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Your Earned Content metrics explained

Updated over 4 years ago

In this document, you’ll find all of the available metrics and their definitions:

Interaction Metrics

  • Widget Impressions: The number of times a page loaded that contains a widget.

  • Unique Widget Impressions: The number of unique users who visited a page with a widget.

  • Unique User Return Rate: The percentage of users who interacted with a widget, then returned to the site (compared to regular returning users).

  • Widget Interactions: Counted whenever a user:

    • Clicks to load additional images in a widget

    • Clicks to load additional images in a gallery widget

    • Clicks on "view gallery"

    • Clicks to upload a photo

    • Applies a widget filter

    • Clicks on an image in the widget to open the lightbox

    • Plays a video

    • Clicks to view the next image in a lightbox

    • Clicks through to a product detail page

  • Unique User Interactions: The number of unique users who interacted with a widget.

  • Unique User Interaction Rate: The percentage of unique users who interacted with a widget, compared to those who only visited a page with a widget.

Revenue and Conversion Metrics

  • Revenue: Impressions: The revenue generated by users who converted after visiting a page with a widget.

  • Revenue: Interactions: The revenue generated by users who converted after interacting with a widget.

  • % of Revenue from Interactions: The percentage of the revenue generated by users who interacted with widgets (Revenue: Interactions) compared to Revenue: Impressions.

  • Conversion Rate: Impressions: The percentage of users who converted after visiting a page with a widget.

  • Conversion Rate: Interactions: The percentage of users who converted after interacting with a widget

  • Conversion Rate Increase: The impact on conversion rate from users interacting with a widget compared to users who do not interact.

Widget Interaction Metrics

  • Lightbox Views: the number of times a lightbox for a photo was opened. A lightbox is the window that launches when a user clicks into a Social Native widget.

  • Shopping Clicks: the number of click throughs to a landing page from the lightbox.

  • Click Through Rate: (Number of Shopping Clicks) / (Number of Lightbox Views)

Collection Summary Metrics

  • Average Photos per Stream: The average number of photos per stream, regardless of date range.

  • Streams With Photos: The percentage of streams containing photos, regardless of date range.

  • Approval Rate: The percentage of your collected photos that are rights approved.

Advocate Metrics

  • Approved Photos: The amount of content collected from a specific advocate that a brand has been granted rights to use.

  • Revenue: The revenue generated by users who interacted with this advocate's content and checked out within the conversion window.

  • Conversions: The total number of checkouts completed within the conversion window after interacting with this advocate's content.

  • CVR (%): The conversion rate, calculated by the number of conversions divided by a widget's lightbox impressions that are attributed to this advocate’s content.

  • CTR (%): Click-through rate, calculated by the number of clicks through this advocate's content divided by the number of times it was viewed in the lightbox.

  • Shopping Clicks: The number of clicks through the shopping button to drive to product description or property page for this advocate’s content.

  • Lightbox Views: The number of times a user expanded a widget's lightbox containing this advocate's content.

How Uniques Are Calculated

Total Unique Interactions: the sum of all widget impressions or interactions during the selected date range.

Example:

  • A customer browses your website and clicks on a photo on the homepage, then a photo on the product page. Analytics breakdown:

  • Total Unique Interaction = 1 visit

  • Homepage: Interaction = 1 visit

  • Product or Property Page: Interaction = 1 visit

  • Each widget reflects one interaction. Unique engagement is also one.

Total Unique Revenue: the sum of all revenue from sales influenced by widgets during the selected date range.

Example:

  • A customer browses your website and visits the homepage, then a product page, and checks out for $100. Analytics breakdown:

  • Total Unique Revenue: Impression = $100

  • Homepage: Impression = $100

  • Product or Property Page: Impression = $100

  • Each widget is attributed revenue for the sale at $100. Unique revenue also totals at $100.

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