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Click-through rate (CTR) VS Effective cost per mille (eCPM)

Description
Click-through rate (CTR)
CTR is a marketing metric that measures how often a link, ad, or email is clicked in relation to how many times it’s shown.
Effective cost per mille (eCPM)
eCPM is the actual revenue earned by a publisher for every 1,000 ad impressions displayed on their app.
Target audience
Click-through rate (CTR)
Advertisers and publishers
Effective cost per mille (eCPM)
Publishers
Benefits
Click-through rate (CTR)

• Offers an easy way to identify your top-performing channels and creatives
• Indicates where a campaign isn’t having the desired impact
• Informs your Google Ads quality score

Effective cost per mille (eCPM)

• Provides a universal measurement of revenue per served impression
• Helps optimize revenue streams
• Good for evaluating the impact of app changes, and comparing against monthly/annual performance

How to calculate
Click-through rate (CTR)
Number of click-throughs
Total number of impressions
x 100
Effective cost per mille (eCPM)
Total earnings
Total number of impressions
x 1,000
How to improve it?
Click-through rate (CTR)

• Research your audience and build strong personas
• Invest in creatives that resonate with your audience – show how you solve their problems
• Continually test and refine your campaigns

Effective cost per mille (eCPM)

eCPM depends on multiple factors including ad placement, geography, user engagement, ad format and channel, and seasonality.

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