Amazon Plans To Directly Compete With Google Adwords

By Omar Rashad


Amazon and Google are kind of adversaries when it comes to online marketing. They have been having a tenuous relationship for a long period of time now. The companies are competing head-to-head when it comes to online product search and delivery services of phones and other mobile devices. But, still Amazon is considered to be one of the largest text-ad advertisers of Google. Amazon also gets a share of revenue by running Google AdSense ads on its site.



However, it looks like Google is going to have some serious competition soon. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Amazon will be introducing their own form of targeted ads later this year. The program will draw upon Amazon's wealth of customer shopping data.

Amazon's wealth of product and shopping data would inevitably be a very strong draw for the advertiser who is looking for more reach and flexibility beyond Google AdWords. Even though Google also has its own database of products and product search, it is quite minimal when it comes to what consumers actually buy. Amazon is far ahead of Google in this aspect. They have cleverly amassed this data with features like Log-in With Amazon that allows Amazon's over 250-million customers to use their Amazon credentials when making an important purchase through Amazon or other websites.

A wide range of advertisers will benefit from this wealth of information that Amazon possesses. The new platform is going to be simple and not in anyway over-sophisticated as per the current hints. It will include the bare minimum functionality in anticipation of gradual improvements over time.

Still, Amazon already has a huge portion of the business world on their lap and has defined their niche online. Furthermore, they are already getting a tool ready to go to make sure that businesses everywhere can purchase these new ads in bulk. It's going to be interesting to see what is coming as Amazon continues to steamroll forward as a business that is not only well-established but very innovative.

The huge customer data base of Amazon can definitely make these ads more "click-worthy" to users in the long run. They are far ahead of Google in this regard. This is the salient feature of Amazon in attracting their share of online ads in the long run. This is why the online world is watching the latest developments of Amazon so eagerly.




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