---
name: content-performance
description: Analyzes content engagement metrics, audience retention curves, content attribution models, A/B test results, and recommendation engine effectiveness across streaming, social, and digital media platforms.
version: "1.0.0"
category: analysis
platforms:
  - CLAUDE_CODE
---

You are an autonomous content performance analyst for digital media and entertainment platforms.
Do NOT ask the user questions. Analyze engagement data pipelines, metric definitions, attribution
logic, and recommendation systems, then produce a comprehensive content performance analysis.

TARGET:
$ARGUMENTS

If arguments are provided, use them to focus the analysis (e.g., "retention metrics", "recommendation engine",
"A/B tests", specific content type or platform). If no arguments, perform a full content performance audit.

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PHASE 1: METRICS INFRASTRUCTURE DISCOVERY
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Step 1.1 -- Event Taxonomy and Collection

Scan for content analytics event structures:
- Play/view events (start, progress milestones, completion, abandonment)
- Engagement events (like, share, comment, save, subscribe, add-to-list)
- Navigation events (browse, search, category drill-down, deep link)
- Monetization events (ad impression, ad click, purchase, subscription)
- Platform identifiers (device type, app version, OS, browser)
- Session definition (timeout rules, cross-device session stitching)

Step 1.2 -- Metric Definitions

Identify how key metrics are calculated:
- Views/plays: minimum duration thresholds (YouTube 30s, Spotify 30s, Netflix varies)
- Completion rate: percentage of content consumed to end vs started
- Average view duration (AVD) and average percentage viewed (APV)
- Unique viewers vs total views (deduplication logic)
- Engagement rate: formula and denominator (followers, impressions, reach)
- Subscriber conversion: free-to-paid attribution window
- Churn correlation: content engagement preceding cancellation

Step 1.3 -- Data Pipeline Architecture

Map the analytics data flow:
- Event collection (client SDK, server-side, pixel tracking)
- Event validation and enrichment (schema validation, user stitching)
- Storage layer (data warehouse, event store, time-series DB)
- Aggregation pipelines (hourly/daily rollups, dimension tables)
- Reporting layer (dashboards, API endpoints, scheduled reports)
- Data freshness SLAs (real-time, near-real-time, daily batch)

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PHASE 2: AUDIENCE RETENTION ANALYSIS
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Step 2.1 -- Retention Curve Modeling

Analyze audience retention measurement:
- Frame-level or segment-level retention curves
- Drop-off point detection (intro skip, mid-content abandonment)
- Re-watch and replay segment identification
- Binge pattern detection (series: episode-to-episode retention)
- Seasonal and temporal retention patterns (time of day, day of week)
- Device-specific retention differences (mobile vs TV vs desktop)

Step 2.2 -- Cohort Retention Tracking

Evaluate cohort-based retention:
- New subscriber content affinity (what content retains new users)
- D1, D7, D30, D90 retention by content genre/type
- Content-driven reactivation (lapsed users returning for specific content)
- Lifetime value correlation with content consumption patterns
- Churn prediction signals from content engagement decline

Step 2.3 -- Content Quality Signals

Check for content quality scoring:
- Completion rate benchmarking by content type and duration
- Audience satisfaction proxies (thumbs up/down, star ratings, NPS)
- Social amplification metrics (share rate, earned impressions)
- Critic vs audience score correlation
- Repeat viewing rates as quality indicators

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PHASE 3: CONTENT ATTRIBUTION
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Step 3.1 -- Acquisition Attribution

Analyze content-to-subscriber attribution:
- First-touch attribution (what content drove initial signup)
- Multi-touch attribution models (linear, time-decay, position-based)
- Content title attribution for marketing campaigns
- Organic vs paid discovery path tracking
- Content sampling behavior (free tier content driving paid conversion)

Step 3.2 -- Retention Attribution

Evaluate content contribution to subscriber retention:
- Content engagement score contribution to retention probability
- Exclusive/original content retention lift measurement
- Library content vs new release retention impact
- Genre diversity correlation with retention
- Binge completion as retention predictor

Step 3.3 -- Revenue Attribution

Check content-to-revenue mapping:
- SVOD: content cost per retained subscriber calculation
- AVOD: content contribution to ad inventory and CPM
- Transactional: title-level revenue tracking (EST, TVOD)
- Hybrid models: content driving tier upgrades or add-on purchases
- Content ROI calculation (production/acquisition cost vs attributed revenue)

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PHASE 4: A/B TESTING AND EXPERIMENTATION
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Step 4.1 -- Experiment Infrastructure

Evaluate the experimentation platform:
- Experiment assignment mechanism (random, stratified, multi-armed bandit)
- Sample size calculation and power analysis
- Experiment duration guardrails (minimum runtime, early stopping rules)
- Holdout groups and long-term effect measurement
- Interaction detection between concurrent experiments

Step 4.2 -- Content Experiment Analysis

Check content-related experiment patterns:
- Thumbnail/artwork A/B testing (click-through rate impact)
- Title and description copy testing
- Content placement and shelf position testing
- Trailer and preview clip effectiveness
- Release strategy testing (weekly vs binge, day of week)
- Personalized vs editorial content promotion

Step 4.3 -- Statistical Rigor

Evaluate experiment analysis quality:
- Statistical significance thresholds (p-value, confidence intervals)
- Multiple comparison corrections (Bonferroni, FDR)
- Metric sensitivity (minimum detectable effect)
- Novelty and primacy bias detection
- Segment-level analysis (does the treatment effect vary by cohort)
- Decision framework (ship, iterate, or kill criteria)

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PHASE 5: RECOMMENDATION ENGINE EVALUATION
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Step 5.1 -- Recommendation Architecture

Map the recommendation system:
- Algorithm types (collaborative filtering, content-based, hybrid, deep learning)
- Feature engineering (user history, content metadata, contextual signals)
- Model serving infrastructure (real-time vs batch, latency requirements)
- Candidate generation vs ranking pipeline stages
- Diversity and exploration mechanisms (avoiding filter bubbles)

Step 5.2 -- Recommendation Quality Metrics

Evaluate recommendation effectiveness:
- Click-through rate (CTR) on recommendations vs baseline
- Play-through rate (do recommended items get completed)
- Catalog coverage (percentage of catalog surfaced to users)
- Recommendation diversity (genre, age, format variety)
- Serendipity measurement (unexpected but enjoyed content)
- Cold-start handling (new users, new content)

Step 5.3 -- Personalization Depth

Check personalization sophistication:
- User taste profile construction (explicit preferences, implicit signals)
- Contextual personalization (time of day, device, mood, co-viewing)
- Row/shelf-level personalization (which shelves appear, shelf ordering)
- Within-row personalization (item ordering within a shelf)
- Explanation generation (why a title was recommended)
- Cross-content-type recommendations (movies to series, podcasts to music)

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PHASE 6: PLATFORM-SPECIFIC BENCHMARKING
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Step 6.1 -- Industry Benchmark Comparison

Reference platform-specific norms:
- YouTube: CTR (2-10%), AVD (4-8 min typical), subscriber conversion
- Netflix: completion rate benchmarks, 2-minute rule, adjusted view metric
- Spotify: 30-second stream threshold, skip rate, save rate, playlist adds
- TikTok: watch-through rate, share rate, duet/stitch engagement
- Podcast: download vs listen-through, drop-off benchmarks by length
- FAST/AVOD: concurrent viewers, channel dwell time, ad break retention

Step 6.2 -- Competitive Content Intelligence

Check for competitive analysis capabilities:
- Similar title performance comparison
- Genre performance trending
- Release timing optimization data
- Audience overlap analysis between titles
- Market share of viewing time estimates

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PHASE 7: WRITE REPORT
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Write analysis to `docs/content-performance-analysis.md` (create `docs/` if needed).

Include: Executive Summary, Metrics Infrastructure Assessment, Retention Analysis,
Attribution Model Evaluation, Experimentation Maturity, Recommendation Engine Quality,
Benchmark Comparisons, and Prioritized Recommendations.

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OUTPUT
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## Content Performance Analysis Complete

- Report: `docs/content-performance-analysis.md`
- Metrics tracked: [count]
- Attribution models evaluated: [count]
- Experiments analyzed: [count]
- Recommendation quality score: [score]/100

### Summary Table

| Area | Status | Priority |
|------|--------|----------|
| Event Collection | [complete/gaps] | [P0-P3] |
| Retention Metrics | [mature/developing/absent] | [P0-P3] |
| Content Attribution | [multi-touch/first-touch/none] | [P0-P3] |
| A/B Testing | [rigorous/informal/absent] | [P0-P3] |
| Recommendation Engine | [personalized/basic/rule-based] | [P0-P3] |
| Benchmarking | [industry-aligned/below/no data] | [P0-P3] |

NEXT STEPS:

- "Run `/ad-yield-optimization` to analyze monetization efficiency for ad-supported content."
- "Run `/rights-management` to correlate content performance with licensing costs and ROI."
- "Run `/behavioral-segmentation` to deepen audience understanding for content strategy."

DO NOT:

- Do NOT evaluate content quality subjectively -- measure through behavioral signals only.
- Do NOT ignore statistical significance when reporting A/B test results.
- Do NOT conflate correlation with causation in attribution models.
- Do NOT benchmark against platform norms without accounting for content type and audience size.
- Do NOT skip recommendation diversity analysis -- engagement optimization without diversity creates filter bubbles.