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Why You are Probably Analyzing the Performance of Your Social Content Incorrectly

Ignite Social Media

In many cases, these platforms have dedicated companies to measure performance like Nielsen for TV and BPA Worldwide for print. If your aim is driving impressions, pay close attention to your CPM. For example, if your company sells fruit, categorize your posts based on the type (i.e. Driving engagements? Driving traffic?

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Social Media Definitions: KPIs and Other Valuable Terms to Know

Ignite Social Media

Cost-Per-Thousand Impressions (CPM): Also called cost per mille, the aggregate cost for one thousand impressions, calculated by dividing the amount spent by the number of impressions and then multiplying by 1000. Reach Impressions & CPM Frequency Ad Recall Brand Lift Video Views Video view rate. Middle-Funnel: Consideration.

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Monitoring vs Analytics [Infographic]

Buzz Marketing for Technology

I tried to go a layer or two deeper than some of the major analyst firms as well so you get a broader spectrum companies that would include some of the smaller firms that normally don’t get mentioned. Which sounded like Social CRM meets Systems Integration company to me. They don’t take a “credit card approach to monitoring”.