# Glossary

# 📚 Statistics glossary

This glossary defines the key metrics and terms used throughout the Collective Audience™ platform's dashboards, detail views, and reports.


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## 📈 Impressions

### Impressions

The total number of times a content, creative, or campaign was displayed somewhere on a page.

### Visible Impressions

Subset of impressions where the creative met the MRC50 visibility criteria: 50% during 1 consecutive second at least.


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## 👆 Engagements

### First engagements (FUAs)

The number of first meaningful interactions (click, slider movement, input focus, media action) by a unique user during a session.

### Engagement rate

Ratio of first engagements to visible impressions.

### Engagements

The number of total meaningful interactions made by users collected in interactive content.


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## 🗳️ Votes

### First votes

The number of first choices made in interactive content (polls, quizzes, etc.) by a unique user during a session.

### Votes

The total number of choices made by users in interactive content (polls, quizzes, etc.).

### Vote rate

Ratio of votes to visible impressions.

### Vote rate per engaged users

Ratio of votes to first engagements.


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## 📤 Exits / clicks

### Clicks (exits)

The number of outbound clicks from the content or creative (e.g., to a landing page or external URL).

### CTR (click-through rate)

Ratio of clicks to visible impressions.

### Click rate per engaged users

Ratio of clicks to first engagements.


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## 🧾 Leads

### Opt-ins

User-submitted data from newsletter forms, checkboxes, etc.

### Form submits

Submission of lead generation forms (email, phone, etc.).


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## ⏱️ Time metrics

### Total time exposed

Cumulative time users spent viewing the content or creative.

### Average time exposed

Average time per exposed session.

### Average time by engagement

Average time for users who had a first engagement (FUA).

### Average time by click

Average time before an exit occurred.

### Time to complete

Time taken by users to complete all "bricks" of a creative.

### Time to engagement / click / complete

Time taken from load to respective interaction.


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## 🎬 Video metrics

### Video starts

Number of times a video began playback.

### Video quartiles

Number of views reaching 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% (Complete).

### Video completes rate

Ratio of complete views to video starts.

### Video progress (2, 5, 10, ..., 30%)

Custom progress points tracked within the video timeline.


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## 💰 Revenue & cost

### Spent

Cost for the advertiser or internal campaign manager.

### Revenue

Income generated by the publisher.

### CPM (Cost per mille)

Cost per 1000 impressions.

### vCPM

Cost per 1000 visible impressions

### eCPM / eVCPM

Effective CPM, calculated using total revenue and impressions/visible impressions.


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## 🎯 Objective monitoring

### Objective progress

Percentage of goal reached for a given campaign (if an objective is set).


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## ⚙️ Data scope terms

### Global

Cumulative stats since the creation of the object.

### Today / yesterday

Stats isolated for today or the previous day.

### Current version

Stats recorded since the last update of the object.


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📌 For additional clarification on any metric or data calculation, please contact your Account Manager.

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