Methodology: how Edvido listings are built and ordered
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This page explains how Edvido's category, city and district listings are built, what affects the order and what we do not measure. The order of a listing is not a quality score or a recommendation.
Who appears in a listing?
- Edvido member agencies and software companies. Agencies cannot self-register: they apply, hold a one-to-one meeting with the Edvido team and are listed only after that meeting.
- On some city and district pages, companies that are not Edvido members. These are compiled from public business listings, shown after member agencies and not verified by Edvido.
The Edvido assessment: what affects the order?
The order of member agencies comes from Edvido's own assessment. Signals the assessment may take into account include:
- Category fit and expertise: the agency offers this service and has experience in it.
- Portfolio and projects: the work the agency has published, especially in this category.
- Brands worked with: the scale and range of the brands the agency works with.
- Client satisfaction: approved client reviews and feedback.
- Profile completeness: team, services, prices and contact details are complete and up to date.
- Digital visibility: how visible the agency is in search engines and in AI assistants' answers.
- Membership plan: agencies on a paid membership plan may appear higher in the listing.
- Edvido team review: the Edvido team can manually change an agency's position within the platform rules.
- Location on district pages: agencies with an office in that district are shown first.
How the order can change
We do not publish the assessment score, its weights or how these signals are combined; the assessment may change over time. When a signal that affects the order changes materially, we update this page and the changelog.
Sponsored placements
Advertising agencies are shown at the top of the listing with a "Sponsored" label, separate from the organic order. Sponsored placements are not described as "leading agencies" in the page summary.
What the order does not mean
- The order is not a quality score, an award or a recommendation.
- Edvido does not measure or guarantee the quality of an agency's work; the contract is between the brand and the agency.
- Listing order and brief matching are separate: when you send a brief, matching is based on the service, scope and budget of your brief.
Where the numbers on a page come from
- The agency count in the title and summary is calculated from the agencies listed on the page at that moment, not typed in by hand.
- Small, mid-size, large: the employee range the agency states on its profile (small 1-9, mid-size 10-49, large 50+).
- Agency prices are the starting prices agencies state on their own profiles; Edvido does not verify them.
- The Google rating on an agency profile is the public rating on Google Maps, shown under a "Google Reviews" heading.
- Platform-wide figures (500+ agencies, 40,000+ brands, 70+ categories) are based on Edvido's own records. Category and city pages show their own live lists.
What we do not measure
- The quality or results of the work an agency delivers.
- Whether the prices an agency states are current or accurate.
- An agency's financial standing, licences or legal compliance.
Machine-readable data
Member agency counts and size distribution by category are published as JSON: https://www.edvido.com/data/agencies.json. You may use them with attribution (edvido.com). Change history: https://www.edvido.com/changelog.json
Found an error?
If a listing shows wrong or outdated information, write to info@edvido.com. We apply verified corrections and record corrections that change a claim or the method in the changelog. Our commercial relationships: Transparency.
