AI Media Monitor – Brand, News & Sentiment Tracker 📰🤖

Track your brand, products, competitors and any topic across global news coverage — and get clean, structured results enriched with AI sentiment, summaries and an executive intelligence report. No accounts. No logins. No setup headaches.

AI Media Monitor turns the noise of the world's news into a tidy, decision-ready dataset. Give it the names you care about, pick a market and a time range, and receive every relevant article with sentiment, a one-line AI summary, topics, key entities and a relevance score — plus a ready-to-read intelligence report for the whole run.

Whether you are protecting a reputation, watching competitors, spotting trends, or feeding a dashboard, this Actor delivers the structured media data you need in minutes.

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✨ Why people use AI Media Monitor

• 🌍 Global coverage — monitor news across 20 markets and 9 languages.
• 🧠 AI sentiment & summaries — every article gets a sentiment label, a polarity score, a short summary, topics, a category, key entities and a relevance score.
• 📊 Executive intelligence report — a run-level brief with overall tone, key themes, notable developments, emerging narratives and recommended actions.
• 🎯 Smart relevance filtering — describe your brand once and the AI separates real coverage from unrelated namesakes.
• ⚡ Fast & affordable — optimized to return rich results at a very low cost per run.
• 🔌 Zero authentication — no API keys to chase, no platform logins, no cookies.
• 🧱 Clean, structured output — perfect for spreadsheets, BI tools, CRMs, Slack alerts, or your own app.

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🚀 What you get

For every article:

Field	Description
keyword	The monitored term that matched
title	Clean headline
url	Direct link to the article
publisher	Name of the outlet
sourceDomain	Outlet domain
publishedAt	Publication date (ISO 8601)
snippet	Short preview text
sentiment	positive / neutral / negative
sentimentScore	Polarity from -1 to 1
summary	One-to-two sentence AI summary
topics	AI-extracted tags
category	High-level category
entities	Companies, people, products mentioned
relevanceScore	0–100 relevance to your term
isRelevant	Whether it is genuinely about your term
country / language	Market and language of the coverage
collectedAt	When the result was collected

Plus a run-level AI intelligence report (REPORT) containing the executive summary, sentiment breakdown, top publishers, key themes, notable developments, emerging narratives and recommended actions.

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🧰 Use cases

AI Media Monitor was built to serve many teams from a single, simple input:

• Brand & reputation monitoring — know what's being said about you, the moment it's published.
• Crisis & PR detection — surface negative coverage early and react fast.
• Competitor intelligence — track rivals' launches, partnerships and momentum.
• Market & industry research — follow a whole topic, sector or trend over time.
• Investment & due diligence — gauge the news narrative around a company or asset.
• Content & social media — find fresh angles and trending stories to write about.
• Lead & opportunity signals — spot expansions, funding and hiring news.
• Executive & board briefings — auto-generate a clean media digest on schedule.
• Academic & policy research — collect structured coverage for analysis.

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📝 How to use it

1. What to monitor — add one or more terms (brands, products, people, competitors, topics). Use quotes for exact phrases, e.g. "electric vehicles".
2. Country / market — choose the market you want coverage from.
3. Language — pick the coverage language.
4. Time range — past 24 hours, week, month, or any time.
5. Max results per keyword — control depth vs. cost.
6. Enable AI analysis — keep on for sentiment, summaries and the report.
7. Context (optional) — describe your brand so relevance scoring is sharper.
8. Report language — language for AI summaries and the report.

Click Start and collect your results from the Output tab and the REPORT record.

Example input

{
  "keywords": ["Tesla", "Rivian", "electric vehicles"],
  "country": "US",
  "language": "en",
  "timeframe": "d7",
  "maxArticlesPerKeyword": 50,
  "includeSentimentAnalysis": true,
  "brandContext": "Tesla, the electric vehicle maker. Focus on product, business and reputation news.",
  "outputLanguage": "English"
}

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🔁 Automate it

Run AI Media Monitor on a schedule (hourly, daily, weekly) to build a living media archive, power alerts, or keep a dashboard fresh. Connect it to Slack, email, Google Sheets, or your data warehouse using Apify integrations and webhooks.

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💡 Tips for best results

• Add a short Context sentence — it dramatically improves relevance scoring for common names.
• Use quotes for multi-word brands to avoid noise.
• Start with Past week and a moderate result limit, then widen once you see the quality.
• Monitor competitors alongside your brand to benchmark share of voice and tone.

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❓ FAQ

Do I need any account or login? No. The Actor collects publicly available coverage without any authentication.

Which markets and languages are supported? 20 markets (US, UK, Canada, Australia, Ireland, India, South Africa, Singapore, UAE, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Japan, Saudi Arabia) and 9 languages.

Can I run it without AI analysis? Yes. Turn off Enable AI analysis to receive raw coverage only.

How fresh is the data? You choose the time range; the most recent coverage is prioritized.

Is the output structured? Yes — a clean, consistent dataset (with multiple views) plus a structured intelligence report.

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📦 Output formats

Export your results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML or XML, or pull them via the Apify API for seamless integration into your stack.

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Stop drowning in tabs. Start monitoring the news that matters — with sentiment, summaries and insight, automatically. 🚀