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What was the last time you clicked on an ad?
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It's not about clicks, it's about attribution. That is also why they all want to track you. It's not just about targeting ads. If you buy something in a webshop and the advertiser can show that you saw a (related) ad for that somewhere in the last X days/weeks then the sale is attributed to the advertiser and they get paid a fee. That is why they want to track anything and everything. The more data they collect, the higher the chance they can show attribution. No clicks required.
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong but is there any source for this? Because every ad partner I've ever seen has been pretty explicit about getting paid per interaction.
How many times do you order a pizza when the pizza ad appears on tv?
It’s not about getting your instant interaction, it’s about getting repetitive exposure. Clicks are even more valuable though.
Why ad partners deal only with clicks? I don’t know. It’s how it’s started years ago and no one has been able to change it I guess.
Clicks are a pretty good way to measure engagement of your audience, even if your only goal is just to build brand recognition. If you're showing tons of people an ad, and no one's clicking, it's probably because they DGAF about what you're showing them and the impact is very minimal.
Platforms like Facebook and Yelp definitely will sometimes try to push you to a package which is pay-per-impression, and they have a whole presentation which tries to make it sound like it's worth it, but the times that I've analyzed their performance it's been ridiculously bad. Like, "kind of looks like every click we're getting is an accidental click" bad. I looked at our Facebook campaign for a company I worked for once and we were literally paying $300-500 per conversion with every other part of the pipeline already set up and tested. They just sell you on pay-per-impression packages and then show your ads to a ton of people who scroll past them instantly. In my opinion.