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Put Defensible Audience Numbers Behind Every Rights Pitch

Rights holders sell audiences — to sponsors, broadcasters and advertisers — but the digital half of that audience lives across official sites, fan forums, supporter blogs, fantasy platforms and statistics communities that panel measurement barely covers. The Cookieless Audience database pre-computes an audience profile for 102 million domains, with 51 sport-level interest codes, full demographics and ticket, merchandise and memorabilia purchase-intent segments. Value the whole ecosystem around a property — not just the flagship site — and pitch it with fixed, reproducible codes instead of estimates.

102Mdomains with pre-computed audience attributes
51sport-level interest codes under INT.sports.*
283purchase-intent segments incl. tickets & memorabilia
8age brackets + 5-point gender skew per domain
Aligned with IAB Audience Taxonomy 1.1 Fixed, versioned vocabularies (v1.0) Banded confidence: low / medium / high No PII anywhere in the pipeline Self-serve download, quarterly refresh
The rights holder’s problem

The fan economy is bigger than the properties you control

A club, league or federation can report its own site analytics. What it cannot easily prove is the audience of everything around it: the independent supporter sites, match-report blogs, fantasy and statistics communities, transfer-rumour forums and podcast companion pages where fans actually spend their time. Sponsors increasingly ask for exactly that — the shape and value of the full digital fanbase, not one property’s pageviews.

Panel-based measurement thins out fast below the head of the web, and cookie-based audience verification misses a growing share of traffic outright: cookies remain on Chrome, but Safari, Firefox and iOS block third-party cookies by default, putting roughly 40%+ of traffic beyond identifier-based counting. Fan sites — mobile-heavy, long-tail — sit squarely in that blind spot.

Domain-level audience profiles cover the gap. Each site’s demographics, sport-level interests and purchase intent are computed from the property itself, on fixed v1.0 vocabularies aligned with IAB Audience Taxonomy 1.1 — so the numbers in your deck are reproducible by the sponsor’s own analysts.

A rights portfolio, restated as codes

SportINT.sports.soccer
Second screenINT.television.sports_tv
Fantasy layerINT.sports.fantasy_sports
Ticket intentPI.arts_entertainment.ticket_services
Merch intentPI.collectables_antiques.sports_memorabilia_and_trading_cards

Filter the corpus on these values and the result is the measurable footprint of a fandom — every domain where it concentrates, with demographics attached. Per-URL granularity is available through the real-time API.

The data model

The fields a sponsorship story is made of

Every attribute comes from a fixed enumerated list — no free text, no vendor-specific segment names — documented in full on the audience segmentation taxonomy page.

Sport-level interests

51 codes under INT.sports.*soccer, basketball, cricket, auto_racing, golf, ice_hockey — plus fantasy_sports, INT.television.sports_tv and INT.music_audio.sports_radio for the second screen.

Fan demographics

8 age brackets, a 5-point gender skew, 6 income bands, 7 education levels and 14 life stages — the profile sponsors actually ask about when they ask “who is this fanbase?”.

Commercial intent

283 purchase-intent segments including PI.arts_entertainment.ticket_services, PI.arts_entertainment.fantasy_sports, PI.apps.sports_apps and PI.sporting_goods.athletics_equipment.

Context fields

Urbanicity, household composition, employment and home ownership round out the picture — useful when a sponsor’s category (autos, finance, travel) skews on exactly those lines.

Deterministic personas

1,667 named personas resolve the attribute combinations into labels a commercial deck can carry — the same inputs always produce the same persona.

Confidence bands

Every attribute carries a low / medium / high confidence band, so a pitch can state its evidence standard explicitly — and hold up under a sponsor’s due diligence.

Workflow

From rights property to valued footprint in five steps

The same sequence works for a league selling a title sponsorship, an agency valuing a rights package, or a club building its commercial deck.

Define the fandom

Pick the sport and second-screen codes that describe the property — e.g. INT.sports.soccer + fantasy_sports.

Map the ecosystem

Filter the 102M-domain corpus to sites where those interests concentrate: official, fan-run, statistical, editorial.

Profile the audience

Aggregate demographics and intent across the footprint — age, gender skew, income, ticket and merch intent.

Value the reach

Rank domains by audience fit and concentration; separate the property’s owned reach from its earned fan-site halo.

Package the pitch

Drop the profile into sponsor decks, rate-card justifications and media-rights negotiations — with codes a buyer can re-run.

Scale

Every fan site, not just the flagship

102Mdomains — official properties and the long-tail fan web
1,667deterministic personas for commercial decks
40%+of traffic is cookieless — described here all the same
v1.0versioned vocabularies — numbers reproducible next quarter
Worked example

Valuing a football club’s fan-site ecosystem

A club’s commercial team is renewing a shirt-sponsor conversation and wants to show the sponsor the digital fandom beyond the official site. Here is the ecosystem filter — codes on the left, what they read as on the right.

FieldFilter value (code)Reads as
interestINT.sports.soccerSoccer / football content
interest (layer 2)INT.sports.fantasy_sportsFantasy-game communities
age_bracket25_34 or 35_44Core commercial fan demographic
income_levelmiddle to highSponsor-relevant spending power
purchase intentPI.arts_entertainment.ticket_servicesActively shopping for tickets
purchase intent (2)PI.collectables_antiques.sports_memorabilia_and_trading_cardsMemorabilia & trading-card buyers
confidencemedium or highWell-evidenced attributes only
What comes back: a ranked list of domains — supporter forums, match-analysis blogs, fantasy-league tools, transfer-news sites — each with its full audience profile and per-attribute confidence (high / medium). The commercial team can now show the sponsor a quantified halo: how many properties the fandom concentrates on, who reads them, and what they are in market for. Run a comparable filter live in the audience demo dashboard.
Comparison

How this compares to the usual evidence in a rights deck

 Social follower countsPanel-based measurementDomain-level audience profiles (this dataset)
Covers fan sites & long tailNo — platform accounts onlyOnly panelled sites; thin below the headYes — 102M domains, head to tail
Demographic depthPlatform-reported, coarseGood on large sites, sparse elsewhereFull demographic, interest and intent model per domain
Commercial-intent signalNoneRarely available283 PI.* segments incl. tickets, merch, memorabilia
Reproducibility for a buyerScreenshotsPanel weighting shifts over timeFixed v1.0 codes — sponsor’s analysts can re-run the filter
Cookieless trafficN/APartially modelledFully covered — profile never depended on identifiers
Scope note: this dataset values and describes audiences for planning, packaging and pitching. It is not an impression-level pre-bid signal, and it does not replace contracted measurement in a media-rights deal — it gives the commercial team the audience evidence layer those tools don’t provide.
FAQ

Sports & media rights — common questions

Can I profile fan sites we don’t own or operate?

Yes — that is the core use. The database describes the audience of any domain in the corpus from its content and audience characteristics, so a rights holder can quantify the independent supporter sites, forums and fantasy communities around a property without needing access to their analytics. No PII is involved: the profile describes a readership, never an individual fan.

Will a sponsor’s analysts be able to verify our numbers?

That is the point of the fixed vocabularies. Every attribute comes from a versioned v1.0 enumerated list aligned with IAB Audience Taxonomy 1.1 — 51 sport interests, 283 intent segments, 8 age brackets and so on — with a banded confidence value per attribute. A sponsor who licenses the same file and runs the same codes gets the same list, which makes the deck auditable rather than anecdotal.

How does this handle fans on mobile Safari and in-app browsers?

Identically to everyone else. Cookies remain on Chrome, but Safari, Firefox and iOS block third-party cookies by default — roughly 40%+ of traffic is cookieless, and sports fandom skews mobile. Because the audience profile is attached to the domain rather than to visitor identifiers, fan sites with heavily cookieless traffic are described with the same fields and confidence bands as any other property.

What does a rights holder actually buy?

Most start with the top-1M domain file: $1,990 one-time or $590/quarter with instant checkout, full audience attributes included. The top-100k tier is $490 one-time ($190/quarter), and vertical or country slices — e.g. sport-heavy domains for one market — run $190–$490. Larger cuts up to the full 102M corpus, custom enrichment or recurring feeds are quoted individually. See pricing.

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Map your fandom’s digital footprint

Filter the live data in the demo dashboard, or download the top-1M file and have a quantified fan-ecosystem profile in your next sponsor deck.

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