Impressions expiration

All creative types use delayed impressions. This means that impressions aren't counted until the creative renders and sends an impression request back to Google. Because of this secondary request, RTB breakout and RTB Troubleshooting can return a greater number of winning bids than billable impressions.

Expiration windows

The expiration window for impressions-based billing events varies by inventory type. The expiration window of the request in seconds is sent in the BidRequest.imp.exp field in OpenRTB, and BidRequest.adslot.impression_expiration_seconds in the deprecated Google RTB protocol.