How does Smart CPM help you spend less on traffic? This pricing algorithm automatically competes for the hottest placements and sets winning bids to deliver ads to your target audiences. And it will never exceed the bid you set.
Smart CPM
Let’s kick off with the basics. Smart CPM is a pricing model based on an intelligent algorithm. It enters auctions, picks bids, and wins ad views at a better price. The algorithm will repeatedly adjust the payout amount keeping it at the most competitive level.
Top reasons to try
- Start campaigns twice faster: smart algorithms will automatically assess the competition and set bids
- Save precious hours on bidding adjustment
- Spend safely, especially, when you’re on a budget
- Get enough ad impressions without risks of overspending
- Optimize traffic costs at the start
- Get insights on how to selectively improve pricing in the futur
How does Smart CPM save your money?
You define the CPM cap, so as to say the maximum bid you’re ready to pay for 1,000 impressions. The algorithm starts seeking the best-matching traffic and bidding to win in the auctions.
The point is that you won’t have to refresh bids several times to ensure you’re getting enough traffic, and the bid required to win the auction will usually be lower than the cap you set.
A brief how-to part: How to enable Smart CPM
From your account, hit Campaigns > Create and scroll down to Pricing type. Pick CPM and put a tick near the Smart CPM. This will enable our algorithm to bid for you automatically.
Then, enter the bid you’re ready to pay for your target traffic. This will limit Smart CPM in spending. However, the algorithm will always look for opportunities to place a lower bid needed to win the competition. And it will never get higher than your maximum.
How’s better, with or without Smart CPM?
It’s time to compare the two pricing models. You’re familiar with CPM — it’s nothing but paying for 1,000 ad impressions. It’s you who needs to pick the most relevant bid manually. Not once. Your bidding tactics will change several times, and with each new attempt to outcompete other advertisers, there will be a risk of losing traffic volumes. But in this case, it’s you who holds the wheel.
Traditional CPM bidding specifics
- Manual settings demand time and strategic craft
- Traffic performance vastly varies, and you need to test traffic slices carefully
- You can test new geos and traffic slices with minimum bids only
- When you know exactly how traffic will convert, you can place a fixed bid and get exactly what you expect
Smart CPM
This bidding type offers you a more automated yet money-saving approach. Adsterra’s intelligent algorithm will choose the optimal bid an unlimited number of times. Risks are lower, since the whole process is automated. And you still can select the top-matching placements to add them to a whitelist later on (in case, you’ve set up a tracker, of course).
Focusing on the best-performing traffic
Smart CPM fits perfectly for obtaining more ad views from high-performing ad placements. Let’s make it more clear.
After running ads for a while, you can collect stats on how different ad placements perform (in case you added a specific token in the landing URL, of course.) What you need to do is to increase bids for placements that bring you more profits.
Open your campaign from the My Campaigns tab. Scroll down till you see the Advanced settings section. Find Custom Bid. Here you can enter the IDs of the placements (with or without geos) you want to get more traffic from and place an increased bid. This approach can drastically improve the campaign results making you greater ROIs.
Smart CPM will carry on bidding automatically, bypassing your custom bids. Profit! The trick works in reverse, by the way. You can fix minimal bids for those sources that send the least profitable traffic.
What to read to launch perfect campaigns?
You may now feel a bit confused looking for “what to start with?” And you’re right. This guide uncovers a small piece of campaign setup magic. Let’s fix it right now. Adsterra experts have crafted detailed guides to help you out at any stage of your marketing strategy within our ad network. Give them a read.
To conclude
With Smart CPM, you pay the least possible price to outcompete your nearest rivals for traffic. But what if your competitors, all as one, will also apply Smart CPM? The same thing: our intelligent algorithms will pick the winning bid among the competing ones while not allowing any of the advertisers to overpay.
Summarizing, here are the core advantages you can now enjoy and benefit from.
- Spend tangibly less time on bidding strategy
- Control spending on traffic while getting the same volumes and quality
- Enhance the efficiency of tests, campaign optimization and scaling
- Use combo settings to control daily spending or selectively increase bids for the best-performing traffic sources