Complete guide to setting up and using the media monitoring platform
MediaMeter is a professional platform for monitoring media mentions. The system automatically collects and analyzes publications from:
The platform is designed for political consultants, PR agencies, and communications professionals who need to track the media landscape.
If you already have an account:
The system remembers your session. You don't need to log in every time — just open the site and start working.
To access profile settings, click on your name in the top right corner of the dashboard.
MediaMeter supports three interface languages:
To change the language, click the corresponding button (UA, RU, or EN) in the top right corner. The selected language will also be used for Telegram notifications.
To receive notifications about new mentions in Telegram:
/start249623645Chat ID is not your Telegram username. It's a unique numeric value that can only be obtained from the bot.
A Person is a monitoring subject. It can be a politician, company, brand, event, or any other entity whose mentions you want to track.
Aliases are variations of the person's name that the system searches for. The more aliases — the more comprehensive the monitoring.
Example aliases for Volodymyr Zelensky:
Зеленський, Володимир Зеленський, президент ЗеленськийЗеленский, Владимир ЗеленскийZelensky, Zelenskyy, Volodymyr ZelenskyAdd all possible spelling variations, including misspellings. The system is case-insensitive — "zelensky" and "Zelensky" will both be found.
You can temporarily disable monitoring for a person without deleting them. Uncheck "Active" in the person's settings. Monitoring will stop, but all collected data will be preserved.
MediaMeter supports three types of sources:
RSS is a standard news feed format supported by most media outlets.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/rss/)The system checks RSS sources every 15 minutes.
You can monitor public Telegram channels:
@truexanewsua)The system checks Telegram channels every 10 minutes.
Monitoring only works for public channels. Private channels and groups are not supported.
Smart sources provide automatic website parsing. The system automatically finds RSS or parses HTML pages.
https://antikor.info/)The Smart parser runs every 30 minutes.
Above the chart is a panel of key metrics for the selected period:
The chart shows mention dynamics for the selected period — including days with no mentions: zero values are now shown rather than skipped, since that's also a signal about media activity. The chart shows:
Colored zones on the chart mark detected waves of heightened attention — see section 7, "Media Attack Detector," for details.
Use filters to refine your selection:
You can compare up to 5 persons on one chart:
Below the chart, a cloud of the most frequent words in publications is displayed. This helps understand the main topics and context of mentions.
You can add stop words that will be excluded from the cloud. For example, if the word "news" appears too often, add it to the stop words list.
MediaMeter automatically analyzes the intensity and sentiment of each person's mentions and determines whether current activity is normal background noise or a sign of a coordinated media attack.
The system compares current metrics against each person's own statistical baseline — not a single fixed threshold for everyone, since different people have very different normal mention volumes. Based on this, one of four levels is determined:
The level is determined by five criteria:
A high-profile person has a much higher natural baseline of mentions than a less public one. That's why the system compares each person against their own statistical baseline from the preceding period, rather than a single threshold for everyone.
The threat indicator sits in the top-left corner of the dashboard, next to the logo, and shows the highest current level across all your persons. Click it to see the list of persons with an elevated threat level.
The personal indicator — next to the person selector — shows the level for the currently selected person specifically.
Periods of heightened activity are highlighted as a colored zone directly on the main dynamics chart (section 6.2). The color matches the level: yellow for elevated, orange for attack, red for crisis.
Click a highlighted zone to open a detailed wave card.
The wave card includes:
For waves triggered by a volume or negativity spike without a shared topic, the system can't always pinpoint a single original source — in that case, the card will show that no shared topic was found among the sources.
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You can set up automatic report delivery to email:
After setting up Telegram (see section 3.2), you will receive notifications about each new mention.
Each notification contains:
Notifications arrive in the language selected in the interface. If you chose English — notifications will be in English.
The bot @MediaMeterBot also serves as a support channel. Send the bot any message — and we'll respond as soon as possible.
These are waves of heightened activity detected by the media attack detector. Click a zone to see details — level, duration, criteria, and the earliest sources. See section 7, "Media Attack Detector," for more.
Check:
/start to the bot (this is required)Possible reasons:
Recommendation: add more aliases and more sources.
Person deletion is currently not available through the interface. Contact support and we'll help.
Go to the pricing page and select the plan you need. After payment, limits will be automatically updated.
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