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PPC, CPM, UV, PI, PV, CPC, CPA, CTR | Online Advertising Acronyms

Having an efficient online marketing strategy is core for businesses with an online presence. Measuring the impact of your marketing strategy is as important as implementing it and it requires understanding of the basic advertising terms used by marketers nowadays.

In this article we have compiled a list of online marketing terms and acronyms that will help you to properly measure the impact of your online marketing activities. Some of them are commonly used in digital advertising and others more specific for display advertising.

UV: Unique Visitors

Number of distinct individuals visiting pages of a website during a specific time period, regardless of how often they visit.

PI: Per Inquiry (Advertising)

Per Inquiry, also known as cost per inquiry, is a form of performance-based marketing that has a variety of channels (TV, radio, print, and Internet) to create a custom campaign that brings you incoming leads while giving you mass exposure.

PV: Page View

In web analytics page view is the number of web pages viewed during a specific time period.

CPM: Cost Per Thousands (Impressions)

Cost of 1,000 advertisement impressions on a website.

CPC: Cost Per Click

The price advertisers pay every time somebody clicks on their online ads.

PPC: Pay Per Click

It has the same meaning that CPC but used with different acronyms.

CTR: Click Through Rate

Google defines it as “the number of clicks that your ad receives divided by the number of times your ad is shown: clicks ÷ impressions = CTR. For example, if you had 5 clicks and 1,000 impressions, then your CTR would be 0.5%.”

CPA: Cost Per Acquisition

The price an advertiser pays for each conversion such as impressions, clicks, form submissions,  downloads, etc.

RON: Run of Network

It refers to a form of advertising in which advertisers are not able to choose the type of site where their online ads will be run.

ROC: Run Of Channel

It refers to online campaigns run on multiple channels of a specific publisher.

ROS: Run Of Site

When an online advertising campaign or ad targets every page of a specific site.

SOV: Share Of Voice

It means the share of total advertising exposure that a business gets in comparison to its competitors within a specific time frame.

RTB: Real-Time Bidding

It refers to the buying and selling of online ad impressions via real-time auction occurring during the time a webpage takes to load.

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