eBay Promoted Listings
managed for sales, not impressions.
Standard and Advanced campaigns, ad rates controlled against your margin, and weekly optimisation — so your ad spend brings orders instead of quietly eating your profit.
What Promoted Listings management includes
Both eBay ad products, managed against the numbers that actually matter — margin after ad fees, not impressions.
Promoted Listings Standard
Ad rates set per category and per listing, based on what the sale can actually carry.
Promoted Listings Advanced
Keyword-level campaigns with manual bids for the products where control is worth the effort.
Margin-first ad rates
Every ad rate checked against your margin before it is raised, so you are not buying loss-making sales.
Keyword & placement review
Search terms reviewed weekly, with negatives and bid changes on what spends without converting.
Campaign structure
Listings grouped so your best sellers are not subsidising items that never convert.
Seasonal planning
Ad rates and budgets planned around your category’s peaks instead of reacting after they pass.
Sales & markdown coordination
Promotions, markdown sales and coupons coordinated with ads so they do not compete with each other.
Weekly reporting
Spend, attributed sales, ad fee percentage and what changed — in plain language, every week.
Promoted Listings is easy to switch on and easy to lose money with.
eBay suggests an ad rate and most sellers accept it across the whole store. That rate is not calculated from your margin, and on thin-margin items it can turn a profitable sale into a loss.
- Ad rates set from your margin, not eBay’s suggested rate
- Standard and Advanced used where each actually fits
- Weekly search-term review, not set-and-forget
- Direct access to the person managing your campaigns
How campaigns are optimised
Timelines depend on catalogue size and how much history the account already has.
Three steps from first message to done
Free ads review
We look at your current campaigns, ad fee percentage and which listings are carrying the spend.
Restructure & set rates
Campaigns rebuilt and ad rates set against your margin, with the plan agreed in writing first.
Optimise weekly
Search terms, rates and budgets reviewed every week, with a report so you see exactly what changed.
Related eBay services
Most clients combine two or three of these — the same listing and account data feeds all of them.
Promoted Listings & Ads FAQ
What is the difference between Standard and Advanced?+
What ad rate should I use?+
Do ads help my organic ranking?+
How much budget do I need?+
Can you run ads on eBay UK and eBay US?+
What do I get each week?+
Ads spending without selling?
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