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  • cpm
    cpm
    cost per thousand.
  • CPM
    CPM
    cost per thousand.
  • c.p.m.
    c.p.m.
    abbreviation
    common particular meter.

cpm

1 American  
Commerce.
  1. cost per thousand.


CPM 2 American  
  1. Commerce. cost per thousand.

  2. Critical Path Method.


c.p.m. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Music. common particular meter.

  2. cycles per minute.


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Because I know a ton of people in the space do that — where they're looking at CPM, CTR, all this stuff that I don't even know what it is.

From Salon May 15, 2022

This may be how CPM and the Sun-Times could stand to succeed.

From The Verge Oct. 19, 2021

If our ads become significantly less performant over time, then you can expect that will drive down prices and not drive up prices, at least on a CPM basis, right?

From The Verge Aug. 11, 2021

“That’s collectively weighing on demand for new cars,” said Rohit Savant, the director of research at the commodities research firm CPM Group.

From New York Times Dec. 13, 2018

CPM is ad-industry jargon for “cost per mille”—that is, the cost an advertiser pays for 1,000 people to view a given ad.

From Slate Feb. 28, 2018

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