News as a Listening Source

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By adding News as a Listening Source, you can listen to and learn from News data.

News helps in mass education and information, providing the latest news and current events around the world. Online articles are written specifically for the web and tend to be more concise, as it makes it easier to read and scan on a computer screen or mobile device. A vast number of people are regular consumers of various news channels making this source an important part of brand listening.

At Sprinklr we cover 1M+ news and website domains from around the globe to give users a 360° view in Listening. Sprinklr has long-term strategic relationships with leading 3rd party data vendors so that users can get news on all fronts.

  • 100K+ news domains from the APAC region including major domains such as AntaraNews, Business World, Financial Review, Hankyung, NDTV, Nikkei, Pulse, Sputnik, The Hindu, The Mainichi, The Straits Times, Times of India, WA Today, etc.

  • 150K+ news domains from the EMEA region comprising important domains like ABC, Asharq Al-Awsat, Basler Zeitung, Dailymail, Die Welt, Diário de (Spain), El Mundo, Euractiv, la Repubblica, Mehr News, Metro, News24, SRF, Telebasel, Telecompaper, Times Live, etc.

  • 160K+ news domains from the NALA region including major domains such as BusinessInsider, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Forbes, FoxNews, USA Today, Washington Post, Wired, etc.

News source capabilities

  • Source: News

  • Source of data: Data Vendors

  • Coverage: Public mainstream news media primarily national and local market newspapers, news portals, wire services, news magazines, and various other news sources.

  • Latency: 12-24 hours

  • Historical data: Q2 2015

  • Backfill support: Yes, till the date of addition of News sites in Sprinklr

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not supported

  • Author/Profile metadata details: Yes

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

  • Message type: News

  • Media type: News, Status, Photo, Link, Comment, Blog

News data entities in Social Listening

Data Entities

Type

Description

Media Reach

Metric

A measure of the size of the potential audience of a message(web)

Media Source Name

Dimension

Name of the Media Source

Media Title

Dimension

The title of the News.

Domain

Dimension

The top level domain name of a message's website of origin.

Domain Authority

Metric

Domain Authority (DA) is a search engine ranking score developed by Moz that predicts how likely a website is to rank on search engine result pages (SERPs). A Domain Authority score ranges from 1 to 100, with higher scores corresponding to a greater likelihood of ranking.

Distinct Domains

Metric

Distinct domains count from which mentions coming in

Distinct Users

Metric

Distinct users count from which mentions coming in

Moz Rank

Metric

Moz Rank of the domain of this message source. Moz Rank will be in the range of 0 to 10.

Moz External Links

Metric

Moz External Links gives the number of external links to the domain of the source website of the message.

Moz Spam Score

Metric

Moz Spam Score is a metric that indicates how likely a website is to be penalized by the search engines as a site that provides low value to searchers, as measured by the ratios of content to code, content to external links, external links to internal links, and several other factors. The Spam Score will be in the range of 0 to 18. Higher Spam Score implies higher spam content.

Alexa Page Views

Metric

Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. Note that the pageviews are not unique.

Note: As per the new calculation logic updates we have made in the Alexa Page View metrics, you will get the exact values sent by the Alexa team as is without any modifications.

Applicable Sources – Sources only

Alexa Rank

Metric

A relative measure of global popularity based on unique visitor and pageviews metrics from the past 3 months. Note that Country ranks are similar but are based on metrics for a specific country from the past 1 month.

Alexa Reach

Metric

Alexa Reach is an Alexa Search metric that measures the number of people who have the Alexa toolbar or extension installed and who see your content. For example, if your website has a Reach Score of 5,000, this means that 5,000 people out of a sample of 1 million, who have the toolbar or extension installed, saw your site yesterday. Alexa Reach should not be used/compared in conjunction with other metrics as the logic for calculation is totally different.

Note: As per the new calculation logic updates we have made in the Alexa Reach metric, you will get the exact values sent by the Alexa team as is without any modifications.

To fetch data from News

Query-based Topic

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

  • While creating or editing your Topic, click the Apply Filters tab, and select News as one of the Sources.

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

Domain-based Topic

  • In order to fetch data from News, you need to create a Domain-based Topic with News as its source.

  • You can add the domains/domain list in the Setup Profile tab of Topic builder.

  • While creating or editing your topic, click the Apply Filters tab, and select News as one of the Social Channels.

  • You can also select Source: News from the Dashboard/ Widget filter.

To backfill data from News

To know more about how to backfill data, check out Listening Backfill for Topics.

Paywalled Content

Sprinklr covers paywalled content in which the title and snippet of the articles are available. Sprinklr does not provide access to the full view of the content for these snippets.

Premium Content

  • Sprinklr provides access to premium sources once the Media Monitoring & Analytics module is enabled. For more information refer this article*

  • User will get access to these metrics if MM&A is enabled in platform

News specific data entities (If MM&A is enabled)

Data Entities

Type

Description

News Media Potential Reach (Desktop)

Metric

Potential number of audience who viewed the article using website’s Monthly Unique Visitors (UVPM) on desktop. Applicable for News and powered with Similarweb technology.

News Media Potential Reach (Mobile)

Metric

Potential number of audience who viewed the article using website’s Monthly Unique Visitors (UVPM) on mobile. Applicable for News and powered with Similarweb technology.

Total News Media Potential Reach

Metric

Potential number of audience who viewed the article using website’s Monthly Unique Visitors (UVPM) on desktop and mobile combined. Applicable for News and powered with Similarweb technology.

Global Rank

Metric

Ranking based on the highest sum of monthly unique visitors and pageviews globally and powered with Similarweb technology.

Publication Name

Dimension

News publication name or the corresponding domain from which the message was pulled. It is applicable only for News and Blogs as source.

Limitations

  • 100% coverage should not be expected for source verified News channels as well. Vendors try to capture as much data as possible keeping crawler capabilities & news site structure in consideration but there could be some cases of misses.

  • Sometimes, news articles may also be pulled in via news aggregator sites like news.google.com, which typically syndicates news from different native news domains. The main source of the news, however, remains the original news site only.

  • Crawlers typically crawl the first page of sections of the news at the time of crawling. Frequency of crawls vary from vendor to vendor.

  • Coverage on non-licensed paywalled News site data will typically be low and only the available extracts (partial articles) would be available.

  • Coverage on licensed paywalled News data will be as per vendor-publisher partnership.

  • Recrawl on older articles is not scalable.

  • Country tags are provided at domain level and are set by data vendors. Country is not present at the article level. Few global news sites may have countries as unknown/ US tagged.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. News displays the country associated with the top-level domain.

News articles remains in platform till any intimation is provided by Vendors or APIs

Yes, Media Reach supported on News.

Yes, from the date of addition of News sites inside Sprinklr platform via source verification.

Engagement stats are not updated for News.

News data is pulled based on keyword match and domain-based listening.

News as a Source is available by default in Listening Source.