June 19, 2025

Outcome-Based Measurement on Amazon DSP: The New Standard for Performance Advertising

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Vasilios Lambos

CEO @ Lambos Digital

Outcome-Based Measurement on Amazon DSP: The New Standard for Performance Advertising

For years, programmatic advertising has relied on proxy metrics—impressions, clicks, viewability—as a way to judge success. But in today’s results-driven world, advertisers demand more than surface-level indicators. They want to know what actually moved the needle.

That’s where outcome-based measurement on Amazon DSP changes the game.

Amazon has evolved its demand-side platform from a media-buying tool into a commerce-driven, outcome-focused engine, and it’s shifting how agencies and brands think about performance.

Here’s how.

What Is Outcome-Based Measurement?

Outcome-based measurement focuses on real business results—not just campaign delivery or engagement. Instead of optimizing toward views or clicks, it ties media spend to meaningful actions like:

  • Product detail page views (DPV)
  • Add to carts (ATC)
  • Purchase conversions
  • New-to-brand (NTB) customers
  • Offline sales lift
  • Return on ad spend (ROAS)

This approach ensures every impression is accountable—not to ad tech metrics, but to outcomes that matter to marketers and CFOs alike.

Why Amazon DSP Is Built for Outcomes

Unlike most DSPs, Amazon owns the full funnel:

  • Awareness: Fire TV, Twitch, Freevee, and top-tier third-party inventory
  • Consideration: Detail page visits and search behavior on Amazon.com
  • Conversion: Actual product purchases—online or in-store

This gives Amazon DSP a unique advantage: the ability to connect media exposure to real purchase behavior using deterministic, first-party data.

Other platforms estimate. Amazon verifies.

Key Outcome Metrics in Amazon DSP

When running campaigns, Amazon DSP lets advertisers track a full suite of retail-driven outcomes, including:

1. Detail Page Views (DPV)

This measures whether a user viewed a product detail page after being exposed to an ad. It’s an early but strong signal of interest.

2. Add to Cart (ATC)

When someone adds a product to their cart post-exposure, it suggests high intent—especially valuable in retargeting strategies.

3. Total Purchases & Units Sold

Amazon provides actual conversion data—no modeled attribution—allowing for precise ROI reporting.

4. New-to-Brand (NTB)

Amazon flags whether a purchase came from a shopper who hadn’t bought from your brand in the past 12 months. This is key for understanding customer acquisition impact.

5. ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)

The ultimate bottom-line metric. By tying sales directly to campaign spend, Amazon provides clarity on profitability.

Connected TV + Commerce = The New Gold Standard

Where this becomes even more powerful is CTV advertising.

With Amazon DSP, you can run streaming TV ads across Fire TV, Twitch, and partner apps, and still measure outcomes like:

  • Who watched your ad
  • Whether they visited a product page
  • Whether they added to cart or purchased
  • Whether it was a new or returning customer

This is where Amazon DSP breaks away from the pack. No other platform offers video-based storytelling with closed-loop measurement and purchase attribution like Amazon.

Getting Started: How to Build Outcome-Based Campaigns on Amazon DSP

  1. Start with a clear conversion goal: Is it new customer acquisition? Retargeting high-intent browsers? Maximizing product sales?
  2. Select Amazon-native audiences based on in-market behaviors or brand affinity.
  3. Use creatives tailored for action: feature product benefits, CTAs, and Amazon branding.
  4. Enable purchase tracking via Amazon Attribution or pixel tracking for off-Amazon buys.
  5. Use the Amazon Marketing Cloud (AMC) to dive deeper into custom queries and audience journey analysis.
  6. Partner with a platform like Dorado to simplify activation, measurement, and optimization with dashboard-level visibility.

The Bottom Line

Outcome-based measurement is not a buzzword—it’s the new baseline for programmatic media. And no one is better positioned than Amazon DSP to deliver on that promise.

With full-funnel visibility, unmatched shopper data, and deterministic attribution, Amazon DSP allows advertisers to trade in guesswork for guaranteed performance.

Whether you're running video, display, or streaming TV, you’re no longer buying impressions—you’re buying outcomes.

Interested in turning Amazon DSP into a performance engine for your brand or agency?


Let’s talk about how Dorado can help simplify campaign setup, automate reporting, and deliver real business results.

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