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Effective Cost per Thousand Impressions (eCPM) measures the cost per 1,000 impressions, helping evaluate advertising cost efficiency at scale. This metric provides a standardized way to compare costs across different campaigns, ad groups, and targeting strategies regardless of their total impression volume. By calculating costs on a per-thousand basis, eCPM enables advertisers to make data-driven decisions about budget allocation and optimization opportunities.

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  • About
  • Technical Details
What is "ECPM"?
ECPM helps evaluate the cost efficiency of your advertising reach by measuring how much you pay per thousand impressions. This metric is crucial for comparing costs across different targeting strategies and optimizing budget allocation.
Example: A brand compares ECPM across different campaigns to identify which audience targeting approaches deliver the most cost-effective reach on Reddit.

Visualizations

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    Used to show a simple Metric or to draw attention to one key number.

How to track ECPM in Databox?

Databox is a business analytics software that allows you to track and visualize your most important metrics from any data source in one centralized platform.

To track ECPM using Databox, follow these steps:

  1. 1
    Connect Reddit Ads that contains the metric you want to track
  2. 2
    Select the metric you want to track from the list of available metrics
  3. 3
    Drag and drop the selected metric onto your dashboard
  4. 4
    Watch your dashboard populate in seconds
  5. 5
    Put ECPM on the Performance screen
  6. 6
    Get ECPM performance daily with Scorecards or as a weekly digest
  7. 7
    Set Goals to track and improve performance of ECPM
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Reddit Ads ECPM included in Dashboard Templates 1

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    Reddit Ads Performance Overview

    Reddit Ads dashboard template provides you with insights about ad engagement, click activity, money spent and more. You can discover which campaigns need improvement.

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General

  • Description
    Effective Cost per Thousand Impressions (eCPM) measures the cost per 1,000 impressions, helping evaluate advertising cost efficiency at scale. This metric provides a standardized way to compare costs across different campaigns, ad groups, and targeting strategies regardless of their total impression volume. By calculating costs on a per-thousand basis, eCPM enables advertisers to make data-driven decisions about budget allocation and optimization opportunities.
  • Category
    Cost
  • Subcategory
    Impression Cost Efficiency
  • Date Added
    2025-02-17

Specification

  • Metric Type
    general
  • Dimensional
    No
  • Decimal Digits
    Yes
  • Currency Units
    Yes
  • Granularities
    Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and all-time.
  • Custom Relative Periods
    Yes
  • Data Availability
    At sync, it ranges from 18 months ago to now.
  • Retroactive Data Updates
    Newly synced data is merged with existing data, replacing values for matching periods.
  • Future Data Available
    No

Visualization

  • Cumulative Graph
    Yes
  • Favorable Trend
    increasing
  • Media Creatives
    No
  • Forecasts
    Yes
  • Benchmarks
    Yes

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