In response to feedback from a number of our customers, the Attributor service has received a significant upgrade to the Dashboard, the Match Site Profile pages, and the sorting of matches under Current Matches. This new release is the culmination of a lot of work, and we’re very pleased with the changes; we hope you will be as well.

We’ve split the Dashboard up into four separate, contextually-driven sections, and added new metrics and new graphics that better show the spread of your content across the web, and how it’s being used by both your licensees and by those nefarious non-licensed sites. The objective here is to give you more actionable information for your Sales teams, and bubble up those sites that may require special attention from your Compliance folks. We’ve also added a page that shows new, relevant information for the Editorial team.

The Dashboard is now four separate screens. The first three screens build on the data we presented in the previous Dashboard, but with greater detail and with the ability to display match data based on Licensee status; the previous dashboard showed only Unlicensed match information. These changes will also extend to the Match Site Profile Page. Most importantly, we’ve included some important new metrics on these pages. These are:

• Number of match sites with ads
• Average matches per site
• Extensive & Ads chart (shows how many sites are using >50% of your source documents and making money off of them).

The new Matches dashboard

The fourth screen is an entirely new screen and comprises the original “Top Copied Sources” sub-screen from the original Dashboard plus new summary data for ingested sources and overall publishing status trends. Top Copied Sources can also now be displayed for 7 or 30 days of data. The new metrics on this screen are:

• Sources Copied – sources that have at least one match
• Average Matches per Source
• Average % Copied
• Average Words Copied

The new All Sources dashboard

The new release also brings in a new sorting feature for matches, both by domain and by source: Sort by Date. This allows you to sort by the Match Date or % Copied, as opposed to the previous hardwired % copied sort order.

Sort by date – available for both domain-level matches (shown) or source match lists

These changes have come in direct response to requests and feedback from our growing customer base. Your ideas drive our product. I’d like encourage you to send all your ideas, feedback, even criticisms, to me, every time something occurs to you. My job is to make sure that you get what you need from our services, and that includes making sure that your brilliant ideas get incorporated into the next (and next, and next) releases of our products. If you don’t have my email address, it’s david <at> attributor.com. I sit next to the Product Manager, and every idea you send, I immediately discuss it with him and the rest of the Product team, and then we batch them up for review by a larger team, and those ideas that we either can or feel we should execute on, get scheduled into the product roadmap. So, please keep the feedback coming!

-David