Glossary
One term per page, in plain English, linked to the Lab tests and guides that use it.
A
B
- Bid modifier
A multiplier on the bid when a term matches. Unmatched requests keep the original bid. Not the same list of keys as targeting.
C
- Campaign creative association
The join between a campaign and a creative. Rotate by adding or pausing associations. The last active association cannot be paused or removed.
- Click token
Redirect plumbing that attributes a later conversion. It is not an exchange delivery click. A creative can bill clicks and mint zero tokens.
- Click-through rate
Clicks divided by impressions. On remnant display it mostly measures how clicky the inventory was, not whether a person arrived.
- Click-to-page-view
The share of exchange clicks that become a first-party landing visit. Clicks and visits are different meters.
- Conversion event
A buyer-site action Adprime Zero can ingest and attribute. Not an exchange click, and not a page view.
- Coverage verdict
Whether a Supply Audit run actually reviewed your delivery. Only covered counts. Zero findings on an incomplete scan is not a clean result.
- CPA
Cost per acquisition. Spend divided by attributed conversions, or an optimization goal that needs a real conversion event.
- CPC
Cost per click. A ratio you can compute from spend and clicks, or a pricing mode. On remnant display the click is a weak object.
- CPM
Cost per thousand impressions. The usual buying unit for remnant display. Not a quality score.
- Creative
One approved ad. A campaign can rotate several creatives. The image is not the campaign, and it is not the landing page.
- Creative add-on
A vendor tag attached to a creative on the exchange. HUMAN FraudSensor is vendor 7, add-on 44, $0.05 CPM. Without an add-on, invalid impressions stay zero.
D
- Daily cap
The most a campaign or account may spend in a UTC day. Optional lifetime caps must not be silently rewritten as one day of budget.
- Dayparting
Restricting bids by local time of week. It lives on bid modifiers, counted in minutes, and is not in the targeting-key catalog.
- Deal
A packaged supply path with a deal ID, often a private marketplace or preferred arrangement. Not the open remnant firehose.
- Delivery modifier
A budget-weight object across supply segments. It allocates spend. It does not scale the bid the way a bid modifier does.
- Destination
The landing URL a creative clicks through to, plus the review of that URL. Separate from creative review.
- Display ads
Banner and similar visual units bought on impressions, often 300x250 on the open exchange. Not search. Not a Meta feed unit.
- DSP
Demand-side platform. Software that bids on exchanges. Adprime Zero is prepaid agent advertising that buys through its own exchange account, not a self-serve DSP UI.
E
- Exchange
A marketplace that runs auctions between publishers (or SSPs) and buyers. Inventory source is how we name which exchange a campaign may buy.
F
- Funding intent
A durable prepaid-funding request. The agent gets a hosted URL. The human logs in, reviews the amount, and pays. Credit lands after the provider confirms.
I
- Impression
One served ad opportunity you were billed for, at the grain the report defines. Not a viewable impression unless a vendor measured it.
- Insertion order
A booked media contract. Adprime Zero first tests do not require one. Prepaid wallet and a daily cap replace the IO for that path.
- Invalid traffic
Impressions a measurement vendor marks invalid. Zero is not "clean" without a vendor tag. Strict rate uses invalid_impressions, not the measurable field.
- Inventory source
The exchange or SSP name a campaign may buy. In this product it is an allowlist. Empty is unrestricted, not curated.
L
- Landing page
The page a click should open. For a test it must repeat the ad promise. A homepage that does every job will hide the result.
- Line item
The exchange object that holds bidding, budget, and pacing under a campaign. Buyers on Adprime Zero work in campaigns. The line item is compiled.
M
- MCP
Model Context Protocol. How Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other agents call Adprime Zero tools from one URL, https://mcp.adprimezero.com/mcp.
O
- Open exchange
Unreserved remnant auctions across SSPs. The default path our public display tests have actually flown.
P
- Pacing
Spreading a daily budget through the day. On the exchange we buy through it is CPM_PACED plus daily pacing. Lifetime pacing wants an end date.
- Placement
A specific ad slot on a site or app, identified by an exchange handle and placement id. Most remnant placements we bought did nothing.
- Prepaid wallet
Balance you add before a campaign can spend. The account cannot spend past what you funded. Agents request a hosted payment link.
- Private marketplace
A curated or invitation path to inventory, usually via deal IDs. Not the open remnant auction our first tests buy.
Q
- QPS
Queries per second. How many bid requests an exchange buying account (a seat) is allowed to see. Targeting does not shrink that intake by itself.
R
- Remnant
Leftover inventory that was not reserved. Open-exchange display is remnant. It is useful for tests and easy to misread.
S
- Segment
A catalog audience key you attach to targeting. Use the returned id, not the display name. Unknown keys are rejected.
- Supply path
How an impression reached the bidder: exchange, publisher, ads.txt class, deal or remnant. There is no single object named supply route.
T
- Targeting
Eligibility rules for a campaign: geo, environment, inventory source, segments, and related keys. Different from bid modifiers and from QPS filters.
V
- Viewability
Whether a served impression met a vendor's in-view standard. Zero viewable impressions means nothing is measuring if no tag is on the creative.
W
- Webhook
A signed POST to your URL when account, creative, campaign, destination, or conversion state changes. Verify X-AdpZero-Signature on the raw body.