How to leverage cost-per-click (CPC) campaigns

Understand how to access and successfully utilize cost-per-click (CPC) campaigns for Amazon via Levanta.

By focusing on clicks rather than conversions, CPC campaigns offer creators a unique opportunity to diversify revenue, reduce risk, and ensure steady, sustainable income. Here’s how you can benefit from integrating CPC into your content strategy:

  • Earn on Every Click: Boost your revenue with the ability to earn on every click. Since sellers know that this can unlock incremental coverage and promotion, CPCs can provide the ability to earn more than your average CPA campaigns.
  • Lower Your Media Risk: Secure consistent earnings by getting paid for driving traffic, making your efforts more predictable and less reliant on conversions.
  • Diversify Revenue Streams: Strengthen your income by earning from a variety of sources, ensuring a more stable and sustainable revenue stream that can withstand market changes and audience shifts.
  • Minimize Reversals: Get rewarded for efforts to drive awareness and trial in-market while simplifying reporting since reversals/cancellations won't impact your earnings.
  • Promote with Confidence: Effortlessly promote across additional channels by understanding your cost limits based on the earning potential of your campaigns.

Here is brief video on how to access CPC campaigns on Levanta


Best Practices 

  • Lean into campaigns that elicit genuine interest and align well with your audience. This is a supplemental strategy to help you in promotion and in finding new products to cover. 
  • It is against our guidelines to drive incentivized or fraudulent traffic through Levanta. Creators that drive traffic to CPC or CPA campaigns utilizing incentivized or fraudulent clicks may be subject to commission reversals and/or removal from our platform.

FAQ

What happens to my links once a CPC campaign ends? 

Links will continue to track through Levanta once a CPC campaign ends, and will revert to the commission rate assigned to that ASIN by the seller where you will continue to earn on a CPA basis. It’s important to note that the same source will be applied to the fallback CPA link that the CPC link was utilizing, so you'll need to monitor expiration dates and budgets if it's important that the source matches the payout type. 

Do I need to put in different links to leverage CPC campaigns? 

Yes, you will need to embed the CPC specific links which will be available in our dashboard as well as via the API. You may notice a different structure than you’re accustomed to as CPC links will leverage Levanta’s redirect meaning links will start with levanta.io, not amazon.com. If you’re utilizing mobile deep-links already, you won’t notice a difference, but this is what allows Levanta links to successfully fallback to CPA campaigns once the CPC campaign ends. 

Where do I see reporting on CPC campaigns?

Within the Levanta dashboard, click “Reports” and go to Cost-Per-Click which will show you total earnings from CPC campaigns. Sales and conversion data will still be visible even though you're earning on click.