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42 terms

Glossary

One term per page, in plain English, linked to the Lab tests and guides that use it.

A

  • ads.txt

    A publisher file that lists who is authorized to sell that domain's inventory. Authorization is not a quality score.

  • Allowlist

    An explicit list of what may serve. On inventory source, an empty allowlist is not "all exchanges." It can compile to no inventory.

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.