Connecting Amazon Ads with small businesses everywhere
- ClientAmazon Ads
- IndustryAdvertising & Marketing
- ServicesBranding
- CapabilitiesCampaign Development
A Campaign to Reframe Collaboration
Small businesses are always looking for new customers — and Amazon already has them. To shift perceptions and build trust, Amazon partnered with us to create a campaign that showed entrepreneurs the brand wasn’t a corporate competitor, but a powerful collaborator. Ads That Work as Hard as You Do bridged the gap between the world’s biggest business and the world’s small businesses, bringing new customers closer than ever imagined.
Key Takeaways
Doubled traffic to Amazon Ads' dot com destination
Harnessed Amazon's customer data to support SMB's in reaching their target audiences
Produced a global, integrated campaign in less than six months
Impact
+26% Increase in ad revenues in Q3 (totaling more than $12 billion)
818M Impressions from global campaign
700K Website visits directed from campaign
+26% of small business sales were attributed to Amazon Ads
+66% Lift in unaided brand awareness
3x Gold Winner in the ANA Ace Awards
B2B Campaign of the Year in The Drum Awards
Digiday Awards Best in B2B
Understanding the landscape
Over 90% of businesses are small businesses. To earn the trust and ad dollars of this massive, multi-hyphenate audience, we first had to understand them.
So we led focus groups, conducted social listening, and dove into the latest economic data. What we discovered was a community of hard workers who wear every hat. They needed solutions that are flexible, scalable, and work fast. Just like them.

Delivering the message
We meticulously built our campaign, "Ads That Work as Hard as You Do," upon a shared language: hard work.
Our platform honored the nonstop effort of small business owners everywhere — and promised we would be worthy of it. Our execution proved it, with a unique visual metaphor that showed new customers are never more than an arm's length away with Amazon Ads.
Harnessing data to drive results
It’s one thing to talk about hard work. We knew Amazon had the bonafides to back it up. Because Amazon isn’t just an ad platform; it’s a people platform where customers shop, stream, read, listen, search and even more.
Our campaign tapped into this truth, demonstrating how Amazon’s data and insights ensure every ad works hard.
From corporate competitor to colossal collaborator
Ads That Work as Hard as You Do was another high-performing collaboration between our agency and Amazon Ads — one that demonstrated how to effectively connect Amazon Ads with its audience by fostering closer relationships with their customers.
What We Did
Audience research
Campaign strategy
Campaign idea
Broadcast production
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