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Attendance Is Not Audience Quality

The commercial logic behind verified audience records and the Event Audience Quality Score™.

Fashion AI™ Research

Attendance Is Not Audience Quality

Commercial event value depends on who attended, their authority, reach and relevance—not merely the headline attendance figure. The Event Audience Quality Score™ is structured around that distinction.

Event Audience Quality Score™

In development

Measures the commercial quality of an event audience rather than its size, so that a smaller edition with concentrated trade attendance can be shown to outperform a larger general-admission one.

Coverage rule. Computed only from a Verified Event Record: check-in or registration data covering at least 70 per cent of attendance, an audience survey meeting the sample floor, and accreditation records. Self-reported attendance alone yields no score.

EAQS dimensions and weights, fixed before computation
DimensionWeightProvenance
Trade concentrationVerified buyers, retailers and wholesale decision-makers as a share of attendance, weighted by employer scale band.0.25Observed
Decision authoritySeniority mix of professional attendees, normalized to a five-level ladder.0.20Observed
Media and influence reachAccredited outlets weighted by audience, and influencer attendance weighted by engaged audience rather than follower count.0.20Reported
Commercial audience powerSelf-reported category spend band and purchase intent, aggregated with small-cell suppression.0.15Partner data
International and geographic reachShare of attendance originating outside the host metro and host country, and distinct countries represented.0.10Observed
Engagement depthRepeat attendance, session attendance and post-event action rate.0.10Observed
Total1.00