Amazon ad spend rises over Cyber 5, but most efficient sales days still ahead
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Amazon ad spend rises over Cyber 5, but most efficient sales days still ahead
On Cyber Monday alone, consumers spent $9.4B via online channels – that's up $1.5B from just last year, according to Adobe, and another record-breaking figure in terms of e-commerce sales. For marketers, the entire five-day stretch known as Cyber 5, but dubbed "Turkey 5" by Amazon, was likely a banner sales weekend, but looking at year-over-year Amazon data, what's clear is that your holiday fortunes are not made or broken on that period alone.
As part of the research my company conducted, it is clear that on a conversion rate and cost-per-conversion basis, some of the best sales days on Amazon come after Cyber Monday. To maximize your total sales, and potentially capture market share from competitors, your advertising budgets and strategy on the site needs to align with this reality.
As seen in the below graphs, which are drawn across a same-set of more than 700 Amazon sellers, ad conversion rates continue to rise from Cyber Monday all the way through the Dec. 22 shipping cutoff. Yet, the average cost-per-conversion declines over the same period.
This is likely due to two contributing factors.
Perhaps most impactfully, many brands budget to spend aggressively during that five-day period and, due to the extremely high volume of consumers on the site, blow through a fixed budget for the season. While those holiday period campaigns may have driven high sales volumes at profitable costs, those same brands now don't have the ability to stay aggressive over the intervening days, substantially tapering down spend and bids through the remainder of the year and missing out on these additional profitable sales.
Secondly, when consumers are shopping