Making Amazon Essential for Every Ad Buy

- ClientAmazon
- IndustryTech

A Global, 360° Campaign
Unlike anything Amazon Ads had ever done before, Code and Theory created this campaign using striking visuals and idiomatic language to speak to marketers and agency professionals — stripping away metrics and marketing jargon to focus on the recognizable worlds and real people their brand could reach.
The campaign represented a big opportunity to reorient Amazon Ads, moving their creative output away from product-forward messaging and towards immersive, impactful campaign-level thinking. We weren’t showing or selling product search and display ads; we were telling an ambitious story about the types of brands Amazon can serve, including aspirational, non-endemic industry leaders like 20th Century Fox, Mitsubishi, Mastercard, and more. Amazon Ads showcased that they can reach customers when they're streaming, gaming, listening and reading through their well-established properties like Twitch, Fire TV, Prime Video, Amazon Music and more.
In this way, “Your brand. Their world.” offered its audience an entirely new perspective on brand advertising — even as it maintained a core tenet of Amazon’s outlook: putting customers first.
In the end, this paean to the power of brand advertising showed how Amazon Ads’ immersive touch points can help marketers meet consumers in their moment and play a seamless part in their passions.
Positioning Amazon Ads as essential for modern media plans
Amazon Ads was ready to launch its first global 360° campaign as a clear statement of intent—and a chance to change how marketers and agencies understand what it can do. The challenge was to move beyond the familiar performance-only story and show up as a credible brand-building partner, without leaning on the usual metrics-heavy language.
The work takes a single idea and makes it feel present wherever decisions are made, pairing striking visuals with idiomatic language rooted in real human worlds. Designed to meet people in the moments that matter, it helps make Amazon feel essential in every media plan.
Key Takeaways
Recasted Amazon Ads as a brand-building platform that connects emotionally and contextually with customers
Activated a multi-platform campaign across Amazon’s digital and physical ecosystem for seamless cross-channel reach
Elevated Amazon Ads’ market position from performance-focused tool to a full-funnel strategic partner
Showed how customer-first storytelling can shift perceptions faster than product-led messaging

An Advertising Takeover to Meet the Moment
“Your brand. Their world.” played at the center of the advertising universe — taking over the Times Sq. Spectacular, Marriott Marquee, Hudson Yards, Link NYCs, and bus shelters around the city during Advertising Week. We splashed display across popular digital spaces, from Adweek to Spotify to Rolling Stone. And across social, we showed what separates Amazon Ads: a chance to connect in the moments that matter.
What We Did
Global audience research to understand how marketers and agencies perceive Amazon Ads and where the story needed to shift
360° campaign strategy for a cross-channel rollout spanning video, out-of-home, audio, social, and display
Core creative concept “Your brand. Their world.” with a messaging framework built to replace product-first talk with human worlds
Full broadcast and content production including video and photography assets built for use across placements and formats
Photo grid supports exactly two, three, or four photograph or video containers.
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