40 Advertising Metrics and KPIs You Can’t Afford to Ignore

When evaluating the success of your mobile marketing campaigns, you should track a variety of advertising metrics on dashboards. This will ensure ensure you’re meeting your goals and optimizing your marketing strategies.

Here’s a comprehensive list of advertising metrics that every advertiser should track.

1. Reach and Impressions

• Reach: The number of unique users who have seen the ad.
• Impressions: The total number of times the ad is displayed, regardless of whether it is clicked or not.

2. Engagement Metrics

• Clicks: The number of times users click on the ad.
• Click-Through Rate (CTR): The percentage of impressions that result in a click.
• Engagement Rate: The percentage of people who interact with the ad (likes, shares, comments, etc.).

3. Conversion Metrics

• Conversions: The number of times users complete a desired action (purchase, sign-up, download, etc.) after clicking on the ad.
• Conversion Rate: The percentage of clicks that result in a conversion. (Conversions/Clicks) * 100.
• Cost Per Conversion (CPC): The cost to acquire a conversion. Total Cost/Conversions.
• View-Through Conversions: Conversions that occur after a user views the ad but does not click it.

4. Cost Metrics

• Cost Per Mille (CPM): The cost per 1,000 impressions.
• Cost Per Click (CPC): The cost incurred for each click on the ad.
• Cost Per Action (CPA): The cost for each specified action (e.g., sale, sign-up).
• Cost Per Acquisition (CPA): How much it costs to acquire a customer or user.
• Return on Ad Spend (ROAS): Revenue generated from ads divided by the cost of the ads. (Revenue from Ads/Cost of Ads).

5. Quality and Relevance Metrics

• Ad Quality Score: A score given by ad platforms (like Google) based on the relevance and quality of the ad.
• Relevance Score: A score that indicates how well the ad is expected to perform based on the targeting and content.

6. Engagement Depth Metrics

• Average Session Duration: The average amount of time users spend on the site after clicking the ad.
• Pages Per Session: The average number of pages viewed during a session initiated by an ad click.
• Bounce Rate: The percentage of users who leave the site after viewing only one page.

7. Audience Metrics

• Demographics: Information on the age, gender, and other demographic data of the audience.
• Geographic Metrics: Data on where the audience is located.
• Device Metrics: Information on the devices used to view the ads (mobile, desktop, tablet).

8. Behavioral Metrics

• Frequency: The average number of times a user is exposed to the ad.
• Recency: The amount of time since the user last saw the ad.
• Churn Rate: The percentage of users who stop interacting with the ad or service over a given period.

9. Attribution Metrics

• First-Touch Attribution: Credit given to the first interaction a user has with the ad.
• Last-Touch Attribution: Credit given to the last interaction a user has before converting.
• Multi-Touch Attribution: Credit distributed across multiple interactions the user has before converting.

10. Brand Metrics

• Brand Awareness: Measures how many people are aware of the brand due to the ad.
• Brand Recall: Measures how many people remember the brand after viewing the ad.
• Brand Sentiment: Measures the audience’s sentiment towards the brand post-ad exposure.

11. Social Metrics

• Shares: The number of times the ad is shared on social media platforms.
• Likes/Reactions: The number of likes or reactions the ad receives on social media.
• Comments: The number of comments the ad receives on social media.

12. Video Ad Metrics

• Video Views: The number of times the video ad is watched.
• View Completion Rate: The percentage of viewers who watch the video ad to completion.
• Cost Per View (CPV): The cost incurred for each view of the video ad.

13. Email Ad Metrics

• Open Rate: The percentage of recipients who open the email.
• Click-To-Open Rate (CTOR): The percentage of opened emails that result in a click.
• Unsubscribe Rate: The percentage of recipients who unsubscribe after receiving the email ad.

14. Search Ad Metrics

• Search Impression Share: The percentage of impressions your ads receive compared to the total available impressions in the market.

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Originally published at https://www.blog.udonis.co