Amazon Advertising Stats (2024 Update)

September 18, 2024
By The Badger

Amazon Advertising is always evolving, and that’s especially true in 2024. Most of Ad Badger’s clients are experiencing rising CPC’s. Being able to see averages can be a huge help in determining where you stand.

Amazon PPC mastery is at your fingertips with The Badger’s expertise in crunching numbers and spotting trends.

Curious about how your campaign measures up in the vast Amazon advertising landscape? Discover key metrics like CTR, CPCs, Conversion Rates, ACOS, and more that can skyrocket your campaign’s performance.

Join us in this exciting journey as we unveil insights gleaned from Ad Badger’s extensive data collection. This is your chance to gain an edge and outshine the competition.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this post about Amazon Stats:

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Who is the Average Amazon Seller?

While there are over 9.7 million Amazon Sellers worldwide, in the USA, only 200,000 sellers are doing more than $100,000 in sales.

For all of our metrics listed here, we’re calling out a subset of the thousands of campaigns we have on our system. This data is based on the millions of bids we optimize each day.

Here’s an overview of the typical Amazon Seller’s daily stats:

Note: The month-over-month trend in all of our metrics is largely influenced by the pool size or the total number of users. As Ad Badger grows its user base, this number will reflect the average of all users on our platform.

In the future, we’ll break things out into cohorts, like the average ACOS of companies with over $100k/ year in sales, and so on. This will make it easier to compare yourself to similar companies. In addition, Ad Badger will soon be able to segment metrics by niche.

With that out of the way, let’s jump straight into the first metric: Click Through Rate.

What is Amazon’s Average Click Through Rate (CTR)?

The average CTR on Amazon Advertising is 0.34%.

Being right at or above that is usually a good target.

Average CTR on Amazon

0.34%

What’s CTR, anyway?

A click-through-rate (CTR) is the total number of clicks your ad gets divided by the total number of impressions. A good example for understanding CTR is if you get 1 click on your ad per 100 impressions, then you’ll have a 1% CTR.

How Do I Improve My CTR on Amazon?

A really low CTR on Amazon means buyers aren’t finding your ad compelling enough to click on it based on what they seek.

This can either mean you need to optimize your keyword targeting OR you have quality issues with your listing. Or both!

Listing quality issues that negatively affect your Amazon CTR include:

For a deep dive on improving your Amazon CTR, read our complete guide here.

What is the Average Cost per Click (CPC) on Amazon?

What is CPC?

Cost-per-click (CPC) is the amount you pay when a customer clicks your ad.

Amazon PPC is an auction, so the price you pay is just a penny more than what the next highest bidder is willing to pay for that keyword.

For example, if you bid $3 and the next highest bid was $1.00, then your CPC would be just $1.01 even though the highest bid was $3.

While the highest bidder has the best chance of winning, a lower CPC means a higher ROI. The average CPC on Amazon Ads prior to 2020 was $0.71, but we’ve seen an increase in CPC since 2021.

The current average CPC on Amazon is $0.99 for 2024.

The current average CPC Amazon Ads is $0.8 less than last year at this time. However, the lowest CPC of 2024 was in February at $0.82. July of 2024 saw the highest CPC at $1.14 on average.

What’s the Relationship Between Competition and CPC on Amazon?

CPC is a metric heavily dependent on a few different factors, especially competition level. Greater competition will lead to higher CPCs because you’re bidding against other sellers to win the best placement for your ad in front of searching customers.

Make sure to optimize your campaigns to get the lowest CPC.

Lastly, let’s look at how the average CPC evolves over time. While less stable than CTR, you can usually find it somewhere in the $0.50 to $1 range.

To learn more about Amazon’s rising CPC and how to remedy it, including innovative strategies, check out our free series on YouTube, The PPC Booster series.

Here’s an overview of what to expect in the PPC Booster Series:

What is Amazon’s Average Conversion Rate?

What is conversion rate (CVR?)

Conversion rate on Amazon is the percentage of clicks on your ad that convert into sales.

The average conversion rate on Amazon is 9.96%.

Of course, like all metrics, these averages are widely different based on the niche. This percentage is the most up-to-date number, taken from the Ad Badger App that serves hundreds of different niches.

It’s important to note that more expensive products ($100+) will typically have lower conversion rates as customers like to shop around and compare products before making their final decision to purchase.

Average Amazon PPC Conversion Rate

9.96%

NOTE: the average eCommerce conversion rate for websites other than Amazon is about 1.33%. This means an average Amazon PPC conversion rate of 9.96% speaks volumes about the power ads on Amazon. These audiences are coming in hot at the bottom of the funnel and ready to buy.

Put another way, Amazon sees 7x more conversions than non-Amazon sites. (If you aren’t selling on Amazon yet, maybe you should be.)

Conversion Rates in Context

Although conversion rate is a useful stat on its own, it’s also important to consider the surrounding contextual factors that influence it.

What Influences Amazon CVR?

Larger time frames and sample sizes increase the accuracy of CVR. More data is always better.
Strong and numerous competition lower CVR because customers have more quality options to select from.
Profit is king. No matter how good your CVR is, it doesn't matter if you aren't making any money. Always check to ensure higher CVR pull in enough revenue to offset any expenses.

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How Do I Improve My Amazon Advertising Conversion Rate?

If your Amazon conversion rate is significantly lower than the average, it may be a good indication that your campaign, your listing, or BOTH your campaign & listing need attention

Only seeing a poor conversion rate when looking at a particular keyword or term means that keyword or term isn't very relevant to your ad, so customers aren't buying it when they land on your product.

Example: For a Christmas tree seller, one of your keywords could be "Christmas Tree (broad)." If a customer searches for "Christmas tree stand," your ad may appear for "Christmas Tree" since your keyword is of the broad match-type.

Your ad for your Christmas tree appeared when a customer wanted to find a tree stand. The ad wasn't relevant to what the customer wanted so they likely left your tree listing without buying, lowering your Amazon advertising conversion rate.

A consistently low conversion rate across all keywords or terms may mean it's a good idea to analyze your listing quality for potential issues.

Actionable Steps to Improve Amazon CVR

Step 1 : Improve your product listing to boost organic sales.

Analyze the components of your Amazon listing Take any necessary actions for improvement.

Step 2 : Triple CVR with Amazon Retargeting Ads.

Retargeting gets the attention of shoppers who previously engaged in your product and increases CVR by increasing impressions.

Step 3 : Maximize your Sponsored Brand Ads strategy.

We recommend Single Keyword Ad Groups for boosting your Sponsored Brand Ads.

Now that you’re an Amazon conversion rate expert, let’s move onto one of the most important stats— ACOS.

What is the Average Amazon Advertising Cost of Sales (ACOS)?

What is ACOS?

ACOS is total ad spend divided by total sales. An easy example is if your ACOS is 25%, then you’re spending $0.25 on ads to make $1.00 in sales.

What’s a Good ACOS for Amazon PPC Beginners?

We recommend Amazon PPC beginners stay near the general average, which currently is approximately 29%.

Average ACOS on Amazon

30.20%

How do I Calculate my Target ACOS?

It’s important to understand what your campaigns’ current ACOS is and what your Target ACOS is. Michael, Ad Badger CEO, has a great video on calculating your target ACOS.

Knowing your target ACOS is essential for proper bid optimization and for understanding the performance of an account, campaign, ad group, keyword, term, or ASIN.

Want to learn even more about ACOS?

Check out our guide on How to Tell the Difference
Between a Good and Bad ACOS on Amazon

If you really want to get into the details, our data shows average ACOS generally varies somewhere in the 25%-36% range.

January 2024 had the highest ACOS of the year at 34.59% and March 2024 had the lowest ACOS of the year at 27.98%.

What are Amazon’s Average Daily Impressions?

What is an impression on Amazon?

An impression, sometimes also called a view or an ad view, refers to the moment an ad is viewed by an Amazon customer, regardless of whether or not the ad was clicked.

How many daily impressions should you expect for Amazon PPC?

In 2020, during the pandemic when most everyone was shopping from home during lockdowns, the average number of daily impressions per user per day was 101,265. However, this data changed significantly in 2021. In 2021, Amazon’s Average Daily Impression was anywhere between 40,000 to 60,000.

In 2024, Amazon’s Average Daily Impression was 81,666,333 – yes, that’s in the millions! This is significantly more than before, although still less than peak pandemic shopping.

Average Impressions per Day on Amazon in 2024

81,666,333

As you can see from the chart below, there is some fluctuation in average Amazon impressions per user per day, but the shoppers are still on Amazon.

They are especially visible during the famous Amazon sales, like Prime Day and the winter holiday season.

How do I Increase my Daily Impressions?

Learn to drive both organic and paid traffic if you want to increase the number of impressions your ads get.

It’s best to use paid ads to drive 90% of traffic initially and to rely little on organic traffic. However, as the product matures, he suggests that it’s better and better to transition to nearly 90% organic traffic eventually.

The point is clear: use paid traffic early to increase daily impressions and then move to an organic traffic strategy.

Pro tip: The Market Basket Report is useful for turning paid traffic into organic traffic.

It also never hurts to fine-tune your SEO practices.

What is Amazon’s Average Daily Clicks?

Just like it sounds, daily clicks are the total volume of clicks on your ads per day.

The total average daily clicks on Amazon is around 296.638.

Total Average Clicks per Day on Amazon

296,638

Impressions naturally lead to clicks.

Once your products have a high number of impressions, it’s up to you to optimize your main image, title, and other listing attributes to convince buyers to click on your product in a sea of options.

As you can see here, average daily clicks tends to vary widely over the months. It’s best used with impressions and conversions to inform decisions.

What are Amazon’s Average Daily Conversions?

What is a conversion?

A conversion is when someone clicks your ad and then purchases that product.

Don’t confuse this number with units sold. One conversion alone could result in 10 units sold if the one converting customer buys 10 units. Two conversions could also result in 10 units sold if two converting customers buy 5 units each.

The average amount of conversions on Amazon Ads is 26,82 conversions daily.

Average Conversions per User per Day on Amazon

26,82

What is Amazon’s Average Daily Spend (Cost)?

What is the Average daily spend (cost) on Amazon?

Average daily spend is the amount of money you spend on advertising a day. It can be measured at the account, campaign, ad group, or keyword level.

Are you wondering what your daily budget should be for Amazon PPC? How much should you be spending on your Amazon PPC? Well, the average seller spends about $268,03 USD a day.

Average Spend per User per Day on Amazon

$268,03

How much should you spend on ads?

If you’re brand new to Amazon PPC and you’re launching your first campaign, it can be confusing figuring out where to start with your budget.

The amount you should spend on ads varies from business to business.

Some companies like to break down their marketing budget and set a certain amount of money aside for PPC every month. Some like to adjust their level of spend as they go. We recommend starting off with an automatic sponsored product campaign with a daily budget of ~$30.

This budget, coupled with a competitively sized bid, will help collect the data required to launch more well-optimized campaigns further down the road.

If you’re a beginner, go ahead and save yourself from inevitable disaster by reading our Complete PPC Guide.

Advanced Sellers should focus more on ACOS

For more advanced sellers, the most important focus is achieving target ACOS.

If you’re able to achieve an ACOS that’s consistently profitable or right at break-even, then you’ll ideally want as many impressions, clicks, and sales as possible at that ACOS.

Make sure you never run out of budget if your ACOS is in profit or right at break-even. Sales from the PPC side of your business greatly benefit the organic side of your business.

What is Amazon’s Average Daily Revenue (Sales)?

What is the average daily revenue (sales)?

Revenue, or sales, is the amount of money you receive, including discounts, deductions, returns, and refunds. This is your gross income from which costs are subtracted to determine your net income.

How much daily revenue should you get from Amazon PPC? Our average Ad Badger app user earns $891,6 per day in sales.

Average Revenue per User per Day on Amazon

$891,6

Daily revenue depends on a lot of different factors like impressions, clicks, conversions, price, and more. All the other stats show where you need to improve to ultimately get this metric up. Like we said before, profit is king for sellers and using the Ad Badger App can lead to double or triple growth.

How Ad Badger Increased Woodies’ Revenue by 216%

Woodies was one of the first large accounts on the Ad Badger platform. Once all their Seller Central data was loaded onto Ad Badger, the bid algorithm went to work to cater to their Target ACOS.

The Bid Optimizer worked furiously overnight to cut out wasted spend and lower their ACOS to reach maximum profitability. Negative Keyword rules were set to avoid wasted spend on clicks that didn’t pertain to Woodies’ product.

As you can see, the Badger gets the job done. Read more about the Woodies case study.

Another case study you might find interesting is one we published on behalf of Freshfield Naturals, available here, because we we increased their impressions by over 600%, tripled their clicks, and quadrupled their sales!

Oh, and did we mention that we pulled all this off while lowering their ACOS by 18%?

Frequently Asked Questions

We are constantly on forums discussing Amazon marketing techniques with Amazon sellers.

We see tons of good questions that give insight into Amazon seller’s concerns, so, like any good Amazon PPC tool would do, we made a video about it.

We also filmed a couple FAQ stats videos for The PPC Den Podcast that you might find helpful, including this one from March 2020 and this one about stats from April 2020.

If rapid-fire FAQs are more your jam, then you’ll enjoy this informative Ask Any PPC Question, where Ad Badger’s CEO answers 30 questions in 60 minutes.

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