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Publication Impressions, Audience Reach, Circulation and AVE

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Agility PR Solutions maintains a large, validated dataset across all major media types — print, magazines, broadcast, and online. All publication data is consistently reviewed by Agility's media analysts to ensure accuracy and reliability.

Below is the full methodology Agility uses to calculate impressions, audience reach, circulation, and AVE.


🔹 Agility’s Media Data Overview

Agility’s database includes:

  • Print publications (newspapers, magazines)

  • Online sources (websites, blogs)

  • Broadcast stations (radio & TV)

  • News outlets from around the world

All impressions, reach values, and AVE metrics follow consistent, industry-standard methodology.


🔹 Print Publications

Circulation / Reach

Circulation values for daily and community newspapers come directly from each publication’s media kit and represent the audience reach.

Print AVE Calculation

Agility uses the publication’s full-page ad rate, then calculates the equivalent value of the article:

Formula:
Ad rate per word × Number of words in the article

This provides the ad value of that specific print mention.


🔹 Magazines

Magazine data comes from:

  • Publication rate cards

  • Media kits

  • Public circulation data

Magazines use the same AVE formula as print:

Full-page ad rate per word × Number of article words


🔹 Broadcast (TV & Radio)

Agility provides audience reach and publicity/ad value for major TV and radio stations.

Where values come from:

  1. Vendor-provided data (reach + ad rate)

  2. If vendor data is unavailable:
    Agility calculates estimated values based on:

    • Comparable reference stations

    • Public, industry-standard data

    • Historical trend data

This ensures every broadcast mention receives:

  • An audience reach score

  • An AVE value

Even if direct vendor data was unavailable.


🔹 Online Publications

Audience Reach

Agility uses Monthly Unique Visitors (MUV) as the reach metric.

Data is sourced from Similarweb, the industry standard for web traffic analytics.

Online AVE Calculation

The calculation uses a standard CPM of $25 (cost per thousand impressions), based on internal research across hundreds of websites.

Formula:
$25 × (Average Daily Visitors ÷ 1,000)

Example

If a website has 100,000 average daily visitors:

$25 × (100,000 ÷ 1,000) = $2,500 AVE


🔹 Summary of Key Metrics

Media Type

Reach Metric

Source

AVE Method

Print

Circulation

Media kit

Ad rate/word × article length

Magazine

Circulation

Rate cards, media kits

Same as print

Broadcast

Audience reach

Vendor data or Agility estimates

Vendor rate or estimated equivalent

Online

Monthly Unique Visitors

Similarweb

$25 CPM × (daily visitors ÷ 1,000)


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