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Marketplace Advertising Agency For B2B

Own Your Marketplace Channels Without Losing Control of Your Margins

Most agencies run your Amazon ads. We run your Amazon ads and fix what’s undermining them: your feed quality, SKU segmentation, listing content, and gross margin exposure before a dollar goes to waste.

Marketplace Strategy Built for the Realities of B2B Customers

OUR B2B MARKETPLACE ADVERTISING METHODOLOGY

Most ecommerce agencies bring a consumer playbook to B2B: optimize listings, run ads, chase ROAS. For a manufacturer with 30,000 SKUs, tiered contract pricing, and a distributor network built over decades, that playbook causes damage.

Directive Commerce manages Amazon advertising and Shopify Shop Ads for B2B manufacturers and distributors. We also handle the storefront infrastructure that determines whether those ads perform: feed optimization, product segmentation, listing health, and margin-aware bidding logic.

This is how we build a marketplace advertising powerhouse. It’s the combination most agencies don’t offer: performance advertising built on top of a clean catalog foundation, with SKU-level economics driving every decision.

Our B2B Marketplace Services

Your Procurement Buyers Are Already on Amazon Business.

MARKET RESEARCH
Most manufacturers don’t have a strategy. They have a listing. The difference determines whether your catalog drives revenue or hands margin to competitors you’ve never approved.
60%
of B2B Buyers Now Do More Than a Quarter of Their Purchasing on Amazon Business

Amazon Business now serves 97 of the Fortune 100 and recently surpassed $35 billion in annual GMV, with selection growing 25% year over year across industrial equipment, scientific supplies, healthcare, and facility maintenance. The platform is no longer a secondary channel. For B2B manufacturers, the question isn’t whether your buyers are there. It’s whether your catalog, pricing, and channel controls are built for it, and if you are leveraging their sponsored ads capabilities well for your brand goals. 

Source: Digital Commerce 360, B2B Buyer Survey

Are We the Right B2B Agency for You?

Directive Commerce works with B2B manufacturers and distributors who have real marketplace complexity — and need a partner who understands that growing digital revenue is only half the problem.

Our Process & Impact

HOW IT WORKS

Directive Commerce builds lifecycle programs through a structured process, from data audit to revenue-attributed execution.

Frequently Asked Questions About B2B Marketplace Agencies

FAQ
We manage Amazon advertising and the storefront health inputs that determine whether advertising performs. That means Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, and Sponsored Display campaigns, plus the feed quality, SKU segmentation, listing content, and audience targeting that sit underneath them. We are not a full-service Amazon account manager — we don’t handle fulfillment, vendor negotiations, or 1P relationship management. What we do is make sure your ads are built on a foundation that can actually convert, and that every dollar of spend is pointed at SKUs worth winning.
Because your feed is upstream of every advertising outcome. If your product data has missing attributes, incorrect GTINs, flat catalog architecture, or no pricing logic built in, your ads are competing at a structural disadvantage before bidding even starts. B2B manufacturers typically pull product data from an ERP or PIM that wasn’t designed for marketplace performance. We clean, enrich, and restructure that data so your catalog is competitive — then we build advertising on top of it.
Yes, but only if the storefront is built around how procurement buyers actually buy. We manage Shopify Shop Ads and optimize the storefront infrastructure behind them: catalog organization, B2B pricing configuration, product categorization, and listing content written for buyers evaluating on spec, not impulse. We work with your existing Shopify build, not from scratch
B2B buyers on Amazon Business behave differently than consumers. They search by part number, spec, and compatibility. They evaluate across multiple sessions before a purchase order gets approved. They buy in volume and reorder predictably. Our targeting frameworks account for procurement roles, purchase frequency, order size, and category behavior inside Amazon Business and not just consumer intent signals. We also build margin-aware bidding logic, so we’re not chasing ROAS at the expense of profitability.
Our primary focus is Amazon Business and Shopify for B2B, as these are the highest-impact platforms for our ICP. We also have a strategic point of view on Walmart Business and distributor portal marketplaces as expansion channels. The right marketplace mix depends on your catalog, customer base, and channel architecture, and we assess this as part of every engagement.
In a 1P relationship, Amazon buys your inventory wholesale and controls pricing, the Buy Box, and fulfillment. In a 3P relationship, you sell directly and own those decisions yourself. We don’t execute migrations between the two — but your account structure changes everything about how we advertise. On 1P, Amazon may be discounting at margins you didn’t set, which affects how we build bidding strategy. On 3P, we can implement margin-aware bidding, MAP-aligned feed logic, and SKU-level spend decisions. Understanding which model you’re on is part of every audit we run before a campaign goes live.

Build a Marketplace Presence Worth Owning.

B2B manufacturers without a coordinated channel strategy leave revenue on the table and create risk across pricing, margins, and distributor relationships. Directive Commerce builds the infrastructure to own your channels before that damage compounds.