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The Amazon PPC Campaign Budget ROAS Drain You Are Ignoring
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In this episode of Performance Marketing with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a costly but overlooked ROAS killer: campaign budget management on Amazon. Lucas explains how daily budgets that roll over into a monthly reset cycle create a fixed sum that, once spent, stops your ads cold — even on your best-converting hours. He contrasts this with Meta and Google's average daily budget system, which smooths spend over time and lets high-traffic days over-deliver. Lucas walks through a concrete example: a $100 daily budget that hits its cap by 3 PM on Prime Day, leaving six prime shopping hours unfunded. He recommends using lifetime budgets or portfolio budget rules to keep your ads running on high-traffic days, or at minimum checking your monthly reset date and adjusting daily budgets upward for peak periods. Luna challenges whether raising daily budgets just burns cash faster, and Lucas responds with a data threshold: if your return on ad spend is above your target, increasing budget often scales profitably. Listeners leave with one actionable fix — audit their monthly reset date today — and a better understanding of why Amazon's budget structure is fundamentally different from other platforms.