Bid
The maximum you are willing to pay for a click or a thousand impressions. Distinct from budget: the bid sets your price per unit, the budget sets how many units you buy.
Used in blog articles
Guides that use «Bid» most — the definition in practice.
- How the Ad Auction Works: eCPM, First-Price and Why Relevance Beats Budget28 mentions 7 min read
- CPC vs CPM vs CPA: Ad Pricing Models Explained12 mentions 6 min read
- Budgets, Pacing and Scaling: How to Grow a Campaign Without Breaking It10 mentions 7 min read
- Retargeting: How to Advertise to People Who Already Know You9 mentions 8 min read
- Crypto Ad Network Pricing Models Explained6 mentions 13 min read
- Ad Targeting That Works: Geo, Device, Keywords and Dayparting6 mentions 8 min read
Related terms
CPC
Cost per click — you pay only when someone clicks. The bid you set is the most you will pay for a click; the auction of…
CPM
Cost per mille — the price for one thousand impressions, paid whether or not anyone clicks. You are buying attention ra…
CPA
Cost per action — you pay only when a defined action happens: a sale, a signup, a deposit. The lowest-risk model for th…
eCPM
Effective cost per mille — what a placement actually earned per thousand impressions, whatever pricing model produced i…
First-price auction
An auction where the winner pays their own bid rather than one cent above the runner-up. Adgora runs a first-price auct…
Floor eCPM
A publisher-set minimum a bid must reach to win a zone. It protects a valuable placement from cheap fill — at the cost…
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Launch a campaign with a crypto budget, or add a zone and keep 70% of what it earns.
