Crewvale Terms Index
How the Crewvale Terms Index is computed
In short
The Terms Index aggregates the terms that agencies publish on Crewvale. A figure is shown only when at least 5 agencies stand behind it, agencies are never named or ranked, and each quarterly edition is frozen when it is published.
What the index measures
Every agency on Crewvale publishes six terms. The index reports five figures from them: the median revenue share, the share of agencies offering rolling contracts, the median notice period, the share of agencies where creators keep their own accounts, and how agencies charge (a revenue share, a fixed fee, or a share plus a fee).
Which agencies count
Every agency creators can find on Crewvale on the day an edition is taken: published, with all six terms published. Only the terms in force count; a change still waiting for review does not.
Markets and platforms
Figures are given for all agencies together, then by market (the markets an agency says it serves) and by platform (the platforms it works on). An agency counts in every market and on every platform it lists, so the groups overlap and don’t add up to the total.
At least 5 agencies behind every figure
A figure is published only when at least 5 agencies stand behind it. Below that, the table says “not enough agencies yet” and the edition stores no value at all, so no figure can be traced back to a single agency. The median revenue share counts only agencies that charge a share, so it can be withheld while the rest of a group is shown.
How the figures are calculated
A median is the middle value: half of the agencies are at or above it, half at or below. With an even number of agencies, it is the average of the two middle values. Shares are rounded to the nearest whole percent, so they may not add up to exactly 100%.
What the index does not tell you
The figures describe the terms agencies publish on Crewvale, not every agency in the industry, and not the offer any one creator will get. Agencies cannot pay to appear in the index or to change it, and it never names or ranks them.
Editions
The index is taken once a quarter. Each edition is frozen when it is published: its figures never change afterwards, and later changes to agencies’ terms appear in the next edition.
Using the data
Each edition can be downloaded as a CSV file and is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0): you may share and adapt it, also commercially, as long as you credit Crewvale. Each edition shows a suggested citation.
The first edition will be published when enough agencies publish their terms on Crewvale.
All editions of the Terms Index