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Ad Load
The amount of advertising relative to content: ads per page, ad minutes per hour of video, ad slots per feed session. Ad load is a publisher decision that trades short-term revenue against audience retention and is a signal buyers use to judge inventory quality.
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Agency Echelon. "Ad Load." Agency Echelon Reference, reviewed September 2026. https://agencyechelon.com/reference/glossary/ad-load/