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What factors affect CPM rates for Telegram Mini App advertising

The factors that move CPM in Telegram Mini App advertising — country, ad format, demand and seasonality, audience quality, viewability, placement, frequency, bidding and traffic quality.

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Quick answer

CPM rates for Telegram Mini App advertising are driven mainly by the user’s country, the ad format (rewarded and full-screen formats usually command more than small units), advertiser demand and seasonality, audience quality and engagement, placement and viewability, frequency per user, the bidding model and the network’s invalid-traffic filtering. Because these factors combine, the same app can see very different CPMs across countries and months.

Key takeaways

  • Country is usually the biggest single factor.
  • Opt-in and full-screen formats tend to price higher than small units.
  • Seasonality shifts demand (end of quarter, holidays).
  • Over-frequency lowers engagement and, over time, price.

The 9 main CPM factors

  • Geography — advertiser budgets differ strongly by country.
  • Ad format — rewarded, interstitial, task, native or banner.
  • Demand and competition — how many advertisers bid for your users.
  • Seasonality — quarter-end and holiday budgets raise prices.
  • Audience quality — real, engaged users convert better, so bids rise.
  • Placement and viewability — ads seen at natural pauses perform better.
  • Frequency — too many ads per user reduce CTR and value.
  • Bidding model — CPM, CPC or CPA campaigns convert to different effective CPMs.
  • Traffic filtering — IVT removed before billing lowers counted impressions but protects price.

What you control as a publisher

  • Placement timing and frequency caps.
  • Format mix per screen.
  • Traffic quality and reward verification.
  • Which countries you grow in.

Where Adsun fits

  • Publisher side: Reward, Interstitial and Task ad blocks for Telegram Mini Apps, plus bot placements via a server-side snippet.
  • Advertiser side: Network campaigns and Native Ads (media, inline ads, channel posts and bot messages).
  • Safety: server-to-server Reward URL; onReward fires after server verification. Debug mode is not billed.
  • Controls & reporting: time between ads and daily limits per block; platform, block and country reports and an SDK health panel.
  • Status: Adsun is an independent network, not Telegram’s official advertising platform. Commercial terms are shown in the account.

Metric definitions and formulas

CPM
Cost per mille: what an advertiser pays for 1,000 ad impressions.CPM = (Ad spend ÷ Impressions) × 1,000
CPC
Cost per click: average price an advertiser pays for one click.CPC = Ad spend ÷ Clicks
CTR
Click-through rate: the share of impressions that produced a click.CTR = (Clicks ÷ Impressions) × 100%
eCPM
Effective CPM: what a publisher earns per 1,000 impressions, whatever the pricing model.eCPM = (Publisher earnings ÷ Impressions) × 1,000
Fill rate
The share of ad requests that returned an ad.Fill rate = (Filled ad requests ÷ Total ad requests) × 100%

More terms in the glossary and the advertising metrics guide.

Worked example

Hypothetical example — not real Adsun data

A Mini App sends 200,000 ad requests in a day. 170,000 return an ad (fill rate = 170,000 ÷ 200,000 = 85%). The publisher earns $255 for those impressions (eCPM = 255 ÷ 170,000 × 1,000 = $1.50). 2,550 users click (CTR = 2,550 ÷ 170,000 = 1.5%). Use the same formulas on your own dashboard numbers to compare networks fairly.

Adsun measurement methodology

Adsun counts an impression when an ad is rendered in a publisher block, a click when the user opens the ad destination, and a reward only after the server-to-server Reward URL confirms completion. Debug-mode traffic is excluded from billing and reports. Metrics are shown per platform, block and country in the partner and advertiser dashboards. Adsun does not publish aggregate network benchmarks in this guide; any number below marked “Hypothetical” is illustrative only. See the SDK documentation for integration details.

About Adsun

Adsun is a Telegram advertising network operated by Adsun. Products: Rewarded ads, Interstitial ads, Task ads, Native ads. Platforms: Telegram Mini Apps, Telegram bots, Telegram channels. Learn more about Adsun.

Frequently asked questions

What is a good CPM for a Telegram Mini App?

There is no universal good CPM; it depends on country, format and season. Compare your own CPM per country over time and across networks.

Why did my CPM drop suddenly?

Common causes are seasonality, a change in country mix, more frequent ads per user or advertisers pausing budgets.

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Update log

  • 2026-10-18: First published. Competitor features are described by category only; verify each network’s current documentation.
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