What is Auction Insights and what metrics does it provide?

• A. A tool for adjusting bids.
• B. An analytics dashboard for daily spend.
• C. A report comparing your performance with competitors; metrics include impression share, overlap rate, position above/below, outranking share.
• D. A dashboard for creative testing.

Answer: (C)

Auction Insights is a reporting feature that shows how your ads compete in the same auctions as other advertisers. It helps you understand how often you win impressions relative to competitors and how you stack up in those auctions. The key metrics you’ll see are impression share (the percentage of eligible auctions where your ads were shown), overlap rate (how often another advertiser’s ad appears in the same auctions as yours), position above rate (how often that competitor’s ad ranked higher than yours), and outranking share (the share of auctions where your ad outranked the competitor’s). This guidance helps you gauge competitiveness and informs bidding or budget decisions.

This isn’t a tool for adjusting bids directly, nor a dashboard for daily spend analytics, nor a place to test creative.