Seekr and Oxford Road Launch Innovative Podcast Civility Score

Seekr, a revolutionary artificial intelligence company that evaluates content transparently, and Oxford Road, the leading independent audio ad agency, launched the first podcast Civility Score today. Seekr's Civility Score uses proprietary AI to help brand marketers maximise brand affinity and ROI in podcast advertising by measuring brand suitability.

"As the marketplace becomes more open to objective, third-party assessments of media content, the Civility Score provides brands with a simple-to-understand and extraordinarily effective way to protect themselves from high-risk content," said Seekr Technologies CEO and Founder Pat Condo. "It is a tool designed to move beyond the traditional brand safety and suitability frameworks and strike at the heart of the polarisation problem."

Seekr's Civility Score will use AI to objectively measure the volume and intensity of personal attacks in the nation's top podcasts, which contribute to social polarisation and aggression. The detailed scoring can help brands set media tolerance levels that protect brand integrity and limit exposure to potentially harmful content. Civility Score highlights include:

• Civility Rating: Seekr scores podcasts from low to high civility based on the level of personal attack in each show, factoring in context and nuance when presence of an attack is found.

• Risk Trends: Seekr tracks civility trends to allow brands to adjust their media spend accordingly and align with quality content.

• Detailed Metrics: Seekr provides metrics on the amount and nature of personal attacks found in evaluated show content per hour, giving brands detailed data to speed up the evaluation process.

The Civility Score scans podcast episodes in their entirety, enabling it to spot instances of personal attacks that occur at any point in a program, so brands can avoid getting caught in the crossfire. This also identifies instances where topics of discussion may not be inherently controversial and therefore not covered by GARM's 12-point Brand Safety Floor and Suitability Framework.

"We're proud to have partnered with tech firms in the past to bring content evaluation solutions to the audio space," said Dan Granger, CEO and Founder of Oxford Road. "Still, what the industry needs most is one metric that transcends subjectivity and promotes a value around which we can all align: respect for others. The strength of the Civility Score is its simplicity, as all brands, consumers, and creators can align around this expression of the Golden Rule. Now, we can reward the most responsible voices, rather than those that are simply the loudest."

As part of today's announcement, Seekr released Civility Score ratings for the top ten non-exclusive U.S. podcasts, as compiled by Edison Research.

The launch of the Civility Score will take place at the Chief Audio Officer Summit, an event that brings together marketers from the leading brands advertising in audio. Initially, the Civility Score will focus on podcasts, with plans to expand its scope to provide broader applications in all forms of media.

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