Equivalent advertising value (EAV) is generally used by the Public Relations Industry as a device to measure the advantage to a client from media coverage of a PR campaign. AVE’s would generally calculate the scale of the coverage required, its positioning and then estimate what the comparable amount of space, if budgeted for as advertising, would cost? Commonly a multiplier would be applied – frequently in the range of 3 to 10 – to allow for the integrity factor of news copy over advertising.




