Not exactly. If you use 30,000 a day you will pay $20, or only $0.66 per one thousand.
They are giving you over 9 million requests a year for free. Its not unreasonable to expect the profit from that to help subsidize the excess,
They are giving you over 9 million requests a year for free. Its not unreasonable to expect the profit from that to help subsidize the excess,
$4-8/CPM is far more than most ad networks pay. Perhaps Google is deliberately trying to get rid of most major GMaps users. If they follow through on this, they will be successful.
The $10k/yr Enterprise licence works out to $27/day which breaks even with the incremental pricing at 58k visits/day.
That's $68 cpm.
With some pushback they increased it to 1M impressions a year, but it's still a bit ridiculous.