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  "markdown": "Senior Vice President, Advertising, IMDb and Grand Challenge, Amazon.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-kotas-982694/\n\n## What Paul builds\n\n- [Amazon Ads API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-ads-api.md), graded C, 59/100, in Advertising \u0026 campaign operations. Amazon's REST API for its advertising products, covering campaigns, budgets, targets, audiences, creative assets and performance reports for sponsored ads and Amazon DSP. An Amazon Ads MCP Server in open beta exposes the same operations as tools. Senior Vice President, Advertising, IMDb and Grand Challenge, Amazon, researched 2026-10-29.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Andy Jassy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andy-jassy/), President and CEO, Amazon\n- [Jeff Bezos](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/jeff-bezos/), Founder and executive chairman, Amazon\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Paul Kotas?\n\nPaul Kotas is senior Vice President, Advertising, IMDb and Grand Challenge at Amazon.\n\n### What does Amazon make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Amazon Ads API from Amazon. Amazon's REST API for its advertising products, covering campaigns, budgets, targets, audiences, creative assets and performance reports for sponsored ads and Amazon DSP. An Amazon Ads MCP Server in open beta exposes the same operations as tools.\n\n### How are Paul's tools graded?\n\nAmazon Ads API is graded C, 59 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://advertising.amazon.com/\n- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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