Overview


Go to the Overview tab to see all the key metrics from the other tabs of Visibility Reports.


 

 

Audience

 


Detailed Breakdown of Features

Assets

Answers the question:  What multimedia did I distribute with my release?

  • Here you will see all assets that you distributed along with your release.  Asset types possible include images, videos, audio files and documents.  If you distribute a large number of assets, they will appear in a scrolling carousel format in the asset view.
Pickup

Answers the question:  Which outlets/Twitter handles picked up the full text-posting of my news release?

  • Total pickup:  All relevant media placements and influencer interaction around your content, consisting of either exact match pickup from the online and social media that we monitor, or tweets about your news.  
    • Exact matches are full text posting of the press release in the online media that we monitor.
    • Tweets in Visibility Reports are those tweets/retweets discovered on Twitter by our reporting spiders, which contain a link to your release on our PR Newswire or CNW websites.

 

  • Total potential audienceThis number refers to the potential number of viewers exposed to your exact match and tweets. Total potential audience is calculated by adding up the following:  
    • For online sites – the average number of visitors (obtained from an audience data provider) that frequent each online site that has posted your news. Visibility Reports utilizes data from the following sources:
      • Cision Digital Reach, a proprietary methodology created by Cision to measure the reach of online media outlets that post our news. Reported in a visitors/month format.
      • comScore, Inc., an Internet analytics company providing data and analytics to many of the world's largest enterprises, agencies, and publishers. Reported in a visitors/day format.
      • Alexa, an American web traffic analysis company. Measured in a visitors/day format.
      • Siteworthtraffic, an internet analytics company favored by several of our Asian customers. Measured in a visitors/day format.
    • For tweetsthe number of followers for each Twitter handle that tweets or retweets your release (obtained from Twitter).​
Traffic

Answers the question:  What traffic did my release generate?

  • Release views:  Views of your release on our websites and our network.
  • Video views:  Views of your video.
  • Image views:  Views of images with this release.
  • Audio views:  Plays of your audio files.
  • Document downloads:  Total document downloads.
Audience

Answers the question:  Who are the audiences viewing my release?

  • Media views:  Views from PR Newswire for Journalists. (A subset of Release Views).
  • Organization views:  Views from organizations identified using the visitor's IP address. (A subset of Release Views).
Engagement

Answers the question:  How are people engaging with my release?

  • Total Engagement Actions:   The total click-throughs, shares, tweets and downloads for your release.
  • Click-throughs:  Total clicks to links in your release on our websites.
  • Shares:  The number of shares from our websites, such as shares to Twitter, Facebook, via email, etc.
  • Downloads:  Total downloads for all files and documents in your release.
  • Web Conversions - If purchased with Premium Visibility - Reports Impact Audience plus Web Conversions
Industry Benchmarks

Answers the question:  How did my release perform in comparison with others?  On a scale of 1 - 100, Industry Benchmarks provide insight into how this release performed compared to other similar releases.

Visibility 
  • Pickup:  Based on the number of websites that post the full text of  your news release and their audience.
  • Traffic:  Based on views & plays of your release and any assets, and web crawler hits.
  • Audience:  Based on on the number of media and organization views to your release.
  • Total Visibility Index (TVI):  The average of Pickup, Traffic and Audience.
Engagement
  • Engagement  Index:  Based on the click-throughs,shares and, where relevant, document downloads.
 

 

*For a fuller discussion of Industry Benchmarks, go to the Industry Benchmarks section of the Release Summary page here on the Help site.

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