In the early stages of media planning, it's important to forecast overall advertisiing spend. Advertisers can forecast from ad spend, through impressions and clicks, all the way down to the estimate conversions if they have enough in-house experience and historical data. The first step in forecasting advertising performance is to understand how many impressions your advertising investment can purchase in each advertising channel.
To get started, enter your estimated advertising spend below, choose the industry category that best fits your business and immediately see a high-level estimate of how many impressions you could buy.
Spend: Spend is the net advertising cost. This does not include management fees, creative or anything else - purely the advertising hard cost.
Impressions: Impressions are the amount of times ads appeared, or were shown, in the given channel. Essentially how many ads were served by the advertising spend.
Click-through Rate (CTR): CTR is the rate at which impressions result in a viewer of the ad clicking on it. If 100 ads are shown and 1 person clicks, that is a 1% CTR. Clicks / Impressions = CTR
Clicks: Clicks are the amount of people who clicked on, or took an action on an ad. The click metric is also commonly associated with the number of website visitors.
Cost-per-click (CPC): Cost-per-click is the average amount paid in advertising spend per click on the ad. Spend / Clicks = CPC
Conversions: Conversions - which could be sales, leads, downloads, email opt-ins - is the total volume of conversion actions attributed to the ad spend.
Conversion Rate: Conversion rate is the rate at which a click turns into a conversion action such as a lead form submission, ebook download, email opt-in, sale, etc. Conversions / Clicks = Conversion Rate
Cost / Conv.: Cost-per-conversion is the average amount of advertising spend invested per resulting conversion action. Spend / Conversions = Cost-Per-Conversion
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