Radio as a Listening source

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By adding Radio as a Listening source, you can listen to and learn from radio channels.

Sprinklr supports Radio as one of its traditional Listening sources. Radio source contains radio broadcasts of news or commentaries on various topics. LexisNexis provides a transcript and audio clips of major Radio sources for popular radio stations.

Sprinklr has coverage of –

  • 550+ US Radio stations

  • 110+ Radio channels in Canada, including CBC, CRadio, City, and Global affiliate stations

  • 60+ Radio channels in the UK, including BBC Radio, iRadio, and Sky content

  • Publicity Values related to radio clips

Capability: Transcripts for Radio are available as a part of the metadata.

Radio source capabilities

  • Source: Radio

  • Source of data: Datavendors (LexisNexis)

  • Coverage: Sprinklr includes Radio transcripts and audio clips of 750+ major radio sources across US, UK, and Canada.

  • Latency: Less than 60 mins

  • Historical data: Q3 2017

  • Backfill support: Yes

  • Archive support: Up to 2 Years

  • Author/ Profile metadata details: Yes (earned)

    • Author name available

      Note: Author URL is not available for Radio Sources, hence distinct users cannot be determined accurately.

  • AI-enriched data: Sentiment, Emotions, Language, Gender, Word cloud, Topic Cluster, Smart Themes Clustering, Smart Insights

  • Message type: Radio News

  • Media type: Radio & Video (consists of audio clips)

Radio data entities in Social Listening

Radio specific Data Entities

Data Entities

Type

Description

EMV

Metric

EMV stands for Earned Media Value. EMV is dependent on four factors namely –

  • Media Reach: It is the circulation numbers for print, viewership for Broadcast, and Unique Visitors per Month (UVPM) for Online News. For more information on reach, refer to Reach Metrics for Listening.

  • Word Count: The number of words, or the length of the article.

  • Ad Rate: Cost to place an ad in a certain publication based on the amount of space the ad will take up. This is based on estimates or actual cost that is updated quarterly.

  • Source Rank: Editorial ranks that are applied to news sources. It is a source-level categorization with 5 levels – International, National, and Business News Sources

    • Regional sources

    • Industry-specific or top organization media releases

    • Local sources

    • Non-news sources such as message boards

If any of the above is not available for a particular domain, the value is estimated as zero.

Media Source Category

Dimension

Describes the type of publication an article is from e.g., National, Local, etc.

Media Title

Dimension

Title of the message like web news/blog, print or Radio

Editorial Rank

Dimension

Ranking of the media source based on its presence such as International, National, etc. The scale of ranking is from 1 to 5.

Refer to this KP article for more information.

Radio supported location stats

Data Entities

Type

Description

Country

Metric

The user-provided or Sprinklr-identified country of origin of the message

State

Metric

The user-provided or Sprinklr-identified state of origin of the message.

To fetch data from Radio

  • In order to fetch data from Radio, you need to create a topic with Radio as its source.

  • While creating or editing your topic, click the Apply Filters tab, and select Radio in the Traditional Sources.

  • You can also select Source: Radio from the dashboard/widget filter.

To learn in detail about how to create a Topic, refer to Create a Topic in Topic Creation UI.

Limitations

Radio as a source does not fall under the Source verification process as this is controlled by the data vendor. The coverage list is a part of a package that is defined by the data vendor, and is updated once a year.

To backfill data from Radio

Once the Topic is created/ updated, you can backfill the Topic going far back to Quarter 3 of 2017. To know more about how to backfill data, refer to Listening Backfill for Topics.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, we get Country and State location metadata from Radio.

The associated transcript of the clip will help identify the relevant clip. The whole clip will be provided as an output to the user which the user can watch/listen for the associated mention. A full broadcast is broken into individual clips of one minute each. The clip will also contain Publicity Values.

We do not support engagement stats in Radio.

Initial snippet of the transcript is visible in Sprinklr. To access the video/audio clip and full transcript, one needs to access the source site by clicking on the day's old stamp on top right of the mention or on the clip.

No, we do not support Listening to Radio through URLs and Domain-based Listening. This does not fall under the Source verification process.

New Radio sources cannot be added as we get it from our vendors who maintain the list.