Advertising

Attribution window

The period after seeing or clicking an ad within which a conversion is credited to it, such as seven-day click and one-day view. Longer windows flatter results. Always state the window when reporting, and use the same one month to month.


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Bid strategy

How the platform spends your budget in the auction: highest volume, cost per result goal, bid cap or value optimisatio…

Boosting

Paying to promote an existing post from the app itself. Quick, but deliberately limited: fewer objectives, coarse targ…

Budget pacing

How evenly spend is spread across a day or campaign. Platforms deliberately hold back budget for better opportunities …

Campaign objective

What you tell the platform to optimise for: awareness, traffic, engagement, leads, app promotion or sales. This choice…

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