Media monitoring and analysis: new launches

PeakMetrics: Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools

2026-11-06T00:00:00Z

PeakMetrics says Gartner named it a Visionary in the first Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools, dated Oct 20, 2026.

PeakMetrics (peakmetrics.com). Announced Nov. 5, 2026.

Analyst placement: Visionary, Gartner Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools.

Source: PeakMetrics (Nov 5, 2026).

LexisNexis Newsdesk: Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools

2026-11-06T00:00:00Z

LexisNexis Legal & Professional says Gartner named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools.

LexisNexis Newsdesk (lexisnexis.com). Announced Nov. 5, 2026.

Analyst placement: Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools.

Source: LexisNexis press room (Nov 5, 2026).

Truescope: Truescope media intelligence inside Telum Media, starting in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore

2026-11-06T00:00:00Z

Truescope and Telum Media announced a partnership that brings Truescope's media intelligence into Telum from Nov 4, 2026, starting in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.

Truescope (truescope.com). Available Nov. 4, 2026.

Source: Truescope news (Nov 4, 2026).

Signal AI: Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools

2026-11-06T00:00:00Z

Signal AI says Gartner named it a Leader in the first Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools, dated Oct 20, 2026.

Signal AI (signal-ai.com). Announced Oct. 30, 2026.

Analyst placement: Leader, Gartner Magic Quadrant for PR and Media Monitoring Tools.

Source: Signal AI press release (Oct 30, 2026).

Wizikey: Wizikey AEO Module tracks brand visibility in AI answers

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

The module tracks how brands appear in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude answers, with AI share of voice, rival mentions, cited sites, citation gaps and AEO reports.

Wizikey (wizikey.com). Announced Oct. 26, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Source: Wizikey blog.

All Ears: Opens a hosted MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Customers can add All Ears as a connector in an AI assistant and ask about their brand in plain language. Answers draw on their existing monitors, and they can create new monitors from the chat.

All Ears (allears.ai). Available Oct. 26, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server, Media monitoring, Reporting and measurement.

Source: All Ears blog.

Webz.io: Releases a Gemini CLI extension for seven Webz.io MCP servers

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Gemini CLI users can install one extension to reach Webz.io news, blogs and forums data. It connects seven hosted MCP servers.

Webz.io (webz.io). Available Oct. 25, 2026.

Features: Plugin, MCP servers and connectors, Media monitoring.

Source: Webz.io GitHub.

Cortex Intelligence: Brings Cortex Growth market data into Claude with an MCP connector

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A Claude admin can install the Cortex Growth MCP connector, so each user can query Cortex market data inside Claude next to their CRM and calendar. It reuses the user's Cortex login, permissions and credits.

Cortex Intelligence (cortex-intelligence.com). Available Oct. 23, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Cortex blog.

Contify: Launches upgraded platform with redesigned interface and monitoring controls

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

The M&CI platform gets a new interface, more monitoring controls and coverage of 1.1M+ sources. It also improves MCP access from AI tools.

Contify (contify.com). Available Oct. 22, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Contify newsroom.

NetBase Quid: Adds average engagement to Quid Trends

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

The Quid Trends side panel now shows average engagement for each TikTok trend next to reach, so users can see whether people acted on a trend as well as saw it.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Announced Oct. 22, 2026.

Features: Trend detection.

Source: Quid product release.

aclipp: aclipp MCP server leaves beta and adds write tools

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

The MCP server is now generally available and can create clippings and author reports and dashboards with approved permissions, with OAuth sign-in for interactive clients.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Available Oct. 21, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: aclipp product updates.

aclipp: aclipp API leaves beta

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

The aclipp REST API is out of beta. Workspace admins create scoped API keys in workspace settings to connect internal tools to projects, clippings, reports, dashboards and AI visibility data.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Available Oct. 21, 2026.

Source: aclipp updates.

Webz.io: Launches News Answers API with cited answers from the news

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Users ask a question in plain language and get an answer drawn from news coverage. Each answer cites the articles it used.

Webz.io (webz.io). Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.

Source: Webz.io blog.

Synoptic: Synoptic Cursor plugin

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

A Cursor plugin that connects Synoptic's MCP server and skills, so the agent can find and read live feeds such as press releases and SEC filings, set up source monitors and publish feeds.

Synoptic (synoptic.com). Announced Oct. 17, 2026.

Features: Plugin, Media monitoring, Agent skill.

Source: synoptic-com/cursor-plugins on GitHub.

Synoptic: Lists its hosted MCP server in the official MCP registry

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Synoptic runs a hosted MCP server at mcp.api.synoptic.com. AI assistants can follow live feeds from X, Telegram, press releases and SEC filings through it, and publish their own.

Synoptic (synoptic.com). Available Oct. 17, 2026.

Features: MCP server, Media monitoring.

Source: Official MCP Registry (com.synoptic/synoptic, publishedAt 2026-10-17).

Synoptic: Synoptic Claude plugin

2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

A Claude plugin with 7 skills and a remote MCP connector to Synoptic's feed marketplace of press releases, SEC filings and court dockets. Public stream discovery needs no account; every other tool does.

Synoptic (synoptic.com). Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Plugin.

In the skills library.

Source: GitHub commit.

Determ: Determ AI Visibility tracks how AI assistants describe your brand

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Asks your chosen prompts every day on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other models. It reports brand mentions, order, sentiment and the websites the answers cite, against competitors.

Determ (determ.com). Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Sources: Determ blog, Determ blog.

Synoptic: Adds a White House Press Pool feed to its marketplace

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A White House Press Pool feed joined the Synoptic marketplace. It carries pool reports, the President's schedule and full executive orders, often before the White House site posts them.

Synoptic (synoptic.com). Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Synoptic on X.

APITube: Launches a Cyber Security API for cyber crime news

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A new feed returns cyber crime and cyber warfare news. Each article lists vulnerability IDs, affected vendors and severity.

APITube (apitube.io). Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: APITube changelog.

Diffbot: Adds a news search tool to its MCP server

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

The MCP server now has typed search tools, including one for news articles, press releases and blog posts. Tool schemas use about a quarter fewer tokens.

Diffbot (diffbot.com). Available Oct. 15, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors, Media monitoring.

Source: Diffbot changelog.

NetBase Quid: Ask Q upgrade: multi-dataset questions

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

Ask Q now answers one question across several datasets, plans the steps to an answer, and reaches company and patent data from Quid Discover.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Available Oct. 15, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.

Source: Quid blog.

In PR software this week: Oct. 5 to 19, 2026.

NewsAPI.ai: Releases a Claude Code plugin with six news research skills

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A Claude Code plugin bundles the hosted MCP server with six research skills for news, due diligence, risk, markets, politics and source analysis.

NewsAPI.ai (newsapi.ai). Available Oct. 13, 2026.

Features: Plugin, Agent skill.

Source: NewsAPI.ai MCP changelog (GitHub).

NewsAPI.ai: Launches hosted MCP server with account sign-in

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A hosted MCP server at mcp.newsapi.ai lets users connect Claude and other assistants by logging in, with no API key to paste.

NewsAPI.ai (newsapi.ai). Available Oct. 13, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: NewsAPI.ai MCP changelog (GitHub).

Truescope: Adds sentiment, AI summary and search filter for social comments

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Comments on social posts now show net sentiment, an AI summary and a new search filter, for services with comment ingestion.

Truescope (truescope.com). Announced Oct. 13, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis, Media monitoring.

Source: Truescope product updates.

NewsData.io: Opens sentiment and tags to Free and Basic plans

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Sentiment analysis and article tags were only on the Professional and Corporate plans. Free and Basic users now get them too.

NewsData.io (newsdata.io). Announced Oct. 12, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis.

Source: NewsData.io changelog.

Perigon: Adds OAuth sign-in for the Perigon MCP server

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Claude, Cursor, Codex and other MCP clients can connect to Perigon through OAuth with an org-scoped token instead of a shared API key.

Perigon (perigon.io). Announced Oct. 12, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Perigon changelog.

GNews API: Adds LangChain tools for news search and top headlines

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

The langchain-gnews package gives LangChain and LangGraph agents two news tools. Agents can search dated articles by topic, company or person, or pull top headlines.

GNews API (gnews.io). Available Oct. 12, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, Media monitoring.

Source: GNews GitHub.

aclipp: Adds language filter for clippings

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

aclipp detects each clipping's language automatically, so users can filter coverage and control what integrations import.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Announced Oct. 12, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: aclipp product updates.

NetBase Quid: Q Alerts

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scheduled alerts on a dataset: metric alerts fire when volume, sentiment or engagement crosses a threshold; post alerts fire when a post matches a plain-language description.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Available Oct. 8, 2026.

Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.

Source: Quid blog.

Talkwalker: Adds Lumen Agent to Hootsuite's Wisdom assistant

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Hootsuite users can pick a Lumen agent inside Wisdom and get social-listening answers from Quick Search over the last 7 days, with citations, without a Lumen by Talkwalker account.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Announced Oct. 7, 2026.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, Trend detection, Media monitoring.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

NewsWhip: Adds Multi-Network Digests

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

One digest email can now combine top content, totals, themes and period-over-period change from several networks instead of one email per network.

NewsWhip (newswhip.com). Available Oct. 6, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Reporting and measurement.

Source: NewsWhip Release Notes 2026.

Brand24: Adds Threads monitoring

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Brand24 tracks public Threads posts and comments that match project keywords once a Threads account is connected.

Brand24 (brand24.com). Announced Oct. 6, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Brand24 changelog.

HeyJared: Relaunches as a coverage search and report tool for news, podcasts and YouTube

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Users type a company or person and get one report of every mention across news, podcasts, newsletters and YouTube. They can follow a name for email alerts and see suggested reporters and hosts with a drafted note.

HeyJared (heyjared.ai). Available Oct. 5, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis, Journalist research, Pitch writing.

Source: HeyJared homepage (Wayback Machine).

Contify: Adds a guided query builder for advanced searches

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A guided builder sets field, match rules and AND/OR logic for searches and tags. Raw Boolean rules remain available.

Contify (contify.com). Announced Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Contify blog.

Brandwatch: Adds cross-network publishing in Publish (beta)

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Teams can create, customize and schedule one post for several social networks in a single workflow. Each network version can still be edited on its own.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced October 2026. In beta.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management Help Center.

Contify: Creates insight templates from plain-language descriptions

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

You describe the analysis you want, and AI drafts the insight template and its prompt. You can edit or regenerate it.

Contify (contify.com). Announced Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis.

Source: Contify blog.

Brandwatch: Upgrades Engage sentiment analysis with a new AI model

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Engage now tags incoming messages as positive, negative or neutral with a newer AI model. Brandwatch says it is more reliable across languages, so teams can triage messages faster.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced October 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management Help Center.

Contify: Fills newsletter sections from saved searches

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Newsletter templates can link to saved searches and fetch matching updates for each section. A refresh pulls in new matches without rebuilding the draft.

Contify (contify.com). Announced Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Contify blog.

Brandwatch: Adds Power BI integration for Publish and Measure data

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Teams can send Publish and Measure data to Power BI. They pick up to 40 metrics of each type across up to 60 channels.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced October 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management Help Center.

Brandwatch: Adds Instagram Collab posts to Measure

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Measure now counts Instagram Collab posts where a connected account took part as a collaborator. A new filter separates creator, collaborator and standard posts.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced October 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management Help Center.

Kinetiq: Connects Kinetiq Political Insights to XR's ad delivery platform

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Political advertisers using XR (Extreme Reach) can see real-time political ad intelligence from Kinetiq Political Insights next to campaign delivery, so they can change media plans while ads run.

Kinetiq (kinetiq.tv). Announced Sept. 30, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Kinetiq news.

Talkwalker: Adds Threads public profile monitoring

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Users can add any public Threads profile as a channel in Channel Analytics to track competitors, influencers and industry accounts.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Announced Sept. 30, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

Podscan: Is acquired by Audiohook

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Audio ad platform Audiohook bought Podscan; the deal closed on August 24, 2026. Founder Arvid Kahl joined Audiohook to run the platform, now called Podscan by Audiohook.

Podscan (podscan.fm). Announced Sept. 30, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Audiohook press release (Podnews).

Podscan: Makes podcast brand monitoring free for advertisers

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Advertisers can now track their brand mentions across podcasts, with context and sentiment, at no cost. Creators, networks and publishers also get free transcripts and brand-suitability data for their own shows.

Podscan (podscan.fm). Announced Sept. 30, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Audiohook press release (Podnews).

NetBase Quid: Live Briefs

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Briefs that refresh on a set cadence from monthly to hourly, with custom filters and Ask Q running on the same data.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Available Sept. 30, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Quid blog.

Signal AI: Connects Signal AI to Gemini Enterprise via MCP

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Gemini Enterprise agents can pull Signal AI's external risk and reputation intelligence into their workflows through a custom MCP server connection.

Signal AI (signal-ai.com). Announced Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: Signal AI blog.

Brandwatch: Adds keyword content classification in Engage

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Engage tags incoming messages with keyword classifiers, built with Iris AI or pre-built for spam, toxicity and profanity, to filter, route and automate.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced Sept. 29, 2026.

Source: Brandwatch blog.

Brandwatch: Iris AI Query Health

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Assesses a Consumer Research query and applies recommended fixes in one click.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Brandwatch blog.

Brandwatch: Iris AI Query Fixer

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Part of the Iris AI query workflow for Consumer Research that repairs weak queries.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Brandwatch blog.

Brandwatch: Iris AI Categories

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Iris samples the data and suggests parent and child categories that the user reviews and applies.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis.

Source: Brandwatch blog.

Brandwatch: AI summaries in Alert and Signal emails

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Optional AI-generated summary in Alert and Signal emails explaining the change that triggered the alert.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis.

Source: Brandwatch blog.

Brandwatch: Semantic search for YouTube creators (Influence)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Finds YouTube creators by the meaning of their video titles and descriptions rather than keywords.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Source: Brandwatch blog.

Talkwalker: Adds Public YouTube Catalog of 15,000 monitored accounts

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Matching YouTube posts from a Hootsuite-owned catalog of 15,000 accounts (expanding to 30,000) flow into topic and Quick Search results with no setup.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Announced Sept. 28, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

Truescope: Adds permanent links for reports

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Any report can get one fixed URL that always opens the latest edition, with no Truescope login needed to read it.

Truescope (truescope.com). Announced Sept. 28, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Truescope product updates.

NetBase Quid: Quid MCP

2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

MCP server that lets Claude, Copilot and other MCP clients query Quid datasets through Ask Q, run Q Agents and read trend leaderboards; needs a Quid Terminal account.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Available Sept. 28, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

In the skills library.

Source: Quid blog.

Talkwalker: Expands AI Widget Insights to more summaries and table widgets

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

AI Widget Insights now allows up to 6 AI summaries per page, adds AI summaries on Citations table widgets and a redesigned full-screen side-by-side view.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Announced Sept. 23, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

YouScan: Upgrades Insights Copilot agent with multi-step, cross-competitor analysis

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

The new Insights Copilot answers one question across a whole competitive set, plans multi-step analysis, sets filters from plain language and writes shareable reports.

YouScan (youscan.io). Announced Sept. 23, 2026.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.

Source: YouScan blog (News & Updates).

Contify: Upgrades its MCP server to bring verified intelligence into AI assistants

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

The MCP server gives ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and other assistants Contify's insights and the verified updates behind them. Answers come with source citations.

Contify (contify.com). Available Sept. 22, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Contify newsroom.

NetBase Quid: Podcast search returns labeled segments, with coverage up to 35,000 shows

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Podcast results in Quid are now split into AI-labeled segments (interview, ad, topic discussion and others) with speaker names and roles. Coverage grew from about 24,000 to 35,000 podcasts.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Available Sept. 21, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Quid product release.

aclipp: Microsoft Copilot in AI Visibility

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Adds Microsoft Copilot to the AI assistants tracked for brand visibility.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Available Sept. 18, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: aclipp.

PeakMetrics: AI Perceptions

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

GEO product for communications teams that tracks how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity describe a brand, which narratives, citations and sources drive the answers, and benchmarks against competitors.

PeakMetrics (peakmetrics.com). Available Sept. 17, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Source: PeakMetrics.

Brand24: Adds owned vs earned Channel type filter

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Mentions are classified automatically as Owned (the brand's own sites and profiles) or Earned, and the filter works in mentions and reports.

Brand24 (brand24.com). Announced Sept. 16, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.

Source: Brand24 changelog.

Webz.io: Releases an n8n community node for News Search

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Teams can add Webz.io news search to n8n automation workflows. The release also ships agent workflow templates.

Webz.io (webz.io). Available Sept. 16, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Webz.io GitHub.

Talkwalker: Wisdom in Lumen: Widget Aware for Dashboards

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Wisdom scopes its answers to the dashboard widget the user selects.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Available Sept. 16, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: Hootsuite what's new.

aclipp: Website Audit

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Checks whether AI assistants can reach, read and quote a brand's website.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Available Sept. 16, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Source: aclipp.

NetBase Quid: Fortune 1000 CEOs on LinkedIn dataset

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

A new certified dataset collects what Fortune 1000 chief executives post on LinkedIn since 2016, tagged by company, CEO, industry and ticker and refreshed weekly.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Announced Sept. 14, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Quid product release.

Perigon: Adds in-session preview of Insights reports and files

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Insights shows generated Office documents, PDFs, HTML and spreadsheets inside the chat so users can check reports without downloading them.

Perigon (perigon.io). Announced Sept. 14, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Perigon changelog.

NewsWhip: Adds AI sentiment analysis that scores coverage against your own rules

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A new AI Analysis widget reads each article in a search and classifies how it lands for your brand. Teams can set their own sentiment rules or custom categories and trace each data point to its articles.

NewsWhip (newswhip.com). Announced Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis, Media monitoring, Reporting and measurement.

Source: NewsWhip help center.

APITube: Adds bulk dataset exports of up to a year of articles

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Users can export up to 366 days of matching articles to JSONL, CSV or Parquet from the dashboard.

APITube (apitube.io). Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: APITube changelog.

Handraise: Handraise files Form D for an equity offering

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

A Form D filed with the SEC on 9 Sep 2026 reports $4,531,175 sold toward a $10,531,276 equity offering, first sale on 25 Aug 2026, eight investors; the sold amount includes a converted SAFE.

Handraise (handraise.com). Announced Sept. 9, 2026.

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D (Handraise Inc.).

Brand24: Detects keywords spoken inside TikTok videos

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Brand24 collects TikTok videos whose transcription contains a keyword, with timestamps, even when the description does not mention it.

Brand24 (brand24.com). Announced Sept. 9, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Brand24 changelog.

Contify: Named in the Forrester Wave for Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

The Forrester Wave evaluates vendors of market and competitive intelligence platforms. This is the Q3 2026 edition.

Contify (contify.com). Announced Sept. 8, 2026.

Analyst placement: Forrester Wave: Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms.

Source: Contify newsroom.

Diffbot: Releases an OpenClaw plugin with Knowledge Graph and news search tools

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

An OpenClaw plugin gives agents Diffbot tools, including typed news search, plus ten bundled skills. It installs from GitHub; the ClawHub listing is pending.

Diffbot (diffbot.com). Available Sept. 8, 2026.

Features: Plugin, Media monitoring.

Source: Diffbot on GitHub.

Pendulum: Launches the Actions Agent for response plans

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Users describe a situation in plain language and upload their playbook; the agent checks mention data and returns a brief with root causes, similar past incidents, recommended responses and draft holding statements.

Pendulum (pendulumintel.com). Announced Sept. 8, 2026.

Features: AI agents, Coverage analysis.

Source: Pendulum blog.

aclipp: Competitor tracking for clippings

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

aclipp compares a brand's PR results with competitors over time.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Available Sept. 8, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.

Source: aclipp (Product Updates, page 1).

NetBase Quid: Ask Q answers in every language, at two depths

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Ask Q in Quid Terminal now answers from the last 30 days of news and social conversation in all languages, not English only, with a quick mode and a deeper reasoning mode.

NetBase Quid (quid.com). Announced Sept. 3, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: Quid product release.

Truescope: Improves API with analytics and comments

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

The Truescope API now returns aggregated analytics and social comments, with new browser-testable documentation.

Truescope (truescope.com). Announced Sept. 3, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Truescope product updates.

Sequencr: Influencer Discovery Agent

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Builds a search strategy from a brief, asks the user to approve it, then runs a semantic search for creators who match the brand's tone, audience and intent.

Sequencr (sequencr.ai). Announced Sept. 3, 2026.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Sequencr insights.

Talkwalker: Adds citation tracking and prominence scores to LLM Insights

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

LLM Insights adds a Citations & Sources table, Brand Perspective prompt setup, and Visibility Score and Average Position metrics for brand answers in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Announced Sept. 2, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

Brand24: Advanced Search with Boolean, phrase and proximity operators

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Advanced Search finds mentions with AND, OR and NOT, grouped conditions, exact phrases and proximity across mention content, titles, hosts and authors. AI Helper and AI Brand Assistant can write the query from a plain-language description.

Brand24 (brand24.com). Available Sept. 2, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Chat assistant.

Source: Brand24 changelog.

aclipp: Search queries in AI Visibility

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shows the web searches AI models run while answering tracked prompts.

aclipp (aclipp.com). Available Sept. 2, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: aclipp.

Cortex Intelligence: Cortex Live opens Cortex data to customer agents and lakehouses

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Cortex Live is a data layer that people and agents can query. Customers can use it inside Cortex, in their own lakehouse, or from their own AI agent through a context protocol.

Cortex Intelligence (cortex-intelligence.com). Announced Sept. 1, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Cortex blog (Cortex Summit 2026 recap).

Critical Mention: Becomes the Mention module, adding global print, social and premium content

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

In the US, Critical Mention's monitoring and analytics now run as the Mention module of Onclusive's Unified Platform. The module adds global print, more social channels and premium content to Critical Mention's broadcast and online coverage.

Critical Mention (criticalmention.com). Available Sept. 1, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Onclusive newsroom.

Brandwatch: Adds custom comparison periods in Measure

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Dashboards can compare a date range against year-on-year or any custom period.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced September 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management product updates (September 2026).

Brandwatch: Adds Threads as a Listen data source

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Listen monitors owned Threads content and brand mentions in near real time, with Iris AI summaries.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced September 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management product updates (September 2026).

Brandwatch: Adds automated case creation with contact info

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Automation rules can open a case with the social user's contact details in supported case management tools.

Brandwatch (brandwatch.com). Announced September 2026.

Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management product updates (September 2026).

Podscan: Adds Brand Console tools and free MCP access for verified brands

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

AI assistants can now list a team's brands and pull each brand's podcast mentions, reach, sentiment and share of voice. Brands with a verified domain get 100 free MCP calls a day.

Podscan (podscan.fm). Announced September 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server, Media monitoring.

Source: Podscan MCP server docs.

Cortex Intelligence: Cortex Brand agentic layer

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Agentic layer that follows coverage of the brand, notices narrative shifts on its own and returns context, cause and a recommendation.

Cortex Intelligence (cortex-intelligence.com). Announced Sept. 1, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.

Source: Cortex.

Kinetiq: Audience reach for video news release (VNR) airings

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Adds audience reach data from OLOQIQI to each detected VNR airing, so communications teams can quantify earned broadcast exposure by market; available on demand per campaign.

Kinetiq (kinetiq.tv). Available Sept. 1, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Kinetiq.

Determ: Signs EU grant to build CRISP AI, an early crisis-warning service

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Determ leads an EU-funded project with Bornfight and the Catholic University of Croatia to build a service that predicts reputation crises. It will analyze text, radio and TV in real time with LLMs. The project is worth 3.65 million euros.

Determ (determ.com). Announced Aug. 31, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.

Source: Determ EU project page.

Talkwalker: Adds Kinetiq TV and radio monitoring

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Talkwalker Listening adds Kinetiq as a paid broadcast data provider, in NA + Europe and Global tiers, alongside existing TVEyes coverage.

Talkwalker (talkwalker.com). Announced Aug. 31, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: Hootsuite What's New (Lumen by Talkwalker).

NewsCatcher: Launches NewsMCP, a news MCP server for AI agents

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

NewsMCP gives Claude, ChatGPT and coding agents deduplicated news events with citations. A keyless browser playground lets anyone try it.

NewsCatcher (newscatcherapi.com). Available Aug. 28, 2026.

Features: MCP server, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: NewsCatcher blog.

AskNews: Releases AskNews CLI with an embedded agent skill

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

A command-line tool runs AskNews searches, research and alerts from a terminal or coding agent. It ships an Agent Skill that tells agents how to use it.

AskNews (asknews.app). Available Aug. 28, 2026.

Features: Agent skill, Media monitoring.

Source: AskNews CLI on GitHub.

Delve: Adds custom themes for theme-level share of voice

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Teams can define their own themes on top of Delve's built-in catalog. Delve then tags new coverage against them, so teams can filter the Tracker and compare share of voice within a theme.

Delve (delve.news). Announced Aug. 27, 2026.

Features: Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Delve Docs.

NewsCatcher: Adds curated source groups and event tagging

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Searches can be limited to curated lists of trusted outlets, such as top US finance sites. Watchlist results now carry an event type and sector tag.

NewsCatcher (newscatcherapi.com). Available Aug. 26, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.

Source: NewsCatcher CatchAll API changelog.

PigPR: Adds weekly competitor ad alerts

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

PigPR checks the Meta and Google ad libraries weekly for up to five named competitors per client and reports new and stopped ads in Reports and the weekly digest.

PigPR (pigpr.com). Available Aug. 25, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: PigPR blog.

TVEyes: Launches TVEyes Archive+ for historical broadcast and podcast search

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Archive+ makes broadcast transcripts back to 2009 and podcast episodes back to 2019 searchable, delivered as datasets, dashboards, reports, APIs or MCP access.

TVEyes (tveyes.com). Announced Aug. 24, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: TVEyes blog.

AskNews: Adds a podcasts filter to news search

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

News search gains a podcasts setting. Users can include podcasts, return only podcasts or leave them out.

AskNews (asknews.app). Available Aug. 20, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring.

Source: AskNews Python SDK release notes (GitHub).

SnapStream: Adds Create for Social clip editor

2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Users turn TV clips into social posts: auto reframing and 9:16 crop, caption styles and editing, text overlays, and a pane to preview, download or share to social media.

SnapStream (snapstream.com). Announced Aug. 20, 2026.

Source: SnapStream release notes 26.3.

Pendulum: Adds Channel Demographics to profile the creator behind each post

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Pendulum predicts up to 55 attributes, such as age, location and occupation, for the person behind 1.15 million creator channels. Teams can filter Monitoring Agent alerts by who is posting and gate creators by age for compliance.

Pendulum (pendulumintel.com). Announced Aug. 20, 2026.

Features: Media monitoring, Coverage analysis.

Source: Pendulum blog.