AVE for social media? No thanks

29 March 2010 + 0 , ,

The idea of using AVE (advertising value equivalent) calculations for measuring the benefits of social media gets a general thumbs down over on the PR Week website where there’s a feature looking at this question.

My comment on it was:

Social media doesn’t perform one task; it performs many – marketing, customer service, PR and more. You can’t collapse all of those different impacts into one measure.

You can read the full piece here and some background on AVE in the piece I did for Reputation Online.

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