Glossary
24 terms covering entertainment IP intelligence, data methodology, and industry concepts.
ipranking Terms
Country Heat Score
Normalized 0-100 measure of total IP demand intensity in a specific country.
CVS (Character Valuation Score)
ipranking.io's proprietary 0-100 composite index measuring an entertainment IP's global market presence.
Franchise CVS
Aggregated CVS for a franchise using Option D: MAX(ip_cvs) + MIN(10, active_titles × 2).
Global Reach
CVS dimension (25% weight) measuring geographic penetration across 86 tracked countries.
Search Demand
CVS dimension (25% weight) measuring peak search/video platform presence.
Social Buzz
CVS dimension (30% weight) measuring average search interest across tracked countries via Google Trends.
Source Coverage
CVS dimension (20% weight) measuring how many of 6 data sources have observations for this IP.
Trend Score
Weekly ranking signal reflecting how strongly an IP is trending right now. Different from CVS.
Industry
AniList
Anime and manga tracking community platform with trending rankings and public API.
Google Trends
Google's tool showing relative search interest for terms across regions and time periods.
MyAnimeList (MAL)
World's largest anime database and community, providing scoring and ranking data.
Netflix Top 10
Official weekly Top 10 most-watched titles list published by Netflix for 94 countries.
Parrot Analytics
TV/movie demand analytics company using 'Demand Expressions' to measure content popularity.
Wikipedia Pageviews
Daily page view statistics from Wikimedia's REST API across all language editions.
Markets
Business
IP (Intellectual Property)
In entertainment context: a character, franchise, or brand that can be commercially exploited across media.
Licensing
The business of granting rights to use an IP for merchandise, content, or services in exchange for royalties.
Merchandising
Production and sale of products featuring an IP's characters, logos, or branding.
Production Committee (Seisaku Iinkai)
Japanese funding model where multiple companies invest in anime production and share IP rights.
Data & Methods
CC BY 4.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International — the license under which ipranking.io's open datasets are published.
Normalized Score
A raw value rescaled to a 0-100 range for cross-source comparability.
Week-over-Week (WoW)
Comparison of a metric's current week value to the previous week's value.