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Table of Contents
Key Terminology
Social Media Metrics
Valuation & Promotion
Promotional Effectiveness
Earned Media

Key Terminology
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HVM (Hookit Valuation Model)
The core model that helps you understand the value you are getting from your partners Learn more

AAV (Adjusted Ad Value)
This is the key output of the HVM and is the "true" value that you are getting from a post, partner or your entire portfolio.

MAV (Max Ad Value)
The potential value each post could drive for your brand.  The amount you would have paid if the post was an ad that received the same amount of interactions on the given platform. Calculated as the number of likes, comments, shares, views, etc. multiplied by the cost per engagement (CPE) on that platform. The CPE used is a 30 day running average of daily auction data and actual ad campaigns by brands on each platform.

Promotion Quality
The quality of visuals (logos and products) and text (@mention, # hashtags, keywords, links) for branded posts scored out of 100%. The score is derived from a combination of 6 branding factors (depending on the type of post): position, coverage, clarity, viewership, competition, and crowding.

Promotional Effectiveness Score (aka PE Score)
The Promotional Effectiveness Score is a new Hookit exclusive KPI that evaluates how effective a partner is at promoting a brand. We normalize the scores to put everyone on an even playing field, so the “size” of the entity doesn’t have an impact on the results. This means that partners no matter their audience size or engagement can be directly compared.

Branded
Any time the word Branded is used (branded posts, branded engagement), we are referring to posts or content that include either text (hashtag, mention, keyword) or visual (logo) promotion for your brand.

Entity
Any of the individuals or organizations within the sport and sponsorship ecosystem - athlete, influencer, entertainer, content producer, team, league, event, venue, media property, brand.

Sport & Entertainment Graph
Hookit's proprietary digital representation of the sport & sponsorship ecosystem - the entities and their meta data & connections to other entities.  Hookit is tracking and have mapped nearly 500K entities including 100K+ athletes, 5K+ teams & leagues and 4K media properties

Brand Graph

The brand specific section of the sport & entertainment graph, this is the key to Hookit benchmarking & proper valuation.  There are 10K brands tracked and mapped with 8K logos trained and 80K brand tags.

Tags

  1. Promotion or Value Tag - this is any @, #, keyword and even logo or object mapped to an entity to identify promotion (and what we use to calculate value). They are usually unique to an entity (e.g. #nike or @visa) but in some cases can refer to two different entities (#chiefsVSbills)

  2. Entity Tag - unique & private to your dashboard and a flexible way for you to organize the entities you track - tag each entity with any tag that is relevant.  Tag entities in a specific vertical, region, campaign, group, etc.

  3. Custom Tag - this is a post level tag, also unique and private to your dashboard.  You can create tags for categories, campaigns, types of content, etc. and add multiple tags per post.  Auto-tagging is available for Advanced customers.  Ask your CSM.


Social Media Terms
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Total Fans (aka "Followers"):
The total number of social media accounts following an entity during the selected time frame on platforms currently selected in your filters that the entity is tracked on.

New Fans (aka "New Followers"):
The number of new social media follower accounts that an entity has gained/lost over the selected time frame on platforms currently selected in your filters that the entity is tracked on.

Likes:
The number of times a post has been liked (applicable to all platforms)

Comments:
The number of times a post has been commented on (applicable to most platforms).  A reply on Twitter counts as a comment.

Shares:
Number of times that a post has been shared (N/A for Instagram and Youtube). A retweet on Twitter counts as a share.

Interactions (aka Engagements):
Interactions include the likes, comments/replies, and shares/retweets on a post. Interactions now (as of 2022) include Facebook Reactions.  This term is synonymous with Engagements, a commonly used term referring to the sum of likes, comments and shares.

Engagement:
Average interactions per post divided by follower count

Video Views:
These are the view counts from videos as defined and supplied by the platforms

  • Facebook & Instagram: Viewer watches for > 3s
  • Twitter: Viewer watches for > 3s while video is 100% in view
  • YouTube: Viewer intentionally watches for at least 30s
  • TikTok: As soon as the video starts to play, a view is counted
  • VK & Weibo: Total number of times the video has been viewed

Impressions:
These are the impressions as defined and supplied by the platforms.  Actual impressions are only available via accounts Authenticated with Hookit.

  • Facebook: The total number of times that a post entered a person's screen (includes both paid and organic impressions).
  • Instagram: The total number of times that a post entered a person's screen (only includes organic impressions)
  • Twitter: The total number of times the Tweet has been viewed (only includes organic impressions)

Estimated Impressions:
In the case of measuring post impressions from unauthenticated social media accounts, Hookit uses a proprietary data model to estimate the number of impressions generated by a post. Estimated numbers will be clearly marked as such.

Interactions per Impressions:
This is a Hookit derived metric where the total interactions are divided by the total impressions - on a single post or across an aggregate of posts.  Other platforms may refer to this as the impression engagement rate.

 

 

Valuation & Promotion Terms
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Hookit Valuation Model (HVM):
Measures and values social media content with brand promotion. First, brand promotion is identified in a post based on the promo tags mapped to the brand (@, #, logo, etc.).  Next, a Max Ad Value is calculated by multiplying the engagements (likes, comments, shares, etc) by a Cost Per Engagement or "CPE" - a daily updated value based on an average of real world ad spend on the platform.  The Max Ad Value (MAV) is what the post would have cost if it were an ad on the platform with that amount of engagement.  We then analyze the promotion to arrive at a 0-100% quality score - the Promotion Quality Score.  Finally, we down weight the MAV to arrive at the AAV - the Adjusted Ad Value.  So...

Max Ad Value * Promotion Quality = Adjusted Ad Value

Adjusted Ad Value (AAV):
This is the key metric used in portfolio and partner evaluation as it combines the amount of engagement the promotion received by the quality of that promotion.  It is the "sponsorship" value of the content.

Max Ad Value (MAV):
The amount you would have paid if the post was an ad that received the same amount of interactions on the given platform. Calculated as the number of likes, comments, shares, views, etc. multipled by the cost per engagement (CPE) on that platform. The CPE used is a 30 day running average of daily auction data and actual ad campaigns by brands on each platform.

Branded (aka Promoted):  Content that includes any promotion for a brand (or any entity).  Non-branded is any post that does not include promotion for the brand(s) being analyzed.

Promo or Value Tag: Any hashtag, mention, keyword, logo or object associated with a brand or entity

Text Promotion: an embedded tag, @ mention, # hashtag or keyword.

Visual Promotion: logo or object / product (if it is being valued for a brand

Deliberate Promotion: This is a post where we can be sure it was "deliberate" - there is at least one text promotion.

Incidental Promotion: Promotion where there is ONLY visual promotion.

Branded Views: Number of views on all branded videos

Branded Posts: Number of posts promoting your brand by sponsored entities

Branded Post Ratio: Number of branded posts divided by the number of total posts

Branded Interactions:  Number of interactions from branded posts by sponsored entities

Branded Interaction Ratio: Number of branded interactions divided by the number of total interactions

Overall Promotion Quality (aka Promo Quality or PQ):
The quality of visuals (logos and products) and text (@mention, # hashtags, keywords, links) for branded posts scored out of 100%. The score is derived from a combination of 6 branding factors (depending on the type of post): position, coverage, clarity, viewership, competition, and crowding.

Average Promotion Quality:
This is an average of all the promotion qualities on the posts you are reporting on.  The Promo Quality at the very top of the dashboard is an average your average.

Effective Promotion Quality:
On an aggregate of posts, this is the AAV / MAV.  This number will likely be different than the average Promotion Quality, as it will be skewed by high MAV posts if they have high or low PQ.  This is essentially the weighed average. 

Visual Quality: The percentage of overall quality gained from visuals on posts
Text Quality: The percentage of overall quality from text on posts

Promotion Quality Factors

  • Position: The position of a text feature within a post's description (e.g. did it occur before the "see more" text cutoff?)
  • Coverage: Based on the number and size of logos in a post
  • Clarity:  Determined by how easily visible a logo is in a post
  • Competition:  Takes into account whether another brand is being promoted in the same frame(s) or caption of a post. This applies to text, images, and videos
  • Crowding:  A factor used in the calculation of promotion quality that takes into account the presence of any non-branded text features in a post. This only applies to text
  • Viewership:  A factor used in the calculation of promotion quality that takes into account the number of viewers that were exposed to a brand logo throughout a video


Share of Value:  When looking at your portfolio list, this is a % of an entities AAV divided by total AAV from all entities in the list you are viewing.

AAV per 10K Followers:  The sum of AAV divided by (sum of followers / 10,000).  This derived metric was created to compare partners and level the playing field a bit to show partners driving high value despite having smaller follower count.  It is a great way to see who is "punching above their weight".  Keep in mind the sum of AAV and sum of followers are based on your date range and filters.

Value by Platform:  The amount of value earned on a specific social media network

Value by Source: The amount of value earned from a type of entity

Most Valuable Branded Posts: All posts promoting your brand sorted by value earned

Top Promotions:  The top performing tracked promotional tags sorted by interactions + video views


Learn more about the HVM

 

Promotional Effectiveness Score (aka PE Score)
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The Promotional Effectiveness Score is a Hookit exclusive KPI that evaluates how effective a partner is at promoting a brand. We normalize the scores to put everyone on an even playing field, so the “size” of the entity doesn’t have an impact on the results. This means that partners no matter their audience size or engagement can be directly compared.

It is a 0-100 Score run weekly (every Monday), looking back 90 days from the previous week (so posts are given a chance to mature). The average is 50, so anything above that is considered 'good'.  Each entity is scored by averaging 5 weighted sub scores. When looking at your portfolio or multiple entities, the score represents the average.

5 Weighted Sub Scores:

  • Frequency your brand is promoted (30%)

  • Quality of branded posts (25%)

  • Engagement on branded vs non-branded (25%)

  • Share of Voice your brand vs others (10%)

  • Post Proportion branded vs non-branded (10%)

Learn more about the PE Score

Earned Media
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Athletes, team, league drives exposure and value for a brand via their owned social channels.  It can be argued that this is the ‘most’ valuable of brand exposure since it is coming directly from the entity that a fan is following. Brands also get exposure and value via their portfolio from channels that the athlete, team, league, etc. do not control but where they are mentioned. This exposure is considered “Earned” because the entity earned the mention - albeit for positive or negative actions.

So from this perspective, an "Owned" post is one that comes from an entities social channel they control and an "Earned" post is one that the entity is promoted or mentioned - one that includes an @ mention, # hashtag or keyword specific to that entity.


Earned Promoters: In the case of Earned Media - a promoter is an entity that promoted or mentioned another entity - for example if the PGA talked about Jordan Spieth in a post by using either an @, # or keyword that is mapped or related to him (e.g. #jordanspieth or "Jordan Spieth") - then they are the Promoter.  When looking at Jordan in your Portfolio report, the number of Promoters are the unique number of Entities that talked about him (with respect to date range or filters are set).

Earned Posts:  An earned post is any that talk about anyone in your portfolio (assuming Earned tracking is turned on for them).   A post can be both Owned and Earned - using the PGA and Jordan Spieth example - if you sponsor both PGA and Jordan - the PGA post that mentions Jordan is both Owned for PGA and Earned for Jordan.  When looking at the Entities tab, Earned Posts is the count of total post with respect to date range and filters that talked about that entity.

Earned Interactions:  The total likes, comments, shares & reactions on the earned posts

Earned Video Views:  The total video views, comments, shares & reactions on the earned posts

Earned Branded Posts:  The Earned Posts that include branding / promotion for the brands being valued in the report you are looking at.

Earned Branded Interactions:  The likes, comments, shares & reactions on the earned Posts that include branding / promotion for the brands being valued in the report you are looking at.

Earned MAV:  The MAV on the earned Posts that include branding / promotion for the brands being valued in the report you are looking at.

Earned Effective Promo Quality:  The total AAV / MAV on the earned Posts that include branding / promotion for the brands being valued in the report you are looking at.

Earned Average Promo Quality:  The average promotion quality on the earned posts that include branding / promotion for the brands being valued in the report you are looking at.

Earned AAV: The AAV on the earned Posts that include branding / promotion for the brands being valued in the report you are looking at.

Earned to Owned AAV Ratio:  The Earned AAV divided by the Owned AAV from an entity in your portfolio expressed as a %.  So if an entity drove $100K in AAV on their owned posts and their earned posts included $200K of AAV, the Earned to Owned AAV Ratio would be 200%.

Owned + Earned AAV:  Simply the entities Owned AAV + Earned AAV, so the total value driven for the brand.

 

 

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Hookit Valuation Methodology™ (HVM)
We track, measure and value millions of posts based on quality & engagement.

Promotion Type
Mentions, hashtags, link, logo in text, photo and video posts
Promotion Quality
Size, clarity, position of logos & best use of mentions, hashtags & links
Interactions
Number of likes, comments, shares, retweets or video views
CPE
Market-driven rates for a like, comment, share, retweet, or video view by platform
$ Earned
Media Value
We value based on actual engagement, never assumptive impressions.
What is analyzed for this report?
Hookit aggregates content and social engagement (interactions) from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram... what we refer to as the 2nd Screen versus television / broadcast, which is commonly referred to as the 1st Screen. Our approach is unique. We specifically focus on social / digital media to value athletes, teams and events based on quantifiable engagement and promotion quality.

Our data is sourced directly from the specific platforms via public and non-public APIs and analyzed using proprietary scoring and valuation algorithms tuned to industry standards. Hookit delivers tangible dollar values and actionable insights that broadcast valuation providers and social listening tools are unable to provide due to the depth of the data and content we aggregate and analyze.
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