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Understanding Your Autopilot Metrics

What impressions, views, clicks, CTR, CPC, CPM and CPA mean — and how to use them to judge your Autopilot campaign.

Autopilot campaigns show you the same kind of results you'd see in an ad manager. Here's what each number means, where to find it, and how to use it.


Where to Find Your Metrics

  • Campaign list — Each campaign card shows total spend, views, clicks, CTR, CPC and CPA, plus today's spend against your daily Performance Budget.

  • Campaign Overview — The Performance chart lets you compare metrics over Today, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days or All Time. Click any point to see the posts behind it.

  • Top performing videos — Your best videos ranked, with views, likes, comments and shares.


Metrics Explained

Metric

What it means

How it's calculated

Impressions

How many times your videos were shown

Counted by the ad platform

Views

How many times your videos were watched

Counted by the ad platform

Total spend

What you've spent on the campaign

Ad spend + creator commission + marketplace fee

Clicks

How many people tapped through to your target URL

Counted by the ad platform

CTR (click-through rate)

The share of people who clicked after seeing your ad

Clicks ÷ impressions × 100

CPC (cost per click)

What you pay on average for each click

Spend ÷ clicks

CPM (cost per mille)

What you pay for 1,000 impressions

Spend ÷ impressions × 1,000

CPA (cost per action)

What you pay per install or conversion

Spend ÷ actions. Book a call with our team to set it up

Videos

Number of submissions in your campaign

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Creators

Number of creators who submitted

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Good to know: CPM here is an ad metric, the cost of 1,000 impressions. It's not the same as the retired CPM deals, where you paid creators per 1,000 organic views.


How to Read Your Results

  • High CTR — Your hook and call to action are working. People want to know more.

  • Low CTR — People watch but don't click. Make the call to action clearer, or show the product earlier.

  • Rising CPC — Your ads are getting more expensive per click. This can happen when a creative gets tired or the audience gets saturated. Fresh submissions help.

  • Many impressions, few views — The first second isn't stopping the scroll. Ask for a stronger hook in your brief.


Benchmarks Depend on Your Product

There's no universal "good" CTR or CPC. Results depend on your niche, your platform, your offer and your target URL. Compare your campaigns with each other and look at the trend over time, not a single day.

Tip: Results in the first day mostly come from testing. Give your campaign several days before you judge it — that's when the winners campaign kicks in. Pausing early stops that learning before it pays off.


Need Help?

Want a second pair of eyes on your numbers? Reach out to our support team or book a strategy call.

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