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Mynewsdesk vs Retriever

You shouldn't have to filter out irrelevant mentions or struggle to turn data into insights. Your tool should be doing that for you. While Retriever matches keywords, Mynewsdesk shows you what actually matters.

Why teams are switching to Mynewsdesk

  • All the mentions you want, without the noise

    Mynewsdesk automatically removes inaccurate mentions from your feed and finds more of what's actually about your brand. Everything is analysed for impact and ranked by relevance so you know what to read first.

Mynewsdesk Media Monitoring

Not just different, better.

Unlike Retriever’s AI-assisted boolean search, Mynewsdesk uses a unique monitoring technology that understands coverage, rather than simply matching keywords.

  • Easy enough to set up yourself, in minutes not hours
  • Uncovers more of the mentions that matter to your brand
  • Market’s most accurate social media, video and podcast monitoring
  • One search profile handles everything from typical mentions to tracking a crisis
  • Relevance and impact analysis saves you time, and lets you know what to act on.
  • Perception analysis, a more accurate and valuable form of sentiment, gives you real insight

The data speaks for itself…

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Same job. Smoother experience.

Retriever
Mynewsdesk Monitor
Search profiles
Complex traditional boolean search logic, specialist support required.
Proprietary AI search & analysis technology, no support required.
Monitor feed
Noisy, low accuracy, requires extensive manual cleaning of hits, basic sentiment analysis.
Highly accurate, auto-filtered by relevance, analysed for impact and perception.
Crisis monitoring
Manual boolean search set up, low-precision alerts based on negative sentiment.
Smart search with high-precision and real time alerts to email and phone. Automated report creation on all related coverage.
Source coverage
Strongest in traditional news, historical archive for research institutions.
Integrated monitoring of text, audio & video across premium, paywalls, open, public & social media.
Insights & Reporting
Complex analytics tools better suited to media analysts. Reporting requires additional analyst services.
Metrics & insights made easy to understand & explore. Brand and coverage reports automatically mailed as often as you like.
Usability
Feature-heavy, not optimised for communications or PR workflow.
Workflow-first and automated manual work, designed for ease, speed and performance.
From journalist outreach to strategic insights

One tool for all your PR

Many teams replace their Retriever & NTB setup with Mynewsdesk and see improved results and ROI.

  • Automate reporting across essential metrics
  • Spend less time coordinating data from different PR activities and outcomes
  • Identify up to 53% more media coverage than typical reporting
  • 15× more likely to get coverage with journalist matching than traditional lists
  • Flexible: start with Monitoring and add PR distribution when you’re ready
Prøv gratis

  • 80%
    of users get coverage every month
  • 15×
    more likely to get coverage with journalist matching
  • more relevant mentions than traditional tools
Easy to use

Easy to get started, easy to use

PR is busy enough. Your tools shouldn’t make it harder.

Mynewsdesk is built around your workflow.

Most teams are up and running in under an hour — no boolean strings, no specialist setup.

Just describe your brand, and our AI does the rest.

Prøv gratis

Is Mynewsdesk right for you?

Best fit if you:

Work in a digital-first PR or communications team
Manage media monitoring and/or distribution workflows
Want faster and easier access to insights
Are a PR department or individual with a broad set of responsibilities
Represent a brand prioritising modern media formats (audio and video)

Less ideal if you:

Value full-text access to print clippings over digital text, audio and video coverage
Work in a research institution or school requiring very deep historical media archives

Mynewsdesk provides 2 years of historical data for published media, which is sufficient for most PR and Communications teams’ real usage.

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FAQs

  • Media monitoring is the process of tracking and analysing what’s being said about your brand, competitors, or industry across news, social media, podcasts, video and other channels. Mynewsdesk uses AI to automatically filter, rank, and surface the most relevant mentions so you spend less time searching and more time acting on insight.

  • Mynewsdesk monitors public social media platforms including Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and more. Our AI analyses context and brand relevance, not just keyword matches, so your social feed shows only what actually matters to your brand.

  • Yes. You can set up monitoring profiles for your competitors alongside your own brand. Mynewsdesk will automatically track and surface their coverage so you can see how your media presence compares and identify emerging trends in your industry.

  • Mynewsdesk monitoring covers online news, print in digital form, broadcast, podcasts, YouTube and social media, including paywalled premium content. Every mention is analysed for relevance, sentiment, reach and impact. You also get automated reporting and alerts.

  • On certain plans, automated brand and coverage reports can be generated and emailed up to 50 times per year. You can configure the frequency, weekly, monthly, or as needed, to match your reporting cycle. Additional reporting capacity is available on higher plans.

  • Most teams are up and running in under an hour. Unlike traditional tools, you don’t need to write complex boolean search strings or wait for specialist configuration. Our AI handles setup, just describe your brand and we do the rest.

  • You don’t need to migrate your boolean search strings. Mynewsdesk uses a proprietary AI approach, you simply describe your brand, topics, and competitors in plain language, and our technology builds and refines your monitoring automatically. Most customers find they get better results without any manual configuration work.

  • Migration is straightforward. Our onboarding team helps you set up monitoring profiles, configure reporting and validate results before you switch over. Most teams run both tools in parallel briefly to confirm accuracy, then make a clean transition.

  • Most customers see immediate value from day one. Your feed is populated and relevant from the moment your profile goes live. Meaningful reporting and trend analysis typically builds within the first 2–4 weeks as historical data accumulates in the platform.

  • All customers get access to our customer success team, onboarding support and an extensive help centre. Unlike tools requiring specialist support for search configuration, Mynewsdesk is designed to be self-serve, but we’re always here when you need us. Enterprise plans include dedicated account management.