Glossary

CPL

Media cost divided by the number of leads generated.

Media BuyingFoundationAlso called: Cost Per LeadSource: Industry consensus

Definition

Media cost divided by the number of leads generated.

Why it matters

CPL is the pricing metric that matters most for B2B and consideration-heavy campaigns where a "conversion" is a lead, not a sale.

Key consideration

A lead is only as good as its qualification criteria — a low CPL with a high volume of unqualified leads is not actually efficient, it just moved the cost problem downstream to sales.

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APAC benchmarks for this metric are broken out by market and channel.

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