Amazon Ads is powerful.We make it simple.
The Impact Lab is a boutique Amazon Advertising consultancy. We turn Amazon Ads into a measurable growth channel for brands that don't sell on Amazon.
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1P Activator.
Drop a file. Ask a question. Get actual results.
Ask in plain language. Get an answer interpreted for your brand, with the next step clear. Real answers from the Amazon signals you already have. Drop in your own first party data when you want to go further.
Marketers now expect to ask questions in plain language and get answers. Assembling that experience is complex engineering work.
1P Activator takes out the complexity, so you get straight to the value.
What to do: Activate as a DSP audience. Start with Sponsored Display to confirm response before scaling spend.
The marketer asks. The answer arrives interpreted. The action is on the table.
1P Activator provides 50+ answers.
Not 50+ queries.
Most answers come from the Amazon signals you already have. Below are six categories from the library. Every entry is a packaged answer: a question worth asking, plus the interpreted result, plus the recommended next move. Examples shown are illustrative.
Attribution & Conversion Paths
Question
“Which ad types drove first time sign ups last quarter?”
Answer, explained
Video drove 62% of net new sign ups at 2.3x the conversion rate of display, but at 1.8x the cost per sign up.
Recommended Action
Shift 20% of display budget to video for the next 30 days. Hold display for retargeting only.
LTV & Customer Value
Question
“Which of my customer segments have the highest 12 month LTV?”
Answer, explained
Segment B (premium card holders, 35 to 54) shows 3.1x LTV vs. blended. Currently underserved in your Amazon spend.
Recommended Action
Build a lookalike audience and bid 40% higher on segment B reach for the next quarter.
Lookalike Audience Discovery
Question
“Find Amazon audiences that look like my best customers.”
Answer, explained
2.3M Amazon shoppers match your top LTV profile, with 3.4x higher intent. Estimated CAC: $42 vs. blended $87.
Recommended Action
Activate as a DSP audience. Target via Sponsored Display first to confirm response before scaling.
Frequency & Reach
Question
“Where am I over exposing audiences without lifting outcomes?”
Answer, explained
Beyond 8 impressions per week, conversion lift flattens. You are spending 22% of budget on impressions 9 plus.
Recommended Action
Cap frequency at 8 per week. Redirect the recovered budget to under exposed high LTV segments.
Incrementality Measurement
Question
“How much of my conversions were truly driven by Amazon ads?”
Answer, explained
Exposed shoppers converted at 4.2x the rate of matched unexposed. Net incremental ROAS: 3.1x.
Recommended Action
Reauthorize current budget at full level. Bring measurement plan to next QBR with finance team.
Cross Channel Overlap
Question
“How much do my Amazon audiences overlap with my other paid channels?”
Answer, explained
38% of Amazon converters also touched paid search within 14 days. You are paying twice on a third of the funnel.
Recommended Action
Move Amazon to upper funnel exclusively for the overlapping segment. Reallocate paid search budget downward.
FAQs.
The Impact Lab is a boutique Amazon Advertising consultancy and product company, founded by former Amazon Ads and AWS leaders. We help brands that advertise on Amazon but convert customers off it turn their advertising into measurable growth. We do this two ways: through hands on consulting engagements, and through the Impact Suite, our family of AI powered products. 1P Activator is the first, now in closed beta.
The Impact Lab is built specifically for non-endemic advertisers: brands that don't sell products directly on Amazon. This includes financial services, travel, hospitality, insurance, gaming, automotive, telecom, and other brands where sales or conversions occur off Amazon.
We don't sell media, manage campaigns, or provide generic analytics dashboards. The Impact Lab focuses exclusively on building and operating the measurement layer that non-endemic brands need to make Amazon Advertising accountable. We complement existing teams. Our focus is the measurement layer that most agencies and internal teams aren't structured to build or operate, especially for non-endemic use cases.
Endemic brands can measure Amazon performance at the point of sale. Non-endemic brands can't. Without direct transaction data, non-endemic advertisers must rely on first party data, clean room environments, and advanced measurement frameworks to understand true impact. That's the gap we're designed to close.
Amazon Marketing Cloud is the foundation of our measurement approach. AMC allows us to analyze exposure, audience behavior, and media interactions in a privacy safe environment. When combined with first party data and clean room architecture, it enables closed loop measurement for non-endemic brands.
First party data is essential for closed loop measurement, but brands always retain full ownership and control. The Impact Lab helps non-endemic advertisers leverage their existing conversion or event data, like customer actions, sign ups, or downstream outcomes, to measure the true business impact of Amazon Advertising. We design privacy safe measurement frameworks that connect Amazon media exposure to these outcomes without taking possession of, or repurposing, customer data.
Yes. Our measurement frameworks are built to be privacy safe by design. We operate within Amazon's clean room environments and industry best practices for data governance, consent, and security.
Engagements typically focus on designing, implementing, and operating measurement systems for Amazon Advertising. This may include data integration, AMC analysis, experimentation frameworks, and ongoing insight delivery, all tailored to non-endemic business outcomes.
ChatGPT does not have access to your Amazon Marketing Cloud signals or your first party data. Dashboards give you charts to read, not answers to act on. What makes 1P Activator different is the architecture underneath: MCP servers, IAM policies, identity resolution, secure infrastructure, and the API endpoint connections that stitch it all together. Assembling that is complex, technical work. We did all the hard work, so you don't have to.
You need an AWS environment. That's where 1P Activator deploys, and it's what keeps your data inside your own perimeter. If you don't have one, we'll set it up for you at no charge. From there, all your data, including any first party data you connect, stays in your environment. You own it. We can operate it for you, or hand you the keys.
Amazon only.Built by insiders.
The Impact Lab is an Amazon only analytics and AI partner built by former Amazon and AWS leaders. We help brands unlock the full potential of Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC), Amazon DSP, and AWS by turning first party data into measurable business impact.
Our mission is simple: help marketers go beyond surface level reporting to achieve deeper insight, smarter decisions, and faster growth, powered by AI and grounded in Amazon's unique data ecosystem.
Non-endemic brands work with The Impact Lab because we bring clarity to a complex ecosystem. We close the measurement gap using data, technology, and deep Amazon expertise built from within.

CEO / Founder
Matthew Dwyer
Matthew Dwyer is the founder and CEO of The Impact Lab. A transformation executive and ad tech strategist with over 25 years of experience at the intersection of media, data, and technology, Matthew founded The Impact Lab to solve a problem he saw repeatedly at Amazon: non-endemic brands investing in Amazon Advertising without a clear way to measure impact.
Before founding The Impact Lab, Matthew spent nearly a decade at Amazon, where he built and led the Global Ad Tech Solutions (ATS) organization within Amazon Advertising. Under his leadership, ATS grew from concept to a global consulting practice spanning the U.S., Europe, Canada, LATAM, and Japan, helping enterprise advertisers solve measurement, attribution, and first party data activation challenges.
Prior to Amazon, Matthew was an executive with AWS Professional Services, overseeing large scale digital transformation initiatives for Fortune 100 companies.

Board Advisor
Grant Keller
Grant Keller has joined The Impact Lab as a Board Advisor. A seasoned growth strategist and technology leader with more than 30 years' experience scaling marketing, technology, and data driven businesses, Grant was part of the founding team of Acceleration (now part of WPP Media), where he helped build one of the earliest consulting and technology partnerships around Google's marketing stack.
Across his career, Grant has guided organizations through digital transformation, integrating emerging technologies, optimizing marketing operations, and turning complex data ecosystems into competitive advantage.
At The Impact Lab, his experience comes full circle. Just as Acceleration helped brands navigate Google's early platform era, The Impact Lab is now helping marketers unlock the business impact behind Amazon's ecosystem, translating media investment into measurable outcomes.
Let's turn your Amazon spendinto measurable growth.
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