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Brand Safety and Content Analysis Methodology

How does Brand Safety and Content Analysis work? How is it calculated?

Written by Ruth Dunn
Updated over a month ago

Choosing the right creator is not only about alignment. It is also about risk and reputation. Brand Safety and Content Analysis scores are designed to give you a clear, structured understanding of a creator’s content before you collaborate.

Here is how the methodology works:


1. We Analyze Every Post Across All Platforms

We do not rely on a sample of content.

We analyze every available post from each creator across all their social platforms. This includes captions, text content, and contextual signals from their publications.

All of this content is fed into a large language model for structured evaluation.

This allows us to assess the creator based on their full content history, not isolated examples.


2. Content Analysis

Once the content is processed, we generate a comprehensive Content Analysis profile.

This analysis evaluates:

  • Core themes and recurring topics

  • Tone of voice

  • Positioning and narrative style

  • Controversial or sensitive themes

  • Content intensity and language patterns

The goal is to clearly understand what the creator consistently talks about and how they communicate.

This creates a structured, AI generated overview of their content identity, helping brands quickly assess:

  • Whether the creator’s content fits their category

  • Whether the tone aligns with their brand voice

  • Whether the creator frequently discusses polarizing topics

Content Analysis provides context.

It answers: What kind of content does this creator actually produce?


3. Brand Safety Evaluation

Brand Safety focuses on risk detection.

Using the same full content dataset, the model evaluates potential safety concerns across areas such as:

  • Explicit or adult content

  • Hate speech or discriminatory language

  • Political extremism

  • Violence or harmful behavior

  • Substance abuse references

  • Misleading or harmful claims

The system does not rely on keyword blocking alone. It evaluates context and meaning to avoid false positives and detect nuanced risk.

The result is a Brand Safety Score that reflects the level of potential reputational risk associated with the creator’s content.

A higher score indicates lower risk.
A lower score signals elevated safety concerns.


4. Structured Scoring

From this full scale analysis, we generate:

  • A Brand Safety Score

  • A Content Analysis profile

  • Risk flags when applicable

This gives brands a clear framework for evaluation:

  • Is this creator aligned with our values

  • Is their tone compatible with our positioning

  • Does their content present reputational risk


Why This Matters

Influencer partnerships directly impact brand perception.

Even a single controversial post can affect:

  • Customer trust

  • Public image

  • Long term brand equity

Manual vetting is time consuming and inconsistent. Reviewing hundreds or thousands of posts per creator is not scalable.

By analyzing every post with AI and applying structured evaluation criteria, we create a consistent, objective, and scalable safety review process.


The Difference Between Brand Fit and Brand Safety

It is important to distinguish the two:

Brand Fit measures relevance.
Brand Safety measures risk.

A creator can have:

  • High Brand Fit and high Brand Safety, ideal scenario

  • High Brand Fit but low Brand Safety, relevant but risky

  • Low Brand Fit but high Brand Safety, safe but irrelevant

Together, these scores give you both alignment and protection.


In Summary

Our methodology is simple but comprehensive:

  1. We collect and analyze every creator post across all platforms

  2. We feed the full dataset into an advanced language model

  3. We generate structured Content Analysis insights

  4. We calculate a Brand Safety Score based on contextual risk evaluation

This allows you to move beyond surface level metrics and make partnership decisions based on:

  • Relevance.

  • Reputation.

  • Risk control.

With Brand Safety and Content Analysis, you gain clarity before committing to collaboration.

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