Sudden Significant Drop of Admob Impression in a Few Days

My guess is you are only using admob. You could do better implementing several ad networks. The easiest way to do this is using mediation. That way if admob is not working good, you will have other options. Check out: Appodeal, Vungle, IronSource.

eCPM is always lower in beginning of the year. 0.48 is good for January.