The ones who win treat it as a three-week campaign.
Every year, we watch the same five advertising mistakes quietly drain budget — and drag down organic rank long after the deals end:
→ Treating the event as a single day, not a curve
→ Letting budgets cap out at peak traffic
→ Spending out of step with inventory
→ Ignoring the deal-badge disconnect
→ Judging success on event-window metrics alone
None of the fixes are complicated. But they have to be in place before the traffic spikes — not scrambled together at hour 30 when your best SKU is already out of stock.
We broke down all five (mistake + the fix for each) in the one-pager below.
What's the costliest Prime Day mistake you've seen? Drop it in the comments.