Media monitoring and daily news brief production is a ton of work, but you can scale your program effectively and ensure your team delivers the best possible ROI on media intelligence activities with the help of this step-by-step guide from Fullintel’s AMEC-certified experts.
Learn the important steps of planning and executing a full media monitoring program, from finding the right content – and working with content licensors to stay on the right side of copyright – to developing the most effective Boolean search strings to monitor for your company, products, services, competitors, or other topics and subtopics.
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For example, it’s easy for inexperienced teams to overlook the importance of developing the right Boolean phrasing, inclusions, and exclusions.
Keywords on their own will, unfortunately, inevitably bring in a ton of bad results without Boolean logic and modifiers. And lots of bad results equals more work for your team, typically very early in the morning as they’re monitoring the news and creating that morning’s news brief.
Examples of modifiers for inclusions and exclusions are parentheses, OR, AND, or NOT, along with quotation marks for phrases. Generic words, such as “apple” or “box”, should always have modifiers or you’ll be buried in irrelevant results.
Similarly, some teams might overlook the importance of consistently monitoring and updating the health of your search strings over time.
The wrong keywords or search phrases – even a small punctuation mark that’s out of place – can negatively impact your results, sometimes with disastrous results.
Additionally, things change. Companies can undergo rebranding, mergers, acquisitions, or other big changes that inevitably require changes on your end, as well. Indeed, what was once an accurate search string can become completely inaccurate in a matter of minutes.
That’s why it’s vital to continually assess and refine (if necessary) keyword lists as time passes and requirements change, and to catch any potential issues that may hinder your search over the long-term.
Tips from an award-winning team
Fullintel’s expert teams of media monitoring specialists, curators, and media analysts are certified measurement and evaluation experts by the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication (AMEC).
They’ve got years of experience developing and maintaining the media monitoring and briefings programs of major international brands, and even won three AMEC Awards in 2021 for excellence in communications measurement.
Our media monitoring and analysis team always deploys the latest in traditional and social media monitoring technology and approaches, including human curation for always-relevant actionable news and AI-driven media monitoring for accurate real-time results.
At the same time, Fullintel’s deep knowledge around the best media metrics and methodologies to meet your goals can help your team make sense of your media monitoring results once your program is up to full speed.
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