News monitoring that shows every article about your brand
MentionAlert reads news sites and blogs around the clock and tells you when an article names your company, your products, your executives or your competitors. Syndicated copies of the same story are grouped into one item, sentiment is scored on each article, and your coverage rolls up into a weekly report you can forward without editing.
Press monitoring for news sites and blogs
Coverage rarely arrives in one place. A trade publication writes the first piece, a wire version spreads to regional outlets, and a blogger quotes it a week later with their own opinion. MentionAlert tracks all of it as public web content, so the PR team sees the whole life of a story instead of the first headline.
- National and regional news sites, trade press and industry publications.
- Company blogs, independent blogs and newsletters that publish on the open web.
- Articles in other languages, filtered by language and country when you only want your markets.
News coverage as it lands in your feed
| Source | Mention | Sentiment |
|---|---|---|
| News | NewsA business daily covers your latest funding announcementPositive | Positive |
| News | NewsA regional paper mentions your company in a hiring storyNeutral | Neutral |
| Blog | BlogAn industry blogger questions your recent price changeNegative | Negative |
| News | NewsA trade outlet cites your report in a market overviewPositive | Positive |
Illustrative sample, not your data.
Media coverage tracking with duplicates grouped
When one story is republished by many outlets, a raw feed turns into a wall of identical headlines. MentionAlert groups copies of the same article under one entry and lists every outlet that carried it. You read the story once, you still see how far it travelled, and your mention counts stay honest because the grouping is visible rather than hidden.
| What you see | How MentionAlert shows it |
|---|---|
| One original story | A single entry with the headline, outlet and date |
| Republished copies | A list of outlets under that entry |
| Different articles on the same topic | Separate entries, each with its own sentiment |
| Your executives quoted | Matched on their names as tracked keywords |
What a PR team does with news alerts
An alert is useful when it changes what you do that day. These are the situations news monitoring is built for.
- A journalist publishes a story about your launch and you share it on your channels the same morning.
- An article quotes your company with a wrong figure and you ask for a correction while the piece is fresh.
- A trade publication covers a competitor funding round and your leadership hears it from you, not from an investor.
- A regional outlet picks up a customer complaint and support reaches out before it becomes a wider story.
- A blogger reviews your product category and leaves you out, which is a pitch opportunity for next time.
The workflow for press teams in particular is on the pr monitoring tools page.
News alerts that skip the noise
Company names collide with common words, place names and other businesses. Include and exclude words narrow each keyword, and you can restrict it to news and blogs only, to one language or to one country. Routing is set per keyword, so press coverage goes to the PR inbox as an instant email, competitor news lands in a daily digest, and articles about a product line go to the right Slack channel on Team and higher plans.
News monitoring reports for leadership
Coverage needs to be shown, not only read. Starter sends a weekly email summary with article counts and top stories. Team adds a weekly PDF report and CSV export of every article. Agency sends white-label PDF reports to each client on a schedule, and Enterprise uses custom report templates. Layouts are described on the media monitoring reports page, and social coverage can sit in the same report through the social media monitoring tool.
Which plan fits your news monitoring
Yearly billing is the default and costs half of the monthly price.
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Keywords | Mentions per month | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $49 | $24 per month ($288 per year) | 5 | 5,000 | 30 days |
| Team | $149 | $74 per month ($888 per year) | 20 | 25,000 | 12 months |
| Agency | $399 | $199 per month ($2,388 per year) | 80 | 100,000 | 24 months |
| Enterprise | $999 | $499 per month ($5,988 per year) | 300 | 500,000 | 36 months |
A PR team tracking one company and a few competitors usually starts on Team for the PDF report and the 12 month archive. Every limit is listed on the media monitoring tools page.
News monitoring questions
MentionAlert covers public news sites, trade publications and blogs worldwide that publish on the open web. Articles behind a paywall or a login are not read, although a public headline and summary may still be collected when the outlet publishes them openly.
Copies of the same story are grouped under one entry with a list of every outlet that carried it. Each collected copy still counts toward your monthly mention quota, and you can see exactly which outlets those copies came from.
Yes. Add each name as a tracked keyword and use include words, such as your company name, to keep namesakes out of the feed. Executive mentions can be routed to a different inbox from company coverage.
History depends on the plan, from 30 days on Starter to 12 months on Team, 24 months on Agency and 36 months on Enterprise. Collection starts when you add a keyword.
Team and higher plans export every article to CSV and receive a weekly PDF report. Starter receives a weekly email summary of its coverage.