Brand Mention Monitor: Every Time You Are in the News

Watch what the press says about your brand, your competitors, or any topic you care about. Every run returns headlines with the publisher, link and date. Schedule it and each run gives you only what is new since yesterday.

Built for founders, PR teams and marketers who would rather find out from an alert than from a customer.

How it works

flowchart LR
    A["Terms you watch<br/>your brand, rivals, topics"] --> B["News search"]
    B --> C["Headline, publisher,<br/>link, date"]
    C --> D{"Filters<br/>publisher, words, date"}
    D --> E{"Seen before?"}
    E -->|no| F[("New mention rows")]
    E -->|yes| G["Skipped"]

Each term is searched on its own, so a run watching you and three competitors comes back clearly separated by term rather than as one pile.

Built for

• Founders catching coverage the day it publishes
• PR teams proving a campaign landed, and where
• Competitor tracking seeing who writes about your rivals and how often
• Reputation work spotting a bad story early enough to respond

Input

{
  "queries": ["Acme Corp", "Acme Robotics", "warehouse automation"],
  "freshnessDays": 7,
  "onlyNewMentions": true,
  "excludeDomains": ["prnewswire.com", "globenewswire.com"]
}

Setting	What it does
queries	Brands, people or topics to watch
matchExactPhrase	Treats a two word brand as one phrase, on by default
freshnessDays	Limit to the last few days, ideal for a daily schedule
onlyNewMentions	Return only what appeared since the previous run
includeDomains / excludeDomains	Focus on real press, drop the wires
titleContains / titleExcludes	Narrow by words in the headline

Output

{
  "query": "Acme Corp",
  "title": "Acme Corp raises $40m to expand warehouse robots",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "sourceUrl": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "snippet": "The company said the round will fund European expansion",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-03T08:12:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMi...",
  "guid": "CBMiK2h0dHBzOi8vdGVjaGNydW5jaC5jb20",
  "foundAt": "2026-09-04T09:50:11.402Z"
}

Filter on source or sourceUrl to separate real editorial coverage from syndicated reprints of the same story.

Turn it into a morning alert

{
  "queries": ["Acme Corp"],
  "freshnessDays": 1,
  "onlyNewMentions": true
}

Schedule that daily. The first run records what already exists, and every run after it returns only genuinely new coverage, which on a quiet day is nothing at all.

Watch your competitors instead

{
  "queries": ["Rival One", "Rival Two", "Rival Three"],
  "freshnessDays": 30,
  "excludeDomains": ["prnewswire.com"]
}

The run summary ranks which publishers cover each rival most, which tells you exactly who to pitch.

Run it as an API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/arched_friend~brand-mention-monitor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "queries": ["Acme Corp"],
    "freshnessDays": 7
  }'

Pricing

You pay $0.01 for each term checked, however many mentions come back. A quiet day costs the same as a busy one, and never more.

Watching 5 brands daily	Monthly cost
Checking by hand	roughly 10 hours
Media monitoring platforms	$100 to $1,000 per month
This Actor	$1.50 per month

Common questions

Why do links point at news.google.com? The feed publishes redirect links that resolve to the publisher. The real publisher is always in source and sourceUrl, which is what the domain filters use.

Can I watch a topic rather than a brand? Yes. Any search term works, so "warehouse automation" or a person's name is fine. Turn off matchExactPhrase to search the words loosely.

Will I get the same story twice? Repeats are removed inside a run, and with onlyNewMentions on, anything reported in an earlier run is dropped too.

Related products

• Google Reviews Monitor for what customers say, alongside what the press says
• App Store Review Tracker and Google Play Review Tracker for app feedback
• Hiring Signals Tracker to spot a competitor scaling up before the news does
• Website Lead Extractor to find contact details for a publisher you want to pitch