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What every marketer needs to know about programmatic advertising

Martech

Preferred deal is a one-on-one programmatic auction where publishers sell premium inventory at a set CPM price to a selected number of advertisers. These advertisers bid in real-time at or above the fixed CPM price. This is called CPM — cost per mille (mille is French for thousand). How much does it cost? Targeted device.

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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. a sale, sign-up, etc.),

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

Hubspot

The hackers create these bots to exploit the paid ad system, and they''ve been stealing billions of dollars of ad spend from businesses and agencies around the world. Any advertisements sold on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis fall into this bucket and are potentially liable for impression fraud.

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CPA – The Holy Grail of Online Advertising?

readwrite

online advertising is best for them – CPA, CPC, or CPM? data) / 1000 x CPM = Pricing benchmark. However, the recent issues of click fraud , click attack , ad tracking. wonder whether or not the CPC (Cost-Per-Click) advertising model that Google, Yahoo, MSN. out to be the equivalent of a very low CPM.

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How to Get Started with Performance Marketing

Outbrain

While major corporations can spend millions of dollars on branding, most businesses need to focus on the bottom line to stay profitable. You determine the action, then pay when that action has been completed – whether it’s a sale, lead, or click. Here are some of the key metrics and KPIs commonly used in performance marketing: CPM.