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How your earnings are calculated

The earnings figure in the dashboard is your net revenue — the money that belongs to you after OCM's fee has been applied. Understanding how OCM arrives at that number helps you interpret what you see and know what to expect at payment time.

Step 1 — Revenue aggregation​

OCM collects revenue data from every demand source running on your inventory: open auction exchanges, private marketplace deals, direct partnerships, and content distribution partners. Each of these sources reports on its own schedule. OCM aggregates everything into a single net revenue figure for each publisher.

Step 2 — Fee deduction​

OCM deducts its agreed service fee from the total net revenue. The result is your publisher earnings — the figure shown in the dashboard.

Step 3 — Reconciliation​

In the days after any given period, demand partners sometimes revise their reported revenue. The most common reasons are invalid traffic filtering — removing bot activity or fraudulent clicks — and data corrections from their own reconciliation processes. This is routine and expected, and is why yesterday's figures may be slightly different when you check them the following day.

When earnings become final​

The dashboard refreshes data once per day. Current-month data gets a full refresh every Sunday. The previous month's data is finalised in the first days of the following month — this is the number that generates your invoicing request.

Example

You are checking the dashboard on May 4th. April's earnings figure may still be slightly different from the final invoiced amount, because the full month-close data refresh for April has not yet completed. Once it has, the invoiced figure and the dashboard figure will align.

Practical tips
  • For billing purposes, always use the Payments section — not the Performance page. The Payments section shows your confirmed, invoiced figures.
  • If the dashboard shows a number that is materially different from your invoice — more than 5% — that is worth raising as a support case.

See also: Understanding your estimated earnings · How and when you get paid