Real-time media monitoring is the continuous tracking of mentions of your brand, competitors, executives, products, and key topics as they appear across online news, print, broadcast, social media, podcasts, and other media channels. It enables PR and communications teams to spot emerging stories, respond quickly to risks and opportunities, and understand where public attention is shifting. - dle mého toto trochu líp odpovídá na tu otázku co to je…
Which media sources can Mediaboard monitor?
Mediaboard monitors a wide range of media sources, including online news, websites, blogs, print publications, television, radio, podcasts, newsletters, and major social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and Threads. This comprehensive coverage gives PR and communications teams a complete view of media coverage, public conversations, and emerging trends in real time.
How fast are media alerts in Mediaboard?
Mediaboard can notify teams when relevant mentions appear, so they can respond quickly to important coverage, negative sentiment or emerging issues. Alerts help communication teams stay ahead of stories instead of discovering them too late.
Can I monitor competitors and industry topics?
Yes. You can monitor competitors, market topics, industry trends, spokespeople, products and campaigns. This helps teams understand not only their own visibility, but also the broader media context around their category.
Who uses media monitoring?
Media monitoring is useful for PR teams, communication departments, marketing teams, executives, agencies, public institutions and any organization that needs to understand reputation, visibility and media impact.
Social Media Monitoring
What is social media monitoring?
Social media monitoring tracks conversations, mentions, reactions and sentiment across social platforms and online communities. It helps teams understand how people talk about their brand, campaigns, competitors and key topics.
Why is social media monitoring important for PR and marketing?
Social conversations can shape reputation very quickly. Monitoring social media helps teams detect risks, understand public reaction, measure campaign response and see which topics are gaining attention.
Can Mediaboard connect social listening with media monitoring?
Yes. Mediaboard connects social conversations with broader media coverage, so teams can see how stories move between news media, social platforms and public discussion.
What can I track with social listening?
You can track brand mentions, campaign reactions, competitor discussions, customer feedback, sentiment shifts, sensitive topics and emerging narratives across social platforms and online communities.
How does social media monitoring help during a crisis?
It helps teams spot negative sentiment, public reactions and fast-growing discussions early. With better context, communication teams can respond faster and make more informed decisions.
Advanced Media Analytics
What is advanced media analytics?
Advanced media analytics turns media coverage into insights, dashboards and reports. It helps teams understand what changed, why it matters and how communication activities affected reputation, visibility or campaign performance.
How is media analytics different from media monitoring?
Media monitoring shows what was published or said. Media analytics explains the meaning behind the coverage by looking at trends, sentiment, reach, share of voice, topics, competitors and communication impact.
What can I measure with Mediaboard analytics?
You can measure media volume, sentiment, reach, GRP, AVE, share of voice, topics, trends, campaign performance and PR impact. You can also compare brands, competitors, campaigns or time periods.
Can analytics help with reporting to leadership?
Yes. Analytics helps turn large amounts of coverage into clear reports, dashboards and summaries that leadership can understand. It is useful for proving communication impact and explaining media performance.
How does AI support media analytics?
AI can help summarize coverage, detect patterns, classify topics, support sentiment analysis and prepare reporting outputs faster. It reduces manual work and helps teams focus on interpretation and decisions.
Global Media Database
What is a global media database?
A global media database is a structured database of journalists, authors, newsrooms and media outlets. It helps PR teams find relevant contacts and build better media lists for outreach.
How many media contacts are in Mediaboard?
Mediaboard gives access to a global database with hundreds of thousands of authors and newsrooms. This helps teams find relevant journalists by topic, market, outlet or position.
How does a media database help PR outreach?
It helps PR teams contact the right journalists instead of sending generic mass emails. Better targeting improves relevance, saves time and supports stronger media relationships.
Can I build media lists for different campaigns?
Yes. You can build and organize media lists by topic, market, campaign, client or audience. This helps teams keep outreach structured and easier to manage.
Is the media database connected with monitoring?
Yes. A connected workflow makes it easier to move from media monitoring to outreach. You can understand who covers relevant topics and use that context to reach the right journalists.
Online Newsroom
What is an online newsroom?
An online newsroom is a branded place where organizations publish press releases, company news, media assets and updates. It gives journalists and stakeholders one clear source for official communication.
Why should a company use an online newsroom?
An online newsroom makes press releases easier to find, share and reuse. It also helps teams keep media materials organized, publish faster and present company news professionally.
What can I publish in a newsroom?
You can publish press releases, company announcements, product news, images, files, media kits and supporting materials that journalists need to cover your story.
How does an online newsroom support PR work?
It connects content creation, publishing, media outreach and coverage tracking. PR teams can publish stories, share them with relevant journalists and follow how the story performs.
Can AI help create press releases?
Yes. AI can help draft, improve and translate press releases faster. It can support teams when creating first drafts, checking missing details or adapting communication for different markets.
Publishing & Emailing
What is PR publishing and emailing?
PR publishing and emailing helps teams create, send and track press releases or media updates. It connects content distribution with journalist lists, email performance and media coverage.
How does Mediaboard help with media outreach?
Mediaboard helps teams send stories to selected journalist lists, track engagement and connect outreach with media monitoring. This creates a more organized workflow from publishing to coverage.
Can I track email performance?
Yes. You can track key engagement signals such as opens, clicks, responses or campaign performance, depending on the setup. This helps teams understand which stories and audiences are responding.
Why is targeted outreach better than mass emailing?
Targeted outreach is more relevant for journalists and usually more effective. It helps teams match the right story with the right contact, instead of sending the same message to everyone.
Can publishing and emailing be used by agencies?
Yes. Agencies can use publishing and emailing to manage client campaigns, distribute press releases, track outreach and create clearer reporting for clients.
PRIMe Metric
What is PRIMe?
PRIMe is Mediaboard’s media impact metric. It helps teams measure PR and communication performance beyond simple media volume by looking at the quality and value of coverage.
How is PRIMe different from AVE?
AVE provides a generic estimate of the advertising value of media coverage. PRIMe is built around your brand, objectives, and communication priorities. Each PRIMe model is configured to your specific needs, taking into account the factors that matter most to your organization—from key messages and sentiment to source relevance and audience impact. Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all formula, PRIMe delivers a tailored measurement that reflects the true value of coverage from your perspective.
What does PRIMe measure?
PRIMe measures media impact through key pillars such as relevance, sentiment, reach and content quality. It helps teams understand whether coverage is meaningful, positive, visible and valuable.
Who should use PRIMe?
PRIMe is useful for PR teams, communication leaders, agencies and executives who need to prove communication impact, compare campaigns and report results more clearly.
Can PRIMe help with leadership reporting?
Yes. PRIMe turns complex media performance into a clearer metric that leadership can understand. It helps show whether communication is building visibility, trust and reputation value.
Mediaboard Insights
What is Mediaboard Insights?
Mediaboard Insights turns media data into dashboards, reports and data stories. It helps teams understand performance, track trends and present results in a clearer way.
How is Mediaboard Insights useful for reporting?
It helps teams create interactive dashboards and structured outputs instead of static, manual reports. This makes media performance easier to explain to leadership, clients or internal teams.
What can I track in Mediaboard Insights?
You can track coverage volume, sentiment, reach, topics, competitors, campaign performance, PRIMe, trends and custom KPIs depending on your reporting needs.
Can dashboards be customized?
Yes. Dashboards can be built around brands, campaigns, markets, competitors or specific communication goals. This helps teams focus on the metrics that matter most.
Who is Mediaboard Insights for?
It is useful for PR teams, marketing teams, agencies, executives and analysts who need to turn media data into clear decisions, reports and strategic insights.
MAIA
What is MAIA?
MAIA is Mediaboard’s AI Assistant. It helps PR and communication teams summarize media coverage, analyze articles, improve texts, translate content and prepare reports faster.
How can MAIA help with media monitoring?
MAIA can summarize large volumes of media coverage, highlight important stories and help teams understand what changed without reading every article manually.
Can MAIA help with press releases?
Yes. MAIA can help draft, improve, check and translate press releases or email copy. It supports teams when preparing communication for different topics, markets and audiences.
How does MAIA support reporting?
MAIA helps turn media coverage into clearer summaries, insights and report-ready outputs. This saves time and makes it easier to share key information with teams, clients or leadership.
Is MAIA replacing PR professionals?
No. MAIA supports PR professionals by reducing repetitive work and speeding up analysis, writing and reporting. The final context, decisions and communication strategy still stay with the team.
PR & Communications Teams
How does Mediaboard help PR teams?
Mediaboard helps PR teams monitor media coverage, track reputation risks, analyze impact and manage media outreach from one connected platform.
Can PR teams use Mediaboard for crisis communication?
Yes. PR teams can track sensitive topics, negative sentiment and emerging narratives in real time, helping them understand context and respond before issues escalate.
How does Mediaboard support PR reporting?
Mediaboard turns coverage, sentiment, reach and PR impact metrics into reports and dashboards. This helps PR teams prove what communication achieved.
Can Mediaboard help with media relations?
Yes. Teams can use the media database, newsroom and emailing tools to find relevant journalists, build media lists and distribute stories more effectively.
Why should PR teams use one platform instead of separate tools?
A connected platform reduces manual work and gives teams a clearer view of monitoring, analysis, reporting and outreach. It helps PR teams move faster and keep communication consistent.
Marketing & Brand Teams
How does Mediaboard help marketing and brand teams?
Mediaboard helps marketing and brand teams track brand visibility, measure campaign impact, follow competitors and understand how audiences react across media and social channels.
Can Mediaboard measure campaign impact beyond clicks?
Yes. Mediaboard helps teams understand how campaigns appear in the media, how audiences respond and whether campaign messages reach the right conversations.
How does media intelligence support brand strategy?
Media intelligence shows how your brand is seen across media and public conversation. It helps teams understand reputation, sentiment, narratives and market position.
Can marketing teams track competitors?
Yes. Marketing teams can monitor competitor mentions, share of voice, campaign coverage, market topics and industry narratives to see where attention is moving.
Is Mediaboard useful for brand reputation monitoring?
Yes. It helps teams follow media coverage, social discussions and sentiment, so they can understand what shapes brand reputation and make better decisions.
C-level Executives
How does Mediaboard help CEOs and leadership teams?
Mediaboard gives leadership teams a clearer view of reputation, risks, media visibility and communication impact. It helps executives understand what changed, why it matters and where action may be needed.
Why should executives care about media intelligence?
Media coverage and public conversation can affect trust, market position and business priorities. Media intelligence helps leaders see risks and opportunities earlier.
Can Mediaboard support board-level reporting?
Yes. Mediaboard can turn media data into clear dashboards, summaries and impact metrics that help leadership understand reputation and communication performance.
How does Mediaboard help with reputation risk?
It helps track negative sentiment, sensitive stories and emerging narratives before they become bigger business issues. This gives leadership more time and context to respond.
Can communication impact be connected to business outcomes?
Yes. Mediaboard helps teams show how communication affects visibility, trust, reputation and strategic priorities through dashboards, analytics and PRIMe metrics.
Businesses
Is Mediaboard suitable for startups, mid-sized companies and corporates?
Yes. Mediaboard is built for companies of different sizes, from startups to mid-sized businesses and global corporates. Teams can use it to monitor brand visibility, competitors and market topics.
How does Mediaboard help businesses stay visible?
It tracks brand mentions, products, competitors and key topics across media and social channels, helping companies understand how they appear in the market.
Can businesses use Mediaboard for competitor monitoring?
Yes. Businesses can monitor competitor coverage, share of voice, market trends and industry narratives to see where attention is moving.
How does media intelligence support business decisions?
Media intelligence adds context to what is happening around your brand, industry and competitors. It helps teams understand risks, opportunities and communication impact.
Why is reputation monitoring important for businesses?
Reputation is shaped by media coverage, public conversation and stakeholder perception. Monitoring helps businesses detect issues early and understand what influences trust.
Agencies
How does Mediaboard help PR agencies?
Mediaboard helps PR agencies monitor client coverage, prove results, manage media outreach and create clearer reports with less manual work.
Can agencies manage multiple clients in Mediaboard?
Yes. Agencies can track different clients, campaigns, competitors and topics in one platform, making client work easier to organize and report.
How does Mediaboard improve client reporting?
It helps agencies turn coverage, sentiment, reach and impact metrics into clear reports and dashboards that show clients what their communication achieved.
Can agencies use Mediaboard for media outreach?
Yes. Agencies can find relevant journalists, build media lists, distribute client stories and track outreach from one connected workflow.
Why is media intelligence useful for agency work?
Agency teams need to move fast, monitor many topics and show results clearly. Media intelligence helps them stay informed, respond to risks and prove value to clients.
Public Sector
How does Mediaboard help public institutions?
Mediaboard helps public institutions monitor important issues, understand public opinion and respond faster when communication matters most.
Can Mediaboard monitor public opinion?
Yes. Mediaboard tracks media coverage, social conversations and sentiment to help public organizations understand how key topics are discussed and perceived.
How does Mediaboard support crisis communication in the public sector?
It helps teams detect sensitive topics, emerging narratives and sentiment shifts early, so they can respond with better context and clearer communication.
Can public organizations use Mediaboard for media relations?
Yes. Public organizations can use the media database, newsroom and emailing tools to reach relevant journalists and share important information with the right audiences.
Why is media monitoring important for public administration?
Public administration needs to stay informed, communicate transparently and understand public reaction. Media monitoring helps teams follow issues, risks and public discussion in real time.
Pricing
Which Mediaboard plan should I choose?
The right plan depends on your team size, reporting needs and communication workflow. Starter is suitable for essential monitoring, Pro adds more communication tools, Expert supports advanced analytics and AI features, and Enterprise is built for complex needs.
What is included in the Starter plan?
Starter is designed for teams that need essential media monitoring and basic insights. It includes media monitoring, social listening, paywalled sources, archive access and one dashboard.
What is the difference between Pro and Expert?
Pro is focused on measuring communication and managing outreach from one place. Expert adds more advanced capabilities such as AI summaries, more dashboards, crisis communication, Mediaboard Insights and PRIMe.
When should a company choose Enterprise?
Enterprise is best for larger teams or organizations with complex media intelligence needs. It can include unlimited access, advanced insights, PRIMe, custom consulting, direct BI connection and tailored support.
Can Mediaboard pricing scale with our team?
Yes. Mediaboard plans are designed to support different levels of communication maturity, from essential monitoring to advanced media intelligence. Teams can start with the plan that fits their current needs and scale as their communication strategy grows.
Social Media Monitoring
Social media monitoring tracks conversations, mentions, reactions and sentiment across social platforms and online communities. It helps teams understand how people talk about their brand, campaigns, competitors and key topics.
Social conversations can shape reputation very quickly. Monitoring social media helps teams detect risks, understand public reaction, measure campaign response and see which topics are gaining attention.
Yes. Mediaboard connects social conversations with broader media coverage, so teams can see how stories move between news media, social platforms and public discussion.
You can track brand mentions, campaign reactions, competitor discussions, customer feedback, sentiment shifts, sensitive topics and emerging narratives across social platforms and online communities.
It helps teams spot negative sentiment, public reactions and fast-growing discussions early. With better context, communication teams can respond faster and make more informed decisions.