News Monitoring Software
Track the outlets, blogs, and filings you named. Skip the clip archive you will never search.
News monitoring software tracks outlets, blogs, and filings for coverage you actually need to see.
Enterprise media suites sell a database. Decades of clips. Sentiment dashboards. A PDF you forward to a VP who will not open it. That software is a library. Libraries are useful when you must prove coverage after the fact. They are slow and expensive when the job is "tell me when this story exists."
AyeWatch is the second job. You name the coverage in English. You can paste outlet URLs, newsroom pages, and filing pages. You get a summary when a matching piece lands. Google Alerts tries to do a cheap version of this with keywords and the news tab. It cannot watch a specific blog post URL for updates, and it will not sit in Slack. PR teams that already know the difference can start at media monitoring for PR teams.
Coverage you named
Write the beat, not the industry. "Analyst notes or primary reporting that this company missed a ship date." "Local outlets or filings that this plant is closing." "Trade blogs that review this product, skip coupon roundups." If you cannot say the sentence out loud to a junior, the software will not save you. It will only multiply the fog.
Add the two outlet homepages you already open at 7 a.m. Add the SEC or gazette page if official text is the source of truth. Blogs that break your category belong as URL watches, not as a hope that the index will notice them. AI content monitoring is the adjacent watch if the coverage is a page change rather than a new article.
Outlets, blogs, and filings
Split them. News, owned blogs, and filings move on different clocks and tell different lies. A recap blog quoting a filing is not the filing. A wire brief is not the local paper that named the street. One topic per source class keeps the summary honest.
Free Preview is six lifetime runs across three topics, Daily or slower, push and in-app. Pro is $9 a month, 50 topics, six-hour checks. Pro+ is hourly. ASAP is Max and Ultra. Paid plans add email, Slack, Discord, webhooks, and a REST API. That is enough for a small comms desk. It is not a 40-seat clip archive.
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Free Preview is six lifetime runs across three topics. No card.
Try AyeWatch freeWhat Meltwater still owns
If you need a licensed press database, buy one. AyeWatch will not pretend to be Meltwater, Cision, or a Bloomberg terminal. It will not score share of voice across a paid corpus. It will not generate battlecards. Keep Google Alerts for leftover keyword vanity mail if you want a free drip. Use AyeWatch when the miss is a story or a page you named, and you need the ping before the weekly coverage report.
The Google Alerts alternative guide and vs Google Alerts page cover the keyword-to-semantic jump. Start with one outlet URL and one topic. If the first summary is a clip you would have forwarded, add the filing page next.