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Amazon Review Requests ads - paid review prompts open in US beta

Max

October 7, 2026

4 min

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COO at Nova Analytics

Max leads operations at Nova Analytics, helping Amazon sellers optimize their business performance through data-driven insights and strategic automation.

Quick Summary

•Review Requests ads open in a US open beta in late October 2026
•The ad invites recent buyers to rate or review while they shop on Amazon
•Only products with fewer than 1,000 ratings and reviews qualify, and campaigns pause at 1,000
•Amazon says products in its test got three times as many reviews per week

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Amazon Ads will open Review Requests, a paid ad that asks recent buyers to rate or review a product, in a US open beta in late October 2026, according to Amazon's announcement. Only products with fewer than 1,000 ratings and reviews qualify. Amazon announced it on September 29, and seller coverage picked up on October 5 and 6 as agencies started testing what it means.

What Amazon has confirmed

Review Requests ads at a glance, from Amazon Ads, read on October 7, 2026.
Announced	September 29, 2026, at Amazon's unBoxed conference
Open beta	United States, late October 2026
Who sees the ad	Customers who recently bought the product
Eligible products	Fewer than 1,000 total ratings and reviews
When it stops	Pauses automatically at 1,000 ratings and reviews
Account rule	Advertising account in good standing, no active policy violations
Where to build it	Amazon Ads Agent and the Amazon Ads Unified API

Amazon says products in its early test received three times as many ratings and reviews per week as before the test. LiquidationOH reports that the test ran from June 3 to June 21, 2026. Amazon also says more marketplaces are planned, without dates.

You pay for the ask, not the review

The ad reaches verified buyers, and they decide whether to answer and what to write. A low-rated product can collect low ratings faster. Amazon has not said whether a campaign guarantees any review, a point My Amazon Guy also raised.

Free Request a Review button compared with Review Requests ads.
	Request a Review button	Review Requests ads
Cost	Free	Bid and budget, like other ads
Where the buyer sees it	An email from Amazon	On Amazon pages while shopping
Scale	One order at a time	All recent buyers of the product
Limit	One request per order	Products under 1,000 reviews

What a review costs per unit

The useful number is campaign spend divided by the units you sell, because that is what comes out of margin. The figures below are made up to show the arithmetic. They are not market data.

Illustration only. Your spend, review rate and volume will differ.
Campaign spend in a month	$90.00
New ratings and reviews that month	30
Cost per new review ($90 / 30)	$3.00
Units sold that month	450
Cost per unit sold ($90 / 450)	$0.20

In this example each new review costs $3.00, and the campaign takes $0.20 off every unit sold that month. On a slow seller with 50 units a month, the same $90 would cost $1.80 per unit. Compare that with what the product earns per unit before you set a budget.

Who should test it first

New launches with steady sales but few reviews, where trust holds back conversion.
Products with a good return rate and rating, since more ratings make the existing average harder to move.
Not for listings with open quality issues. Fix the product first, or the ad speeds up the bad reviews.

Reviews on shared variations also feed the whole family, see Amazon's review sharing rules for variations. For the other paid route to early reviews, read the true cost of Amazon Vine.

Seeing the spend next to profit

Nova shows ad spend per product next to the product's P&L, so a new campaign's cost appears against the margin it comes out of. See Amazon PPC analytics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about this topic

A campaign type from Amazon Ads that shows a rating or review invitation to customers who recently bought your product, while they shop on Amazon. You set bids and budgets like other Amazon Ads campaigns.

Amazon says the open beta starts in the United States in late October 2026. Amazon announced it on September 29, 2026, and says more marketplaces are planned.

Products with fewer than 1,000 total ratings and reviews, from registered sellers and vendors whose advertising account is in good standing with no active policy violations. Campaigns pause automatically once a product reaches 1,000.

No. The ad invites a verified buyer to rate or review. The buyer decides whether to respond and what to write.

Amazon has not said so. The Request a Review button on the order page in Seller Central still sends a free email for a single order.

Verified Sources

All information verified from official Amazon sources and trusted industry analysts as of publication date.

Deep Dive: Related Guides

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→ Amazon Vine program: the true-profit cost in 2026

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Amazon Review Requests ads - paid review prompts open in US beta

Quick Summary

What Amazon has confirmed

You pay for the ask, not the review

What a review costs per unit

Who should test it first

Seeing the spend next to profit

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Amazon Review Requests ads?

When do Review Requests ads launch?

Which products qualify for Review Requests?

Does a Review Requests ad guarantee a review?

Is the free Request a Review button going away?

Verified Sources

Deep Dive: Related Guides

What Amazon has confirmed

You pay for the ask, not the review

What a review costs per unit

Who should test it first

Seeing the spend next to profit