Amazon offers multiple tools to its sellers to help them achieve the best results within its platform. However, there are tools that are exclusive to those sellers who have their brand registered in the Amazon Brand Registry. That is why we have decided to create this guide where we will teach you everything you need to know about the benefits offered by this program and the steps to follow to register your brand.
What is the Amazon Brand Registry?
The Amazon Brand Registry is a program developed for brand owners and manufacturers who sell on marketplaces and through which they can register their brand. In addition, they will be able to access exclusive benefits and tools that will not only help protect your brand but also improve the results of your sales on the platform.
What are its benefits?
Protect your brand
Amazon has automatic protection systems that use the information you provide about your brand to detect and remove suspicious or inaccurate content that may affect the image of your brand and that of your products. The more information you provide to Amazon, the more Brand Registry will help you protect and improve your brand service.
Access A+ content
By registering your brand in Amazon Brand Registry you will be able to have access to A+ content. This type of content will allow you to describe your products in a different way since you can include your brand story, enhanced images and additional text blocks.
Using this type of content effectively can help you increase your conversion rate, generate more traffic to your products, and increase sales.
Improve your ads
Thanks to Amazon Brand Registry you can improve your ads through Sponsored Brands. These are cost-per-click ads that allow you to include your brand logo, a headline, and the products you want to promote. Sponsored Brands ads also stand out for appearing in shopping results, helping you increase your brand visibility.
Access the Brand Analysis report
Amazon offers its sellers with registered trademarks access to the “Brand Analysis” tool. This tool helps Amazon sellers make strategic decisions based on statistical information about their products, ensuring that the results of your advertising campaigns are even more accurate.
To access this tool, all you have to do is go to the “Brands” tab of Seller Central.
Take advantage of the new incentives for sellers
If you are a new Amazon seller and decide to sign up for the Amazon Brand Registry, you can receive up to €45,000 in bonuses and discounts. One of these bonuses is to receive €180 in Amazon Vine credits. This program invites your customers to leave reviews of your products so that new potential customers can make informed purchasing decisions.
Create your “store” on Amazon
If you have your trademark you can create your own “store” or Amazon Store This is a page within Amazon exclusive to your brand and through it you can have your own web address. Thanks to this tool you will be able to create brand awareness and gain more visibility.
Find out how you can create your own store on Amazon by visiting our blog “Amazon Store: what it is and how to get the most out of it”
How to register your brand in Amazon Brand Registry?
First: Check the requirements that Amazon requires
Before you can register your brand with the Amazon Brand Registry, you must ensure that your trademark is actively registered in each of the countries in which you would like to have a trademark application through Amazon IP Accelerator.
On the other hand, your trademark must also be in the form of a text-based mark (dominant) or an image-based mark with words, numbers, or letters (graphic mark). You should also keep in mind that depending on the place where you register your trademark, there may be different classifications of types of brand models.
Amazon also indicates that it only accepts marks that have been issued by government trademark agencies of the following countries: United States, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Australia, India, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Singapore, Spain, The Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Poland, Egypt, the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates.
What should I do if my trademark is registered with the World Intellectual Property Organization?
If your trademark is registered with WIPO, you must send the trademark number assigned to you by the national trademark office, since this number may be different from the number assigned by WIPO
Does Amazon accept trademarks registered by the European Union Intellectual Property Office?
Yes, and to register your brand in the Amazon Brand Registry you only have to select EUIPO as trademark registrar when filling out your application.
Second: Log in to Amazon Brand Registry
If your brand meets the aforementioned requirements, you can enter your Amazon seller or vendor account to access the services and benefits of the Amazon Brand Registry.
Keep in mind that the only people authorized to carry out the trademark registration are the people who own the registered trademarks. In addition, they are the only ones who will be able to create additional accounts so that other people can access this platform.
Third: Register your account
Now that you have logged in to your Amazon Seller or Amazon Vendor account, you will need to enroll your brand, but to do so you will need to provide the following information:
- Your brand name and what is on your products or packaging.
- Registration number of the trademark that has been provided by the intellectual property office.
- List of the category of products that are associated with your brand.
After you submit this information, Amazon will review it and validate that the information is correct, as well as verify that you have the rights to the trademark. As part of the verification process, Amazon will contact the brand owner, who will receive a verification code. That code must then be sent back to Amazon in order to finish the registration process.
And just by following these 3 steps you will be able to access all the exclusive advantages and benefits that Amazon offers you when you register your brand in the brand registry.
At Década Studio we help you register your brand in the Amazon Brand Registry
If you still have questions about how to register your brand in the Amazon Brand Registry, Década Studio has a specialized marketplace team ready to advise you throughout the process. In addition, to help you solve all your doubts about how to get the most out of the exclusive tools that you can access when registering your brand.
I'm Paola Veintimilla, Marketing Assistant at Década Studio. I like to find creative solutions to problems and I am always looking for new challenges. For me, social networks are a great tool not only to promote brands, but they are also an opportunity to connect with the audience. But in my spare time I'm just a cat lover.
