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A click is when someone taps or selects a link or button in an ad, usually to visit a website or landing page. Click-through rate, or CTR, measures how many people click on an ad divided by how many people see it, expressed as a percentage.

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    Where people quit your funnel tells you what's broken in the ad.

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    Which ad metrics actually tell you the creative worked.

    By Sean Patrick Coon · September 28, 2026

    Most post-campaign numbers grade your targeting and your budget, not your ad, meaning they tell you who saw it and what you paid, not whether the ad itself worked. Here's the short list that actually tells you if the ...

  • Judging an Ad That's Already Run

    What counts as a good click-through rate depends on who's asking.

    By Sean Patrick Coon · September 22, 2026

    A dentist and a real estate agent can run equally well-built ads and land 4 percentage points apart on click-through rate (the share of people who see an ad and click it), because the benchmark moves by industry, by y...