Cost Per Thousand
What is Cost Per Thousand?
Cost Per Thousand (CPM), also called Cost Per Mille, is a marketing term used to describe the price of 1,000 advertisement impressions on an advertiser's webpage. If a website publisher charges $2.00 CPM, that means an advertiser must pay $2.00 for every 1,000 impressions of its ad. The "M" in CPM represents the word "mille," which is Latin for "thousands."
Alternate names: Cost Per Mille, Cost Per Thousand ImpressionsHow to calculate Cost Per Thousand
Example
If an online advertiser pays a website $500 that ultimately generates 150,000 impressions, then the CPM would be $500/150,000 X 1,000 = $3.33. Alternatively, if a website charges $2.00 CPM, an advertiser with a budget of $1,000 per month, will get 500K impressions for their ad each month.
More about this metric
CPM is the most common method for pricing web ads. It's the cost a company has to pay for every 1,000 impressions it gets on a webpage they are advertising for. One impression is equal to a potential customer viewing an ad.
The cost will differ depending on the popularity of the keyword they wish to advertise and the site the advertiser is choosing to advertise on.
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Date created: Mar 1, 2019
Last updated: Dec 2, 2020
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