The Walk-By Count
This is your reach ceiling — nothing can be clicked, watched, or shared more times than it was shown.
How many times your package was shown — every impression is a person walking past your storefront.
What it actually measures
An impression is the platform putting your package in front of someone — a walk-by, not a visit. Platforms spend impressions like a budget: your video goes out to a batch, the system reads how people react, and it spends more if the reactions are strong. Rising impressions mean the platform is betting on you; flat impressions mean it's waiting for a reason to.
How to read it
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Counted when your thumbnail or first frame is shown on a platform surface — feeds, home, suggested. Exact definitions vary by platform and surface.
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Impressions × click rate = your actual traffic. Neither number means much alone.
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Read the trend and direction, not the raw count — your own history is the baseline.
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Classic misread: treating low impressions as punishment. It usually means the early signals — stops, clicks, holds — didn't earn a bigger batch yet.