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Brand Strength Index

Explains the Brand Strength Index in Encompass: the weighted weekly-recalculated score for comparing brands, with its formula using potential buyers, 13-week buyers, placements, sales and growth metrics. Requires v25.01+.

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Written by Bailey Naas-Thornton

Minimum Version Required: 25.01

Pre-Conditions

Brand Strength Index is a weighted sum of sales data that results in a single numerical value that can be used to compare brands to each other. This value is recalculated each weekend.

Steps

Below is the overall calculation. Some of the variables below are defined in the 'Fields and Definitions' section of this Help Resource

(WHEN PotentialBuyers < 100 THEN 0 ELSE 1.0) * WeeklySalesPerPotentialBuyers

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(WHEN Buyers13Week / PotentialBuyers < 0.01 OR Buyers13Week < 10 THEN 0

WHEN Buyers13Week / PotentialBuyers < 0.10 THEN 0.25

ELSE 0.5) * (WeeklySalesPerBuyers + WeeklySalesPerPlacements)

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(WHEN Buyers13Week / PotentialBuyers < 0.01 THEN 0 ELSE 1.0) * (BuyerGrowth13WeekSales + PlacementGrowth13WeekSales + SalesGrowth13Week + SalesGrowthLastYear13Week)

Fields And Definitions

  • WeeklySalesPerPotentialBuyers = Sales13Week / 13 / PotentialBuyers

  • WeeklySalesPerBuyers = Sales13Week / 13 / Buyers13Week

  • WeeklySalesPerPlacements = Sales13Week / 13 / Placements13Week

  • BuyerGrowth13WeekSales = Buyers13WeekChange / Buyers13Week * Sales13Week / 13 / Buyers13Week

  • PlacementGrowth13WeekSales = Placements13WeekChange / Placements13Week * Sales13Week / 13 / Placements13Week

  • SalesGrowth13Week = Sales13WeekChange / 13 / Buyers13Week

  • SalesGrowthLastYear13Week = SalesLastYear13WeekChange / 13 / Buyers13Week

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