E-commerce

Shopping & Retail Media Ads

Product Listing Ads and retail media across Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and eBay, plus dynamic retargeting, run on one clean product feed and managed to margin, not just ROAS.

What it is

One feed, every shelf, managed to profit.

Product Listing Ads (PLA) are the image-price-title units shoppers click before they ever read a description. They all run on one thing: a clean product feed. We engineer that feed, then put your products on every surface that sells for your category, and manage the spend to contribution margin instead of vanity ROAS.

Core services include
  • Product feed engineering and Merchant Center / catalog health, the foundation under every shopping ad
  • Google Shopping and Performance Max, structured by margin and product tier, not one blended ROAS
  • Microsoft / Bing Shopping to pick up the in-market buyers Google misses
  • Amazon Sponsored Products, Brands, and Display managed to ACOS targets (see our Amazon page for the deep version)
  • Meta and TikTok catalog / shopping ads with dynamic product creative
  • Pinterest and eBay product ads where your category actually converts
  • Dynamic retargeting across Criteo, Google, and Meta to win back cart and product-page abandoners
Definition

What is Shopping & Retail Media Ads (Product Listing Ads and Retail Media)?

Shopping & Retail Media Ads are product-focused advertising campaigns that show your actual items, with image, price, and title, across shopping surfaces and retailer networks like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, and eBay. They run off a single product data feed and are managed to profit margin, not just return on ad spend.

How it works

A clean product feed (titles, images, prices, availability, identifiers) is submitted to each platform, which matches your listings to shopping intent and serves them as visual product ads and dynamic retargeting. Bids, budgets, and feed rules are then tuned per product against margin and stock, not a blanket account-wide return target.

Who it’s for

For online retailers and e-commerce brands with a real product catalog who want more profitable sales, not just traffic; the outcome is trackable orders won at a margin the business can actually keep, plus recovered would-be-lost sales through retargeting shoppers who viewed but didn't buy.

In practice

A home goods store fixes its product titles and images in one feed, then runs Shopping ads across Google and Microsoft plus retargeting on Meta and Pinterest; high-margin, in-stock items get more bid weight while thin-margin clearance items are held back, so ad spend concentrates on the products that actually pay.

Who it is for.

  • E-commerce and DTC brands selling across more than one marketplace
  • Retailers who live or die on feed quality and margin, not clicks
  • Teams running Google Shopping but ignoring Microsoft, Pinterest, or retargeting
  • Sellers whose catalog is too big to manage product-by-product by hand

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See it in action

One clean feed, selling on every surface.

Product Feed Healthyourbrand.com, 1,284 SKUs live
Feed 98% clean
Blended ROAS
4.6x
Contribution margin
31%
Feed errors fixed
73
Surfaces syndicated from one feed
Google Shopping96%
Meta Advantage+89%
Amazon Ads82%
TikTok Shop64%
Pinterest58%
!12 low-margin SKUs paused, spend reallocated to high-margin bestsellers

Illustrative example, styled to show the kind of output we deliver.

Selected work

Representative engagements.

Retail-media and product ads across Google, Amazon, and the marketplaces, driven by a clean feed.

Multi-channel retailer

Selling on several marketplaces with no unified product-ads strategy.

What we did
  • Fixed and enriched the product feed
  • Split campaigns by margin + intent across Google + Amazon
  • Added retargeting via Criteo + Meta

Result More profitable product-ad spend across channels with consistent reporting.

DTC brand · slipping ROAS

Shopping performance fell as the catalog grew.

What we did
  • Feed cleanup + custom labels
  • Priority bidding by margin
  • Pinterest + Microsoft expansion

Result Recovered ROAS and opened profitable new channels.

Examples are anonymized to honor client NDAs and edited to illustrate typical scope, outcomes vary by market, budget, and starting point.

How & why it works

The feed decides before the bid does.

Shopping ads aren't won at the bid, they're won in the feed: the data you send decides which queries you match, whether you show at all, and what each click costs. We engineer that feed, encode your margins into it, and let every platform's algorithm compete for your products on profit terms.

  1. Fix and enrich the feedClear Merchant Center / catalog disapprovals (missing or invalid GTIN, MPN, brand; availability and price mismatches against the site), then rewrite titles to front-load brand + product type + key attributes so they match how shoppers actually search. The feed, not ad copy, decides which queries you're eligible for.
  2. Encode margin as feed dataTag every SKU with custom_label_0-4 for contribution-margin tier, stock depth, sell-through velocity, and season. Those labels are what let us bid a product, not the whole account, so spend can concentrate on what actually makes money instead of a single blended ROAS that hides your losers.
  3. Structure for profit, not revenueFeed margin-adjusted conversion values (or value rules) so Performance Max and Standard Shopping optimize to contribution dollars rather than top-line revenue. Split high-margin winners and thin clearance into separate priority campaigns with their own budgets and negative-keyword ladders.
  4. Syndicate one feed to every surfacePush the same clean feed to the shelves your category converts on, Google and Microsoft Shopping, Meta and TikTok catalogs, Pinterest, eBay, so you fix product data once and it flows everywhere, instead of maintaining a broken feed per channel.
  5. Retarget on incremental liftWire dynamic retargeting (Criteo, Google, Meta) to the same feed and view_item / add_to_cart events, then measure it with holdout tests, not last-click ROAS, so you fund the recovered sales that wouldn't have happened anyway rather than paying to reach buyers already coming back.
Worked exampleA DTC housewares brand with ~1,800 SKUs was running one blended Google Shopping campaign at a 3.1x ROAS that quietly lost money on half its catalog.
  • Rebuilt the feed: fixed 340 disapprovals from missing GTINs and mismatched availability, and rewrote titles to lead with brand + product type + size
  • Tagged every SKU with custom_label_0 = margin tier and custom_label_1 = 90-day sell-through, then split Standard Shopping into high/low priority tiers
  • Fed margin-adjusted conversion values so Performance Max optimized to contribution dollars, not revenue, and pushed thin clearance items to a capped low-priority campaign
  • Blended ROAS held near 3x, but contribution margin on ad-driven orders improved by roughly 20% as spend shifted off break-even SKUs onto the profitable ones
Why it works

A Product Listing Ad is generated from your feed, so the quality and structure of that data sets a ceiling no bid can raise, a disapproved or mistitled product simply doesn't enter the auction. Once the feed is clean, encoding margin directly into it turns each platform's bidding algorithm into a profit engine: it will chase whatever value you feed it, so feeding profit instead of revenue makes the machine work for the number that matters. And because every surface reads the same feed, that work compounds across channels rather than being redone on each one.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

A Product Listing Ad is the visual unit with your product image, price, and title that appears in shopping results and feeds. Unlike a text ad, it is generated from your product feed, so the feed, not the ad copy, is what mostly decides performance.

Google Shopping and Performance Max, Microsoft / Bing Shopping, Amazon, Meta and TikTok catalog ads, Pinterest, and eBay, plus dynamic retargeting through Criteo, Google, and Meta. We start with the two or three that fit your category and margins, not all of them at once.

The Amazon page goes deep on Amazon alone. This service is the cross-platform layer, one product feed feeding every other shelf, with Amazon included but not the whole story.

To profit. We segment products by contribution margin so spend concentrates on what actually makes money, instead of chasing a single blended ROAS that hides your losers.

Retargeting shows your products again to people who viewed or abandoned them. For most stores it can be among the most efficient spend you can run, when you measure incremental lift rather than last-click ROAS, so we wire dynamic retargeting (Criteo, Google, Meta) into the same feed.

Let’s make it measurable.