New Marketing Effectiveness Scores to quantify Impact vs. Hype

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    Raphael Rocher

    Raphael Rocher contributes to VaaSBlock’s research and RMA™ assessments, specialising in operational risk, governance maturity, and cross-market analysis in Asian Web3 ecosystems. His background in product operations and compliance informs his work evaluating early-stage blockchain teams. He also hosts the NCNG podcast.

    A new data intelligence feature is available on the Platform: Marketing Effectiveness Scores, designed to objectively measure how well an organization’s marketing performance aligns with its token performance across both on-chain and off-chain ecosystems. Just as the Transparency Score sets a new standard in quantifying organizational openness, the Marketing Effectiveness Score offers a new dimension in understanding the real ROI of visibility strategies, moving beyond vanity metrics and into algorithmic accountability.

     

    What is the MES (Marketing Effectiveness Score)?

    The Marketing Effectiveness Score (rated from 0 to 100) assesses how efficiently a project’s marketing footprint translates into token market outcomes. It’s the first scoring framework to connect real-time token performance with quantifiable PR, community, and influencer activity, all in one place. The score is powered by irmaAI, VaaSBlock’s proprietary AI engine, which continuously monitors, ingests, and filters large-scale data from both on-chain behavior and off-chain communications, including:

      • Social media trends
      • Public relations activity

      • Web traffic

      • Token price movement and volume

      • Ecosystem metrics

      • Growth campaigns

      • More marketing data..

     

    How is the Score calculated?

    At the heart of the Marketing Effectiveness Score is a multi-layered algorithm developed by the VaaSBlock team, powered by our in-house AI engine, irmaAI. This model draws from a wide spectrum of public data sources, combining both off-chain marketing activity and on-chain token performance into one unified view.

    irmaAI continuously monitors major social platforms like Twitter, Discord, Reddit, Quora, and indexed news media to track how projects communicate, grow their communities, and maintain visibility. At the same time, it processes blockchain-native data (such as token volume shifts, liquidity depth, and holder distribution) to observe how the market actually reacts.

    By integrating temporal pattern analysis, the model evaluates whether a spike in marketing effort genuinely precedes token movement or merely trails it. All of this data is passed through a correlation-weighted mapping system, which is designed to filter signal from noise. The result is a score that reflects not just how much noise a project makes, but how effectively that noise converts into measurable outcomes.

     

     

    What you see on the VaaSBlock Platform

    Every organization listed on VaaSBlock now includes a dedicated Marketing Effectiveness panel, presenting a score between 0 and 100 that quantifies the connection between marketing activity and token performance. Accompanying this score is a Confidence Index, which tells users how statistically reliable the data behind the score is, depending on available signal strength.

    To further contextualize performance, each project also receives a VaaSBlock Rank, comparing its marketing effectiveness to every other entity tracked on the platform. This makes it easy to benchmark, spot underperforming marketing efforts, or identify projects that consistently convert visibility into real token traction.

    irmaAI keeps these scores up to date, recalculating as new social and on-chain data enters the system. This allows for real-time tracking of campaigns, sentiment shifts, and performance patterns as they evolve.

     

     

    Why It Matters

    In an ever growing interconnected AI and Web3 ecosystems, marketing is no longer just about visibility, it’s about verifiable impact. As capital flows into increasingly complex networks of protocols, assets, and AI-driven platforms, the ability to assess whether a project’s public narrative aligns with measurable results becomes absolutely critical.

    The Marketing Effectiveness Score offers a new lens to analyze how storytelling translates into actual market performance. It helps distinguish between genuine traction and orchestrated hype, a difference that has enormous implications across multiple verticals.

    For example, in compliance and risk monitoring, understanding how a token’s performance is influenced by promotional activity can help regulators and infrastructure providers detect anomalies, assess potential manipulations, or support enforcement frameworks. In quantitative trading, this score serves as a signal layer, revealing sentiment-driven volatility or flagging projects whose token behavior deviates from their marketing trendlines. Meanwhile, in due diligence and investment research, the score provides an objective filter to assess whether visibility translates into long-term viability.

     

     

    What’s Next?

    The launch of the Marketing Effectiveness Score marks a major milestone in the evolution of the VaaSBlock platform as a real-time, data-driven reputation and intelligence system for the Web3 and AI ecosystem. As we expand the scope of irmaAI, we are pushing toward higher analytical accuracy and contextual insight, helping users go beyond surface metrics to assess deeper market and behavioral patterns.

    This new layer of marketing intelligence opens the door to a wide range of high-impact use cases. In finance, it enables more granular token and project valuation strategies based on media sentiment, campaign consistency, and correlation to performance. In compliance, it strengthens the ability to detect market manipulation, orchestrated hype cycles, or anomalous attention patterns that may raise red flags for regulators or institutional gatekeepers.

    As we continue to refine the model, users can expect more customizable data views, correlated intelligence across scoring categories, and enhanced ways to compare organizational behavior and market performance. This is just one step toward our broader vision: to build a platform where visibility, trust, and verifiable data are deeply and transparently connected.

     

     

    Start now

    The new Marketing Effectiveness Scores are now on the VaaSBlock Platform.

    ⚭ This article has been co-created by VaaSBlock Consulting Team and irmaAI agent.

    Raphael Rocher Contributor

    Raphael Rocher is Contributor at VaaSBlock and host of the NCNG podcast, specialising in operational oversight, risk management practices, and cross-market research across emerging Web3 ecosystems. With a background bridging blockchain, compliance workflows, and product operations, he focuses on improving the structure, transparency, and maturity of early-stage crypto organisations.

    Based between Seoul and Southeast Asia, Raphael works closely with founders navigating complex market conditions, helping evaluate organisational processes, governance readiness, and long-term operational resilience. His work contributes to VaaSBlock’s independent scoring methodology and research outputs, particularly for projects expanding into Asian markets.

    Prior to VaaSBlock, Raphael held roles across product operations and systems implementation, giving him a practical understanding of how teams execute under pressure, scale infrastructure, and manage operational risk. This experience allows him to analyse Web3 teams not only from a technical or marketing lens, but from an organisational and cross-functional standpoint.

    Today, Raphael contributes to ecosystem research publications, RMA™ assessment reviews, and due-diligence guidance for projects aiming to demonstrate higher operational credibility. He frequently examines trends across Korean blockchain ecosystems, cross-chain infrastructure, and the evolving requirements placed on Web3 companies by investors, regulators, and institutional partners.