningful ACoS reduction typically lands here
Monthly strategic review tied to your P&L
Dayparting and placement refinement
Larger gains compound in months 4–9

Conclusions tied to your P&L — not 40-slide vanity reports.

The pricing problem

Why we don't charge a percentage of your ad spend.

The standard agency pricing model makes your agency richer when your ads get less efficient. We don't run that way. Here's how the alternatives stack up.

Lab 916 BEST FIT
% -of-spend agency
In-house / freelance
Pricing
Flat monthly fee — same fee at $10K or $500K spend
Our incentive: make every dollar work harder
10–15% of ad spend, scaling indefinitely
$50K spend = $7,500/mo. $200K = $30,000/mo
A PPC hire + tools
One person covering what a senior pod does
Incentive
We win when you spend smarter
Efficiency grows, fee doesn't
Paid more when you spend more
Even when it doesn't make you more money
Aligned, but capacity-limited
Optimization queues behind everything else
Optimization cadence
Weekly tuning, daily anomaly monitoring
Bids, keywords, placements, dayparting
Monthly check-ins, templated changes
Set-and-forget kills ROAS
When there's time
Amazon rewards the team that tunes weekly
Reporting
Real-time dashboard + monthly P&L-tied review
What we changed, why, what it cost
40-slide vanity reports
ROAS without the profit context
Whatever gets built internally
Often raw Seller Central exports
Flexibility
30-day rolling. We earn renewal monthly
No multi-year traps
6–12 month minimums + auto-renewal
Hard to exit if it's not working
Hiring and unwinding are slow
Wrong hire costs two quarters

Lab 916 has beat out every other Amazon agency I've worked with in the past 10 years. They're really smart — strategy, technical issues, web marketing. We consider them part of our team.

Anthony Qaiyum
Anthony Qaiyum
President · Merz Apothecary / Smallflower · Chicago · client since 2018
Before you book

Free Amazon audit. 24-hour turnaround.

A written diagnosis of your account across all six drivers. No pitch deck, no obligation — just the read of what's leaking, what's missing, and what we'd do first.

Account health diagnosis across all six drivers
Listing performance review — suppressions, conversion, keyword coverage
Ad efficiency audit — ACoS, TACoS, waste vs. opportunity
FBA & inventory health snapshot
Written report delivered in 24 hours
30-minute walkthrough call with a senior strategist
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