Impressions count the total number of times content was displayed — including multiple views by the same person. An impression ≠ attention; a 0.5-second scroll past a post counts as an impression on most platforms. In B2B paid advertising, impression metrics help calculate brand awareness frequency (how many times has your target audience seen your ad). For organic content, impressions are a reach indicator, not a quality signal.
For example, if your LinkedIn ad is shown 100,000 times to 20,000 unique people in your target account list, you have 100,000 impressions and 20,000 reach — a frequency of 5 times per person over the campaign period.
We use impression metrics for brand awareness benchmarking in ABM campaigns — tracking how much 'air cover' our ads are providing for the sales team's outbound.
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