Amazon changing Ad platform again.

[Marti Talbott]

I really hate change, but then I'm at that age. Just when I think I know what I'm doing everything changes.

Look for the announcement where you look to see if anyone clicked on your ad - whatever we're calling that these days.

[Maggie Ann]

Are they just redesigning the layout or is there a more fundamental change to the way the ads work that I missed.

I haven't been on that page for quite a while and I like the layout they have now. Allowed me to see just how much money I lost on AMS ads.

[notthatamanda]

I see this:

Navigation Updates
Improvements to the advertising console navigation will be released soon. Learn more on the Amazon Advertising blog.

Okay, off to the blog I go.  But it says navigation.

Edit - https://advertising.amazon.com/blog/advertising-console-new-simplified-navigation

Best I can tell they moved the menu to the side from the top.  Apologies in advance to those of you who are going to be helping me find stuff when the change is implemented.

[notthatamanda]

Looks like the navigation changes are live.  Reports are hidden in the little three horizontal lines on the top left.  Is there a name for that three line dohicky?

I noticed the report button was missing so I went looking for it.  Haven't noticed anything else strange yet, although it seems slower than usual.

[Marti Talbott]

Looks like the navigation changes are live.  Reports are hidden in the little three horizontal lines on the top left.  Is there a name for that three line dohicky?

I noticed the report button was missing so I went looking for it.  Haven't noticed anything else strange yet, although it seems slower than usual.

Dohicky sounds right to me. I don't see anything different either. Nope, I'm not seeing the changes they show in the blog. Might be too soon.

[dgcasey]

This really isn't that new. I've been using the beta reports for a couple of months now. I hardly ever look at the reports page on the KDP dashboard.

[Marti Talbott]

This really isn't that new. I've been using the beta reports for a couple of months now. I hardly ever look at the reports page on the KDP dashboard.

Yes, but I'm not convinced the beta is accurate. For me it is annoying too, because it won't let me see all my books. (over 50). When I used the search by book function, it always comes up zero when I know I've had sales. Like all the new stuff, I probably just need to understand it better.

If you are in KU, can you tell me if the estimated KU royalties are included in the total amount for the month? If so, the total doesn't seem to add up correctly. When I subtract the KU royalties shown in the beta, the total for the month is lower than the day before.

Total sales for the month on the day before: $371.73
 total the next day: $395.71 - KU royalty $28.06 = $367.65
I had 8 paid sales that day. What am I doing wrong?

[Ghost5]

I think we're talking about two different things here. There's the KDP dashboard with its beta version (which has been available for a little while) and then there was the message at the top of the Amazon Advertising dashboard that indicated navigational changes were coming (are here, I think?). That message had a blog link that talked about the navigation changes on the ads dashboard.
 

Or maybe I'm confused as hell and am reading posts in this thread incorrectly. Anything is possible when I'm hurtling towards a deadline.

[notthatamanda]

I was talking about Amazon Advertising.

[Marti Talbott]

I was talking about Amazon Advertising.

My fault, I saw beta and got confused.

[notthatamanda]

I was talking about Amazon Advertising.

My fault, I saw beta and got confused.

No worries.