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Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU) VS Effective cost per mille (eCPM)

Description
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)
ARPDAU shows how much money, on average, a single active user generates in a day. (You define what counts as an active user.)
Effective cost per mille (eCPM)
eCPM is the actual revenue earned by a publisher for every 1,000 ad impressions displayed on their app.
Target audience
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)
App owners, marketers, and product managers
Effective cost per mille (eCPM)
Publishers
Benefits
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)

• Shows the impact of your monetization efforts in real time
• Shows how revenue responds to changes, such as a new campaign or a price drop
• Focuses on active users already demonstrating engagement, rather than those with less potential value

Effective cost per mille (eCPM)

• Provides a universal measurement of revenue per served impression
• Helps optimize revenue streams
• Good for evaluating the impact of app changes, and comparing against monthly/annual performance

How to calculate
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)
Total daily revenue
Total active daily users
Effective cost per mille (eCPM)
Total earnings
Total number of impressions
x 1,000
How to improve it?
Average revenue per daily active user (ARPDAU)

• Boost ad engagement through offerwalls or rewarded ads
• Delight and entice specific user segments with carefully targeted offers and rewards to drive in-app purchases

Effective cost per mille (eCPM)

eCPM depends on multiple factors including ad placement, geography, user engagement, ad format and channel, and seasonality.

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