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Why we care about performance marketing

Martech

Since performance marketing campaigns look at actions (sales, conversions, leads) rather than superficial metrics (views, clicks, impressions) it’s theoretically a better approach. Even so, the scale of click fraud is so massive it inevitably impacts the amount you’ll pay for your desired action.

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Hackers Are Draining Your Ad Budget: What You Need to Know About Digital Ad Fraud

Hubspot

If your marketing team is paying for online advertising, you want and expect the views and clicks on your ads to be coming from humans -- real consumers who could potentially buy your product or service somewhere down the line. viewed or seen), without taking into account whether or not the ad gets clicked. How Click Fraud Works.

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How to Get Started with Performance Marketing

Outbrain

Here are some of the key metrics and KPIs commonly used in performance marketing: CPM. CPM stands for Cost Per Mille, or Cost Per Thousand, and it is the cost the advertiser pays for 1000 impressions of a digital ad. CPM does not measure an action taken by viewers; it only determines the price of getting the ad shown.