Data collection inputs
We combine market-facing data, internal signals, and manual review. No single source is sufficient on its own, so the methodology is built around cross-checking rather than pretending one feed is authoritative in every case.
Competitor and provider monitoring
We observe available service menus, price points, and category coverage across market providers that are relevant to public comparison pages.
Internal transaction patterns
Aggregated internal activity helps us understand which categories are active, volatile, or worth surfacing to readers.
Structured public inputs
Where useful, we pull from platform documentation, public APIs, and market-facing product pages that can be cited or checked directly.
Manual QA checks
Snapshots are reviewed periodically to catch broken mappings, stale categories, or prices that clearly fall outside expected ranges.
How the price index is calculated
Normalize units
Service prices are translated into comparable units so category-level comparisons do not mix incompatible package sizes.
Remove obvious outliers
Extremely high or low values that would distort a public snapshot are excluded when they fail basic reasonableness checks.
Aggregate by platform and category
We compute summary ranges and averages for tracked categories such as followers, likes, views, and subscribers.
Refresh and cache
Public-facing market summaries are refreshed on a schedule and cached so pages stay fast while still reflecting recent market movement.
Coverage by platform
Followers, likes, views, comments, story-related signals
TikTok
Followers, likes, views, shares, comments
YouTube
Subscribers, views, likes, watch-time adjacent services
Page growth, likes, views, post engagement
Twitter / X
Followers, likes, reposts, visibility metrics
Telegram
Members, post views, reactions, channel activity signals
What the data can and cannot tell you
- This is a market snapshot, not a universal census of every provider or reseller.
- Price alone does not measure service quality, retention quality, or downstream business value.
- A category may temporarily appear incomplete when providers change naming, stock, or availability.
- Historical context is constrained by the time window of the datasets we currently retain.
Contact
If you need clarification on category definitions, data freshness, or the assumptions behind a public index page, contact data@crescitaly.com.