# Filtered Impressions

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Filtered Impressions widget is a helpful tool that shows the percentage of impressions that were filtered out from your campaigns. This can happen due to multiple reasons, such as specific targeting settings, creatives, budget &amp; pacing limitations, and more. The percentage displayed indicates the number of impressions that didn't meet the specified criteria and were therefore excluded from the campaign.  
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions can be filtered for the following reasons.</span>

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##### **Pre-bid**

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The number of impressions not bought due to a pre-bid issue:</span>

- **Invalid traffic.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Number of queries that were filtered because they are considered invalid traffic, e.g., fake clickers.</span>
- **Unauthorized seller (Ads.txt).**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Number of queries that were filtered because they are from Unauthorized Sellers. </span>
- **Rewarded ads are not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Number of queries that were filtered because the requests contain rewarded ads that are not supported.</span>

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##### **Targeting**

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The number of impressions that were filtered due to targeting settings on your campaigns. </span>

<table id="bkmrk-targeting-setting-de" style="width: 771px;"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 180px;">**Targeting Setting**

</td><td style="width: 591px;">**Description**

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ad placement position</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match ad positions selected in the campaign, e.g. above the fold.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SEC &amp; LSM</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the SEC &amp; LSM targeting selected in the campaign. Read more </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span>](https://manual.eskimi.com/books/targeting-dJM/page/socio-economic-class-sec-living-standards-measure-lsm-targeting)<span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Audience</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the audience targeting options used in the campaign, e.g., DMP audience or retargeting audience. </span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Device </span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the device targeting used in the campaign. It could be related to device type, OS, brand or model. </span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Browser</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the targeted web browser in the campaign. </span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Environment</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the environment (apps or sites) targeting options used in the campaign.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Operator/ISP</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that were excluded due to operator/ISP targeting options used in the campaign.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Location</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the location targeting of the campaign, e.g. country, cities, states, or zip codes.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Language</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that were excluded due to language targeting options selected in the campaign.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Brand Safety</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match one or more brand safety settings set up in the campaign.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">IP addresses/ranges </span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the targeted IP address or ranges of the campaign.</span>

</td></tr><tr><td style="width: 180px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Categories</span>

</td><td style="width: 591px;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that did not match the app/site categories selection of the campaign. </span>

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#### **Creatives**

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The number of impressions that were filtered due to issues with the creatives selected in the campaign.</span>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Display creative aspects</span>

- **Native ad is not SSL compliant.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions filtered due to non-SSL content, such as landing pages or third-party trackers using HTTP instead of HTTPS protocol.</span>
- **Banner JavaScript is not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered because JavaScript is not supported. This can be related to rich media, or JavaScript creatives and ad exchanges that don’t support JavaScript tags.</span>
- **Native ad asset is invalid.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Native video creative image sizes are not suitable for native format alternative images.</span>
- **Video ad companion is not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions are filtered because the potential placement does not support the companion banner.</span>
- **Banner topframe**<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Impressions that are filtered due to selected top frame placement targeting.</span>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Video creative aspects</span>

- **Video ad skip is not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are excluded due to placement limitations for selected video ad skip ability options.</span>
- **Video ad VPAID or OMID is not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to selected viewability tracking methods in creative settings. Learn more about </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">VPAID</span>](https://manual.eskimi.com/books/creatives/page/a-comprehensive-guide-to-vpaid-web-publishers)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> or </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">OMID</span>](https://manual.eskimi.com/books/creatives/page/a-comprehensive-guide-to-omid-app-publishers)<span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span>
- **Video ad max duration exceeded.** <span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that are excluded because the video creative exceeds the allowed duration limit.</span>
- **Video ad VAST version is not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to the uploaded VAST tag version.</span>
- **Video ad start delay is not supported.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered because of the start delay option that is applied in creative settings.</span>
- **Video ad min duration is not reached.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to too-short video creative duration.</span>
- **Video ad MRAID is not supported.** <span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that are filtered as the placement does not support MRAID. Not all apps support MRAID, meaning that the impressions from the ones that don</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">’t support it are getting filtered. </span>
- **Video placement.** <span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that are filtered due to selected video player placement (e.g., in banner, in article, in feed, interstitial, etc.).</span>
- **Video Linear/In-Stream placement.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to selected video player requirements related to Linear/In-stream placements. </span>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Placement limitations </span>

- **Creative category is not allowed.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to a restricted creative category.</span>
- **Creative is not approved.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered as the selected creative is pending approval or was rejected by the ad exchange.</span>

<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Publisher restrictions</span>

- **Click URL excluded by publisher.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to the declared click URL, which is excluded by the publisher.</span>
- **Product category excluded by the publisher.**<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Impressions that are filtered due to detected sensitive advertised product category.</span>
- **Sensitive category excluded by the publisher.** <span style="font-weight: 400;">Impressions that are filtered due to the detected sensitive creative content category.</span>

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#### **Budget &amp; pacing**

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The number of impressions meeting targeting criteria with eligible creatives, but with bids exceeding any of the following limits:</span>

- **Frequency capping**<span style="font-weight: 400;">. Can be set on a campaign level. If the impressions limit for a user for a given period is reached, further impressions will be filtered out for the given period. </span>
- **The bid is too low.** <span style="font-weight: 400;">The bid price falls below the floor or exchange/publisher minimum price in an open auction.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Increasing the bid might help to improve campaign performance by allowing the campaign to bid on placements with higher bid floors.</span>