r/AmazonMerch • u/autistick • 1d ago

PSA: Amazon Ads will yank your design

After getting dinged on royalty rates, I figured I'd give Amazon Ads a whirl. The plan was to spend enough to get past the 15% mark. I put my best selling design in ads. A few days later, the design was removed. This design had been live for years, had plenty of reviews, very low returns. I emailed support and they said it was due to issues with the artwork. I guess when an ASIN gets into ads, it goes through the Ads quality validation algo. No recourse if the AI gods reject it. Be careful what you put in ads folks.

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u/k3rstman1 1d ago

What was on the design? Like was the subject or the quality the problem?

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u/inksaywhat 10h ago

Off the top of my head the Amazon advertisement ToS include banned terms and items and such, usually related to alcohol, firearms, tobacco, things that are deemed obscene, and other categories where advertising has additional regulations or restrictions beyond any standard guidelines.

Try advertising a design with a cigarette in a characters mouth if you want to see, bc online advertising with smoking in it has all kinds of restrictions associated with it, but that’s just one example. Firearms is another. Youth category has additional restrictions for booze and vulgarity and sex and other things that are beyond the standard guidelines for non youth products. There are a ton of guidelines.

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u/k3rstman1 10h ago

yeah but then they just say that design is eligible for advertising, they dont delete it from your merch account

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u/autistick 3h ago

The subject was pretty innocuous. Nothing controversial. They asked me to resubmit it. "artwork issues" they said include:

  • Artwork with typos
  • Images that are blurry or contain low resolution
  • Designs with blurred lines, unclean backgrounds, or watermarks

My design didn't have any of these afaik. Definitely no typos. If I resubmit I lose all the ratings history built over years. There are copy cat designs already on Amazon so a new design from me is unlikely to win.

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u/dittom_ 21h ago

I regularly have designs rejected by Amazon Ads but it never had an influence on my MbA catalogue

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u/EstablishmentFar9501 11m ago

I just had several best selling designs pulled with no explanation whatsoever. Sucks.