impression
- noun
- /ɪmˈprɛʃən/
- Jargon
- Impressions: When a website displays an ad to a unique user, it counts as an impression.
We're saying this is how much an impression tends to be worth to people.
- We're saying this is how much an impression tends to be worth to people.
- They, it's millions and millions of impressions on the Internet before it even aired.
- Half a billion people saw impressions from the minimalist.
- It's not about how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.
Examples
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Chitika looked at "millions of online ad impressions seen between September 21st and 27th, 2012."
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For any sensible advertiser, impressions are merely a means to an end, not the end in themselves.
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We're saying this is how much an impression tends to be worth to people.
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Scripts from two companies collect the page title as part of their impression reporting.
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It's not about how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.
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And you will keep a detailed record of these impressions in a log.
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There is a statistic that says it takes seven impressions before a person will make an impulse buy.
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The fraction of impressions that get clicked on is called the CTR (click-through rate).
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The advertisement received a total of 100,000 impressions on various websites yesterday.
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This campaign generated more impressions than any previous ad we have run.
Synonyms
The number of times an online item has been watched
Compounds
- Specialized
A test print people use to check for mistakes before the final print
How Engaged
- Texting
- Jargon
- Texting
- Texting
- Jargon
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Impression comes from a Latin root meaning 'to press' and comes from the world of printing, where each press made a copy. In advertising an impression is one time an ad is shown — a single 'mark' or view — so advertisers count how many impressions an ad gets.