PREPARED BY 2PT TECHNOLOGIES · MARCH 2026

Amazon
Advertising
Audit

Jolly Pets and Horsemen's Pride. A full account review and roadmap to growth.

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OUR APPROACH

We try to be the customer
in the room.

Before we look at a single metric, we start where the customer starts: the search bar.

01
See what they see

We start where the customer starts: the search bar. Before we look at a single metric, we ask can they find you, and what do they find when they do?

02
Fix what gets in the way

Most lost sales are not a product problem. They are a structure problem. We identify exactly where customers are dropping off and what is standing between the brand and the sale.

03
Scale what earns the sale

Once the account is clean, we know what is working and why. Then we scale it methodically, with discipline, and always tied back to what a real customer responds to.

That is how we looked at Jolly Pets and Horsemen's Pride. Here is what we found.

Jolly Pets
SUMMARY
Strong product-market fit, broken account structure.
WHAT'S WORKING
The economics are healthy . Strong ROAS even on poorly run campaigns
Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands Categories are standout performers
1,131 purchases in 24 days with zero optimisation applied
WHAT'S BROKEN
Ads are live for as little as 22% of the day. Competitors own the rest.
Campaigns cannibalising each other with zero negative keywords
Money wasted on dead ad groups: WestPaw at 306% ACOS, Chew at 168% ACOS
JOLLY PETS FINDINGS
FINDING 1

Your ads are offline for most of the day

Every campaign runs out of budget before the day ends. SP BrandDefense is live for just 22% of the day. SP HeroSKU for 26%. Amazon's recommended budgets are 5 to 10x higher than what's currently set. For the majority of shopping hours, Jolly Pets simply does not exist on the platform.

Increase budgets incrementally on the two highest-performing campaigns first: SP Category (10.54 ROAS) and SB Category (7.51 ROAS). Starting with the campaigns that are proven to convert means every extra dollar has the highest chance of returning a sale.

More hours in market means more chances to win the sale. A 2x budget increase on the top two campaigns alone would significantly extend time in budget and recapture sales currently being handed to competitors.

TIME IN BUDGET PER CAMPAIGN
SP BrandDefense
22%
SP HeroSKU
26%
SP Competitor
37%
SP Category
44%
THE GAP
Amazon recommends budgets 5 to 10x higher. SP BrandDefense is offline for 78% of all shopping hours.
Immediate fix
Very high impact
Low effort
FINDING 2

Your campaigns are competing against each other

There are zero negative keywords across all 6 campaigns. When someone searches "jolly ball for dogs", up to 4 campaigns can bid simultaneously: SP BrandDefense, SP Category, SB BrandDefense, and SB Category, all competing against each other on the same brand search. The Competitor campaign is different; it targets competitor product pages via ASINs and does not enter keyword auctions. But 4 campaigns bidding on your own brand terms is still inflating costs and splitting budget that should be working as one.

Build a negative keyword list and apply it across every campaign immediately. Brand terms excluded from category and competitor campaigns. Category terms excluded from brand campaigns. Each campaign gets a clearly defined lane.

Cleaner spend, lower CPCs, and a reliable read on what's actually working. When campaigns stop cannibalising each other, performance data becomes trustworthy for the first time, making every future decision sharper.

WHEN SOMEONE SEARCHES
"jolly ball for dogs"
SP BrandDefense
SP Category
SB BrandDefense
SB Category
Up to 4 campaigns across brand and category bidding simultaneously, driving up your own costs
AFTER NEGATIVE KEYWORDS
Brand campaign
Brand terms only
Category campaign
Category terms only
Competitor campaign
Competitor terms only
Immediate fix
High impact
Low effort
FINDING 3

Significant spend is going to dead ad groups

Two ad groups are actively losing money on every click. WestPaw, a competitor-targeting ad group that shows ads on rival product pages, is running at 306% ACOS, spending $3.06 for every $1.00 it returns. Chew, a Jolly Pets product ad group, is at 168% ACOS. JollyTug has zero purchases from $5 in spend. Combined they are consuming budget that should be going to the account's best performers. This is not underperformance. It is a leak.

Pause WestPaw, Chew, and JollyTug immediately. No gradual wind-down, no monitoring period. The data is conclusive. Freed-up budget gets redirected to RompNRoll (8.06 ROAS), JollyEgg (6.08 ROAS), and SoccerBall (6.12 ROAS) where every dollar has a proven track record.

Immediate improvement in overall account efficiency. Stopping the bleed does not require new spend or structural changes. Just the discipline to cut what is not working. Budget that moves to top performers should start returning sales within days.

AD GROUP PERFORMANCE
COMPETITOR-TARGETING AD GROUP
WestPaw
0.33x
JOLLY PETS PRODUCT AD GROUPS
Chew
0.60x
JollyTug
0.00x
SoccerBall
6.12x
JollyEgg
6.08x
RompNRoll
8.06x
Immediate fix
Very high impact
Zero cost
FINDING 4

Discovery and precision targeting are tangled in the same ad groups

Jolly Pets does have keyword discovery running through Amazon's Keyword Groups, which are mixed into the same ad groups as hand-picked manual keywords. The problem is they share a budget. Keyword Groups cast a wider net and generate more impressions, so they eat the daily budget first. The manual keywords, which are supposed to be your precision, high-intent picks, never get enough spend to prove themselves. Discovery and conversion are crammed into the same place, so neither works properly.

Separate the two layers. Launch a dedicated Auto campaign with its own budget purely for discovery. This lets the automation do what it does best: find what real shoppers are searching. Winning search terms get harvested and promoted into separate manual campaigns as exact match keywords at controlled bids. Discovery feeds precision. They stop competing with each other.

For the first time, you will know exactly how much budget is going to discovery versus proven converters. Winning search terms get systematically promoted rather than lost in the noise. The account starts compounding: each week the automation finds new terms, the best ones graduate to exact match, and overall efficiency improves continuously.

WHAT A PROPER STRUCTURE LOOKS LIKE
AUTO CAMPAIGN: Discovery only
MISSING
↓ harvest winners
MANUAL EXACT: Proven converters
TANGLED
WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW
Keyword Groups (discovery) and manual keywords (precision) share the same ad groups and the same budget. The automation wins the spend race every time, leaving manual keywords starved of impressions. The winning terms it discovers are never systematically harvested and promoted.
Week 1 fix
High impact
Compounds over time
Horsemen's Pride
SUMMARY
A brand with a star product and a structure that's holding it back.
WHAT'S WORKING
5.32x blended ROAS on $1,891 spend in just 21 days. Strong early returns.
JollyBall is exceptional: 15.69x blended ROAS across its campaigns
MountBlock Auto is quietly delivering: 8.15 ROAS on a $243 average sale
WHAT'S BROKEN
Brand Defense consuming 33% of all spend, returning just $800 on $627 spent
Manual keyword bids set too low to win auctions. Amazon's automation does all the work.
JollyBall Auto at 20.70 ROAS has only spent $9 in 21 days. Being starved of budget.
HORSEMEN'S PRIDE FINDINGS
FINDING 1

Brand Defense is not defending the brand

The Brand Defense campaign consumes 33% of all spend at $627, returning just $800 at a 78% ACOS. It is doubling bids to attract new customers it was never designed to reach, pulling in searches like "barbie horse" and "chick enrichment toys." The campaign name says defense. The reality is an expensive acquisition campaign with no acquisition strategy.

Remove the +100% new-to-brand bid adjustment immediately. That is the single change that stops the bleeding fastest. Then implement aggressive negative keyword hygiene, cutting every irrelevant term with zero sales.

Removing the bid doubling and cleaning the targeting could recover the majority of that $627 in wasted spend. Brand Defense should become the cheapest traffic in the account, not the most expensive.

CAMPAIGN ACOS
78%
Spending $0.79 for every $1.00 generated
SHARE OF TOTAL SPEND
33%
$627 spent · only $800 returned
THE BID DOUBLING PROBLEM
A +100% new-to-brand adjustment doubles every bid for first-time shoppers. But those shoppers arrive via irrelevant searches, not brand intent. Paying double for people with no interest in Horseman's Pride.
Immediate fix
Very high impact
5 minutes
FINDING 2

Manual keywords are losing to Amazon's own automation

Bids on hand-selected keywords are set 40 to 60% below Amazon's recommendations. They cannot win auctions and barely register an impression. Amazon's automated Keyword Group targeting steps in and does all the work. The TreatToy Exact campaign: 100% of its 40 purchases came from automation. Zero from manually selected keywords.

Raise all manual keyword bids to at least Amazon's suggested minimum. The JollyBall Exact campaign proves this works. "Jolly ball horse" alone generated 59 sales and $1,527, outperforming automated targeting by more than 2x.

When manual keywords compete, the account stops being a black box. Real control returns over which searches trigger ads, which products get promoted, and where money goes. That control makes growth predictable rather than accidental.

CURRENT BID vs AMAZON SUGGESTED
horse boredom feeder
$0.57
Suggested $0.93
horse treat toy
$0.81
Suggested $1.33
horse mounting block
$0.73
Suggested $0.93
jolly ball horse ✓
$0.83 near suggested
PROOF IT WORKS
"Jolly ball horse", the only keyword bid near the suggested rate, generated 59 sales and $1,527, outperforming Amazon's automation 2x in the same campaign.
This week
Very high impact
30 minutes
FINDING 3

Zero negative keywords: $565 wasted in a single campaign

No negative keywords anywhere in the account. In Brand Defense alone, 180 out of 203 search terms generated zero sales, accounting for $565 in completely wasted spend. Terms like "barbie horse", "baby goats toys", and "cheetah print fly boots" are triggering ads. The 23 converting terms generate all revenue from just $82 in spend.

Build and implement a negative keyword list immediately. Every irrelevant non-converting term gets blocked. Cross-campaign negatives added to stop Auto and Manual campaigns competing for the same searches.

The fastest financial win in the account. Removing 180 wasteful terms does not require new budget or structural changes. That $565 stays in the account and goes to searches already proven to convert.

SEARCH TERMS WITH ZERO SALES
180
Out of 203 total, 89% of the campaign
SPEND ON NON-CONVERTING TERMS
$565
87% of campaign budget returning nothing
THE 23 vs 180 SPLIT
Just 23 terms generate 100% of revenue from $82 spend. The other 180 generate nothing from $565. Negatives fix this immediately.
Immediate fix
Very high impact
Zero cost
FINDING 4

The best campaign in the account is being starved

JollyBall Auto has a 20.70 ROAS, the highest in the entire account. In 21 days it generated 8 purchases from just 23 clicks: a 34.8% conversion rate signalling exceptionally high purchase intent. But it has spent only $9 despite a $35 daily budget. The default bid is $0.40 against Amazon's suggested $0.66. It cannot win auctions.

Increase the default bid from $0.40 to at least $0.66. This is a five minute change. Given the conversion rate already demonstrated, even a more aggressive increase is justified. Every auction it starts winning is a sale it was not getting before.

The single highest impact change available in the account right now. A campaign converting at 34.8% with a 20.70 ROAS does not need to be proven. It needs to be funded. Within days of the bid increase it should start spending toward its actual budget.

JOLLYBALL AUTO: THE NUMBERS
ROAS
Best in the entire account
20.70x
Conversion rate
8 purchases from 23 clicks
34.8%
Budget utilisation
$9 spent of $735 available
1.2%
Bid vs suggested
$0.40 current vs $0.66 suggested
39% low
Immediate fix
Highest impact
5 minutes
What Happens Next
THE PLAN

The Next 14 Days

Before we spend a single dollar more, we fix the structure.

HYGIENE
Days 1 to 5
Add negative keywords across all campaigns, both accounts
Pause WestPaw and Chew ad groups (Jolly Pets)
Remove +100% new-to-brand bid adjustment (Horseman's Pride)
Raise all manual keyword bids to suggested minimums
Switch all campaigns to "Limit off-Amazon spend"
Remove Easter bid rules from underperforming campaigns
RESTRUCTURE
Days 6 to 10
Restructure campaign architecture across both accounts
Launch Auto discovery campaign (Jolly Pets)
Increase JollyBall Auto bid to $0.66 minimum (Horseman's Pride)
Add top-of-search placement adjustments on priority campaigns
Align bidding strategies to campaign purpose
Begin harvesting converting search terms for exact match
PREPARE FOR SCALE
Days 11 to 14
Review search term reports daily
Identify new negative keywords from live data
Assess budget pacing across all campaigns
Confirm underperformer pauses are holding
First performance checkpoint: ROAS, ACOS, time-in-budget
Prepare monthly scaling recommendations
BUDGET AND LAUNCH
$10k
PER MONTH AT LAUNCH · BOTH ACCOUNTS

Sized to give every restructured campaign enough budget to spend fully, generate meaningful data quickly, and demonstrate what these accounts are capable of when properly funded.

The goal in month one is not maximum spend. It is maximum learning, so that every dollar added in month two and beyond goes in with confidence.

WE SCALE WHEN
E
Efficiency
ROAS holds at or above target before we add spend
I
Inventory
We never scale into a stockout
D
Data
Each campaign earns its increase through performance, not assumption
REPORTING

How We Monitor

A working dashboard reviewed daily. Not a monthly report you read after the damage is done.

SPEND AND EFFICIENCY
Daily spend vs budget by campaign
ROAS by campaign and ad group
ACOS by campaign and ad group
Time-in-budget: are campaigns running out before the day ends?
TRAFFIC QUALITY
Impression share by placement
Click-through rate by campaign
New search terms reviewed for negatives daily
Top-of-search impression share
CONVERSION
Orders and revenue by campaign
Conversion rate by ad group
Cost per acquisition by product line
ACCOUNT HEALTH
Budget pacing alerts, flagged before campaigns go dark
Keyword bid vs suggested bid gap, flagged if falling behind
Any campaigns with zero impressions in 48 hours
TO GET STARTED

Five things to do
after this meeting

01
Sign off on the approach

Confirm the 14-day plan and starting budget so we can begin immediately.

02
Share account access

Share Amazon Advertising account access for both Jolly Pets and Horsemen's Pride with the 2pt team.

03
Kick off

We begin hygiene work on both accounts within 24 hours of access being granted.

04
Mid-point check in

A call at Day 7 to review early data and confirm the restructure is on track before launch.

05
Launch review

Full performance review at Day 14 with a first look at the new campaign structure live in market.