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impression

impression

12 4.2
One time an online ad or piece of content is shown to a user
  • noun
  • /ɪmˈprɛʃən/
  • Jargon
translation icon : impresión
  • 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.

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Examples

  • Chitika looked at "millions of online ad impressions seen between September 21st and 27th, 2012."

    Blog text (3)
  • For any sensible advertiser, impressions are merely a means to an end, not the end in themselves.

    Blog text (16)
  • We're saying this is how much an impression tends to be worth to people.

  • Scripts from two companies collect the page title as part of their impression reporting.

    Blog text (8)
  • It's not about how many impressions you get, it's how much attention you get.

  • And you will keep a detailed record of these impressions in a log.

  • There is a statistic that says it takes seven impressions before a person will make an impulse buy.

    Blog text (14)
  • The fraction of impressions that get clicked on is called the CTR (click-through rate).

    Academic text (2011)
  • The advertisement received a total of 100,000 impressions on various websites yesterday.

  • This campaign generated more impressions than any previous ad we have run.

Synonyms

view
vsimpression
  • Texting
80 3.0

The number of times an online item has been watched

counts passive displays on a page rather than active watching or loading

Compounds

A quick feeling from sight, sound, touch, taste or smell

trial impression
  • Specialized
7.7

A test print people use to check for mistakes before the final print

How Engaged

subscription
  • Texting
68 2.9
comment
1.0
like
113 1.8
engagement
  • Jargon
39 3.9
click
  • Texting
174 1.1
view
  • Texting
80 3.0
impression
  • Jargon
12 4.2

Surface Forms

impression singular
impressions plural

Morphology

impression = impress (semi-transparent) = im + press + ion

The noun is formed regularly from 'impress' by adding '-ion', though the digital metric is a modern extension.

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.