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Amazon’s Reporting API v1 can now return nonfatal warnings with completed reports. The report succeeds and its data remains valid, while a warning identifies a field and codes describing a condition that may affect values.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s Geographic Insights and Activation compares brand and category penetration across nine markets without requiring an Amazon Marketing Cloud setup.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s redesigned Ads Data Manager separates sources, datasets and destinations while adding diagnostics, integrations and no-code tag configuration.
Amazon Ads
Amazon says its AMC Expert Tool converts natural-language requests into Amazon Marketing Cloud SQL in a US closed beta, with wider availability planned for early 2027.
Amazon Ads
Amazon says Marketing Stream v2 and Reporting API v1 became generally available worldwide on 30 September, expanding frequent and cross-account reporting.
Industry
Juozas Kaziukėnas reports that Meta’s Muse and Instinct can build multi-item carts from one request, but calls the feature experimental and presently unusable.
Amazon Ads
Amazon has added in-banner video, multi-image carousels and Alexa for Shopping prompts to Responsive eCommerce Creative, with availability varying by feature.
Amazon Ads
Amazon DSP’s 15-second Assets Based Creative videos can autoplay full screen and muted on Alexa+ Echo Show home screens in the US, Germany and UK.
Amazon Ads
Amazon has placed tools that generate display ads and video from product assets inside the Ads Agent conversation, which remains an expanded closed beta.
Amazon Ads
Amazon has renamed its buying platform Amazon Ads Agent, combining former Ads Console and DSP naming while its conversational assistant remains closed beta.
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Amazon says US brands will be able to supply product knowledge for Alexa for Shopping conversations triggered by Sponsored Brands prompts from January 2027.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s DVA+ combines display, video, audio and streaming TV, with US open beta expected in late October and wider availability targeted for Q1 2027.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s US open beta combines sponsored ads, display, video and streaming TV in one campaign with products, budget and optional ROAS threshold as inputs.
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Amazon’s MCP Server Lite offers core tools that discover and invoke further advertising capabilities, while implementers retain responsibility for access controls.
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Amazon’s Review Requests format will invite verified buyers to leave ratings or reviews, but its pages give conflicting late-October and November US timings.
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Amazon says Sponsored Services places local home and auto service ads on shopping and post-purchase pages, initially for eligible US Yelp advertisers.
Amazon Ads
Amazon Ads says its natural-language analytics closed beta uses unified reporting and includes new-to-brand and long-term sales, with two access routes.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s updated help page says US Sponsored Products campaigns can select up to 10 Amazon or AMC audiences for bid boosts; elsewhere the limit remains one.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s 25 September announcement opens local DSP campaign creation in five additional markets. Self-service advertisers and agencies can buy display, video and audio across Amazon properties and the open internet.
Google Ads
Google’s announcement describes marketplace-linked campaigns, with examples focused on South-East Asia. Review the participating marketplace, seller and account eligibility before assuming the same route is available elsewhere.
Amazon Ads
Amazon describes a Prime delivery option for US Multi-Channel Fulfilment merchants at no additional fee; fulfilment itself remains paid. A separate pricing programme has its own eligibility and terms.
Amazon Ads
Amazon’s phased US rollout connects listings and orders across channels including eBay, Shopify, TikTok and Walmart. Distinguish the initial connections and fulfilment workflow from forthcoming editing and profitability capabilities.
Amazon Ads
Claire O’Donnell’s original announcement describes a grace period for eligible sellers to address a listing issue before removal, as well as three Seller Challenges within a 180-day period. For advertisers, the relevance is continuity: a listing problem can interrupt an otherwise healthy campaign.
Industry
Best Buy’s partnership announcement outlines an expanded path to CTV advertising, with Amazon programmatic activation set to begin in February 2027. It is a planning development rather than inventory to assume is available today.
Industry
Reporting describes a pilot across 450 US company-owned McDonald’s restaurants. That is a defined test, not access to the chain’s entire estate.
Amazon Ads
Amazon describes persistent memory and ongoing Seller Assistant workflows, alongside a US-beta plugin for Amazon Quick and Claude. The practical opportunity is to connect analysis with recurring seller tasks.
YouTube
Coverage describes a test of dynamic product-tag placement in YouTube Shopping. Treat it as an experiment in how products appear alongside content, not an option every creator or advertiser can already use.
Amazon Ads
Amazon announced expanded Ads data manager access for sponsored ads, now available globally. Its campaign-intelligence dashboard is scheduled for US advertisers in October, while automatic optimisation is scheduled for the US in January 2027.
Industry
Instacart’s original announcement describes grocery shopping in Muse as coming soon. This extends the commerce discussion beyond general merchandise, but it should not be presented as a feature every customer can use now.
Industry
The Shopify–Muse announcement brings product discovery and checkout into the same agent-led journey. Confirm merchant eligibility, checkout support and the customer handoff before assuming every catalogue is available.
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