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What is CPM (Cost Per Mile, Cost Per Thousand Impressions)?

Martech Advisor

Cost Per Thousand or Cost Per Mile (CPM) is defined as the price of reaching one thousand impressions for your ad on a webpage. An accurate calculation of CPM can help you understand which ads are performing well, which ads aren’t, and how you can improve your marketing outcomes.

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CPM cheat sheet: Guidelines to programmatic bidding

Choozle

We want to make it a cinch for you and your team to get up to speed on all things CPM. Marketing cheat sheet: What is CPM? Since programmatic advertising is conducted in an auction environment (AKA real-time bidding ), the CPMs set by the advertiser during ad group creation is your base and maximum bids in the ad auction.

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Navigating CTV Advertising: Taking Control in a Fragmented Landscape

Choozle

According to a recent report from Nielsen , US marketers reallocated 45% of their ad budgets to CTV in 2023. Peter Crofut of the Media Exchange emphasizes that the CTV industry is still relatively young and lacks significant mergers and acquisitions, a trend expected in a rapidly expanding market.

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What is an Ad Exchange and How Does it Work?

Stevens & Tate

Before ad exchanges began popping up, the only way for marketers to purchase ad space online was directly through publishers. This process was not very cost-effective. As new ways to purchase advertising space online have popped up, including programmatic ads and RTB (real-time bidding) ads, so have ad exchanges.

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What every marketer needs to know about programmatic advertising

Martech

This year programmatic digital display ad spending will hit $115.23 billion, and more than 90% of all digital display ad dollars will transact programmatically, according to eMarketer. Because it can deliver everything traditional media ad buying can’t and more. Traditional media ad buying is a time- and labor-intensive process.

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A Plain English Guide to Real Time Bidding

Hubspot

Since its inception in 2009, real-time bidding (RTB) has become one of the most popular ways to purchase ad inventory online. An impression, which is when an ad is displayed on a user's screen, is the currency used in RTB. Advertisers know this as the cost per mille (CPM) and place their bids based on the value of each impression.

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Understanding the Basics of Bid Shading

QuanticMind

In the formative years of programmatic advertising , second-price auctions were the industry standard—a crucial component in helping build the online ad marketplace as we know it today. Much like eBay , ad exchanges saw second-price auctions as a better, more accurate valuation of publishers’ inventory. Enter bid shading.