Companion launches Benchmark Value, a new way to measure ROI on influencer marketing

LONDON, Nov. 4, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Understanding the true monetary value of an influencer campaign comes one step closer with the launch of Benchmark Value (BMV), a new approach to social media measurement. It will set a global standard giving brands and agencies the ability to calculate ROI on influencer marketing consistently and accurately.

Benchmark Value (BMV) is a key feature of Companion, an industry-leading influencer platform that allows brands and agencies to track and analyse influencer campaigns. The BMV Calculator allows users to pick any social post and receive a monetary value for that post.

The new Benchmark Value tool is powered by six years' worth of data collected from tens of thousands of influencer deals - with millions of campaign data points Analysis of these deals gives a metric that equates to the average market price for different types of influencer content - covering cost per engagement and weighted cost per follower; an additional metric also weights the value by region.

Until now it has been hard for brands to measure the value of their influencer marketing; black box methodologies, guesstimates and arbitrary values of the worth of influencer content have stood in the way of transparency and standardisation across the industry.

Companion and BMV in particular will allow a brand to judge how well their influencer campaigns have performed both in terms of ROI and can be used where they are negotiating terms with influencers at the outset of a campaign. In more detail:

• BMV is calculated as a monetary value so that it can be compared with spend on other brand awareness channels, such as print media, TV etc to help brands choose where to spend their budget.
• BMV gives marketing teams the tools to justify spend on influencer marketing to finance teams with transparency and accuracy.
• BMV and Companion can also be used when planning influencer campaigns, giving a sense of whether specific influencers represent value for money and match brand values

Irving Shark, Head of Product at Companion, said: "Clients are getting tired of investing money and getting data back that is based on opaque metrics to calculate success. BMV is a transparent tool based on years of real data. For the first time, clients have an accurate view of how well their investment in influencer marketing is performing versus other channels."

Contact:
Fergus Scholes
fscholes@imcompanion.com
Tel: +44 2036 370 447 

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