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Cost of attention

You don't buy impressions.
You buy attention.

Raw CPM measures the space you bought. Qualified CPM measures what is actually seen, remembered and useful. That's where everything is won or lost.

4000+
Ad messages / day
According to Dentsu
30%
Actually seen
Of "viewable" ads · Lumen Research, 2023
58%
Digital share of out-of-home revenue in Canada
COMMB
The context

The market isn't short on impressions.

Distribution is no longer the problem. Attention has become the scarce resource.

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Internet users Canada

38.2 million

38.2 million internet users in Canada at the end of 2025 — 95.1% of the population: nearly every consumer is online.

Source: DataReportal — Digital 2026 Canada

Social identities

33.0 million

33.0 million social media user identities in October 2025, equivalent to 82.1% of the population (an identity is not necessarily a unique person).

Source: DataReportal — Digital 2026 Canada

Ad messages

4,000+ / day

According to Dentsu, 4,000+ advertising messages hit us every day. The problem is no longer distribution: it's attention.

Source: Dentsu — The Attention Economy

"An impression that isn't seen or remembered creates no value for your brand."
The problem

The illusion of raw CPM.

A counted impression is not a seen impression. And a seen impression is not necessarily remembered.

30%
Of viewable ads are actually seen
According to Lumen Research, even among ads that are technically "visible," only 30% capture a real gaze (Lumen attention data, 2023). The other 70% go ignored.
Source: Lumen Research — Attention Technology: What Advertisers Need to Know (2023)

Too many messages, every day.
Only attention counts.

In the age of digital saturation — DartsMedia · 2026

The comparison

Not all media are equal.

The question isn't how many impressions, but how much real attention.

Social media · Mobile
Scroll & mobile
PromiseAttractive CPM · Broad reach
LimitScroll, skip, saturation, adblock
AngleEffective for direct conversion, fragile for brand anchoring
TV · Video
Television & video
PromiseStrong creative impact · Mass reach
LimitMulti-screening, high cost, dispersion
AngleMass medium, real attention varies
Out-of-home
Roadside billboard
PromiseMass visibility · Awareness
LimitSpeed, distance, divided gaze
AnglePowerful for awareness, weaker on qualified attention
DartsMedia
Physical presence in a social venue
PromiseCaptive attention · Consumption context
LimitRequires strong creative + rotation
Angle0 scroll — 0 skip — 0 adblock
DartsMedia target — aiming at real attention
Our approach

No scroll. No skip. No adblock.

A physical screen placed exactly where your target chooses to gather. In a real, repeated consumption context.

Zero digital frictionNo ad blocking possible. The screen is a built-in part of the venue.
Natural repetitionEstimated average frequency: 17 exposures per visit, based on 40 plays per hour, 73 minutes of average dwell time (Atmosphere, U.S., 2022) and a 35% exposure factor. Estimated, never certified.
Attention contextYour target is there by choice, in a social and active moment — not by accident.
⚑ Proprietary DartsMedia model — internal, unaudited estimates
The data

The science confirms it.

The studies converge: physical OOH generates durable recall and attention.

OOH › all media
In the U.S., an aggregation of 2017–2022 studies (Solomon Partners, 2023) ranks out-of-home ahead of TV, podcasts, radio, print and online for ad recall.
Source: OAAA / Solomon Partners — OOH Recall Benchmark 2023
58% · Digital OOH
According to COMMB, digital accounts for 58% of Canadian out-of-home revenue in 2025, with place-based the fastest-growing segment.
Source: COMMB, press release, February 23, 2026
Attention = currency
Dentsu notes that the industry still trades on impressions without knowing whether ads were even seen, and calls for a better way to define and value attention.
Source: Dentsu — The Attention Economy

All our impression volumes are estimates based on a methodology inspired by OOH/DOOH standards — never presented as certified. See our methodology & measurement →

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