Estimator

See exactly what your budget delivers.

Real industry CPMs. Real CTRs. Real comparison to what you'd typically get through an agency. Adjust the inputs to match your campaign — the math updates instantly.

Industry-standard defaults · Sources cited below
Your campaign

Set your inputs.

Slide or type. Defaults are industry standard for display advertising.

Total dollars for the entire campaign · Recommended minimum: $500
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$500$50,000
How long the campaign runs · Recommended minimum: 30 days
days
30 days365 days
Display average: $5.00 · Video: $15–$40 · Native: $3–$12
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$2.00$40.00
Display average: 0.08% · Native: 0.30–0.80% · Retargeting: 0.50%+
%
0.05%2.00%
Defaults match
display ad benchmarks
With Adlo's flat 20% fee
$1,200

actually reaches your ads over 30 days. The remaining 20% covers DSP access, audience targeting, fraud protection, live reporting, and campaign management — included.

$50/day pace across the campaign. That's $540 more reaching real ads than a typical agency stack delivers on the same budget.

Where every dollar goes.

Source: ANA Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study, 2024 · Estimates

Adlo 80% to ads · 20% flat platform fee
$1,200 to ads
80% reaches ads
Typical agency stack 44¢ of every dollar reaches ads
$660 to ads
44% reaches ads

What you'll likely see.

Estimates based on your inputs · Actual results depend on creative, targeting, and audience

Impressions
240,000
times your ad is shown
Estimated clicks
192
based on your CTR
Estimated reach
80,000
unique people, est. 3x frequency
Daily pace
$50
spend per day across 30 days

Your true cost, every dollar in.

Total spend ÷ what you actually got · The honest unit economics finance teams ask for

With Adlo
Typical agency stack
Cost per click
$7.81
$14.20
Cost per impression
$0.0063
$0.0114
Effective CPMcost per 1,000 impressions
$6.25
$11.36

Agency comparison data: ANA Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study, 2024

About these estimates. CPM and CTR ranges reflect IAB and WordStream display advertising benchmarks for 2024–2026. Adlo's 80/20 figure reflects our flat 20% platform fee on every dollar of ad spend. The agency stack 44/56 figure is from the Association of National Advertisers' 2024 Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study, which examined fees layered across DSPs, SSPs, agency commissions, and ad-tech middlemen. Your campaign's actual results depend on creative quality, audience targeting, and inventory selection.
Methodology

The math behind the math.

Every number on this page comes from a published industry source. Here's exactly how each calculation works, so your finance team can verify it themselves.

01

The 20% flat fee.

Adlo charges a flat 20% of your ad spend. One fee, baked into the budget. No setup costs, no platform fees on top, no contracts. The 20% covers DSP access, audience targeting, fraud protection, real-time reporting, and campaign management. The remaining 80% buys actual ads.

02

The 56¢ industry figure.

Per the ANA Programmatic Transparency Benchmark Study (2024): across the typical agency stack, only 44 cents of every programmatic dollar reaches the actual ad. The remaining 56 cents covers layered fees from DSPs, SSPs, agencies, ad networks, and verification vendors.

03

Volume math.

Impressions = (working budget ÷ CPM) × 1,000. Clicks = impressions × CTR. Reach assumes an average frequency of 3 impressions per unique user, which matches IAB best practice for display campaigns. CPM and CTR defaults reflect blended display benchmarks for 2024–2026.

04

True unit economics.

Cost per click = total spend ÷ total clicks. Cost per impression = total spend ÷ total impressions. Effective CPM = cost per impression × 1,000. These figures use the full budget (including the platform fee), which is the honest number your finance team will ask for.

05

Daily pacing.

Daily pace = total budget ÷ campaign duration. Programmatic auctions run in real time, so steady daily spend produces better results than concentrated bursts. Campaigns reach full effectiveness around $15+/day, where the platform has enough spend to compete in auctions and gather meaningful performance data.

06

Why every dollar matters.

Programmatic compounds. Every dollar that reaches actual ads creates impressions, which create reach, which create clicks, which create conversions. Lower platform fees mean more dollars compounding through that chain. The math is mechanical: lower the friction, raise the outcome.

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