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What every marketer needs to know about programmatic advertising

Martech

Programmatic direct is buying a guaranteed number of ad impressions on specific websites or from selected publishers. 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.

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Why we care about performance marketing

Martech

It’s often associated with pay-per-click (PPC) models on search engines (where advertisers pay for clicks versus impressions). A (short) list of why ad fraud happens: Bots simulate real user traffic on websites or apps to generate ad impressions. Domain spoofing imitates a premium website (e.g.,

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What Is Cost Per Click (CPC)? Definition, Calculation, Advantages & Examples

Martech Advisor

Cost Per Click (CPC) Calculation. Click Fraud and Ways to Avoid It. What Is Cost Per Click (CPC)? A form of digital advertising, cost-per-click (CPC) is the actual price you pay a publisher every time an online user clicks on your ad. Conversely, marketers using paid search also measure impressions.

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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. How Impression Fraud Works. How Impression-Based Ads Are Supposed to Work.

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CPA – The Holy Grail of Online Advertising?

readwrite

online advertising is best for them – CPA, CPC, or CPM? property can bear the risk: Finding pricing benchmark ; Numbers of impressions (to be sold or from the past. data) / 1000 x CPM = Pricing benchmark. property can bear the risk: Finding pricing benchmark ; Numbers of impressions (to be sold or from the past.

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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.