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Advertising workspace

Master/detail view — ASIN list rail on the left, campaign blueprint and performance panels on the right.

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The Advertising workspace is where you build and manage campaign blueprints for each ASIN in your catalog. It uses a master/detail layout: a scrollable ASIN list rail on the left, with the selected ASIN's full campaign workspace loaded on the right.

Layout

The left rail shows all your ASINs with summary data for each: campaign count, active campaign count, and daily budget total. Selecting an ASIN updates the URL to ?asin=<id> and loads that ASIN's workspace on the right. The URL is shareable — a direct link to a specific ASIN's advertising workspace opens it immediately.

The right-side workspace is divided into tabs that cover the full campaign lifecycle for the selected ASIN.

Campaign blueprint

Each ASIN has one campaign blueprint — a structured plan of the campaigns you intend to run for that product. The blueprint is made up of campaign blueprint items, each representing one real (or planned) campaign with these fields:

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
Campaign nametextno

The actual Seller Central campaign name, following the naming convention {Initials} | {Product} | {ASIN} | {Market} | {AdType} | {Targeting}. RankASIN auto-fills this from the seller account's configured company initials, marketplace, and product nickname.

Purposeselectno

One of: ranking, performance, research, shielding, or retargeting. Purpose drives how the campaign is evaluated — ranking campaigns are measured by organic rank improvement; performance campaigns are measured by ACoS.

Ad productselectno

The Amazon ad type: sp (Sponsored Products), sb (Sponsored Brands), sbv (Sponsored Brands Video), sdi (Sponsored Display image), or sdv (Sponsored Display video).

Match typeselectno

The targeting approach: keyword match types (broad, phrase, exact, broad_modified), or product/audience/category/theme targeting. Set to null for auto campaigns that don't require a match type declaration.

Targeting typeselectno

keyword, product, audience, or category. Determines which targeting sub-system in Seller Central this campaign uses.

Bidding strategyselectno

down_only (most campaigns), up_and_down (STPP only), or fixed (brand shielding).

Strategy notestextareano

Freeform notes — bid rationale, targeting logic, optimization history. Use this to record why a campaign is structured the way it is.

Campaign items have a status (not_started, created, active, paused) that tracks the rollout of each planned campaign. You can update status inline in the campaign table — the update is optimistic, persisting immediately in the UI while the server write completes.

Auto-derived performance

Performance metrics — spend, sales, impressions, clicks, orders, ACoS — are derived from your uploaded Search Term Reports, not entered manually. When you upload a Search Term Report CSV at /dashboard/advertising/reports, RankASIN stores the rows as search_term_rows. The campaign-performance-matcher joins each STR row's campaign_name against the campaign names in your blueprint items, rolling up spend and revenue to the campaign level.

This means: keep your blueprint campaign names in sync with the actual Seller Central campaign names, and the performance data flows automatically. The workspace shows which blueprint campaigns matched to STR data and which are unmatched (either not yet created in Seller Central, or named differently than the blueprint).

Insights

The workspace surfaces actionable recommendations derived from your Search Term Report data:

  • Graduate — search terms converting well in auto/broad campaigns that should be promoted to dedicated exact-match campaigns
  • Negate — terms with high spend and no conversions that should be added as negative keywords
  • Scale — campaigns with strong ACoS and headroom to increase budget
  • Optimize — campaigns underperforming their target ACoS
  • Protect — branded terms appearing in non-brand campaigns, indicating competitor conquest

Insights are computed from the uploaded STR data each time the workspace loads for a given ASIN.

Campaign setup lives here

The advertising-specific configuration for an ASIN lives entirely in the Advertising workspace. There is no Advertising tab on the ASIN detail page — that page covers listing, research, keywords, and performance data, but campaign blueprinting is handled here. Navigate to /dashboard/advertising and select your ASIN to build or review its campaign structure.

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