The Priest Media · Self-service media monitoring
Create your own campaigns, choose what matters to your organisation and follow public coverage from our website. No waiting for someone else to set up your monitoring brief.
From a brand launch to a public statement, bring news, websites, indexed public social mentions and your own clippings into a private campaign workspace.
Your account. Your keywords. Your campaign workspace.
A monitoring workflow you own
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Give it a name, add relevant phrases and select your coverage sources.
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Run a public-source search, receive daily updates or add your own clippings.
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Browse mentions, filter by source and open the original coverage.
Account-specific campaigns and coverage access.
What you can monitor
Choose news and websites, public social discovery, uploaded coverage or a combination for each campaign. Keep unrelated projects separate and focus on the information that supports your brief.
Public-source discovery
Follow discoverable articles, publisher websites and relevant online pages mentioning your brand, campaign or spokesperson. Each saved result brings its title, source, available publication date, summary and original link into your campaign feed.
A useful starting point for PR coverage, product announcements and organisational news.
Indexed public content
Include social posts that are publicly visible and discoverable through web search. Keep these mentions alongside your news coverage, rather than checking a separate list for each campaign.
This is not a complete social-platform feed and does not access private profiles, groups or messages.
Customer-added coverage
Add print clippings, screenshots and coverage documents that your team has already collected. Record the title, source, date and context so offline or otherwise undiscovered coverage can sit alongside your online results.
Supported uploads include PDF, PNG, JPG, WEBP, TXT and CSV. Uploaded files are private, not public download links.
Automated discovery currently uses AI-assisted public web search, not an exhaustive licensed media database. Direct radio and television monitoring, automatic print-publication feeds, paywalled databases and comprehensive social listening are not included. You can add supported clippings or documents from those channels yourself, but uploading them does not automatically transcribe or analyse their contents.
How it works
You do not need to send us a brief to get started. The portal gives you the controls to create, maintain and review your own campaigns, with a straightforward workflow from setup to ongoing monitoring.
Register on our website, verify your email and sign in to your private monitoring portal. You can return to your campaigns whenever you need to review coverage.
Name your campaign and add 1–10 comma-separated keywords or phrases. Use your organisation, product, spokesperson or campaign name, then choose the coverage sources you want to include.
Use Search now to look for public matches. Active campaigns with news or social sources also receive a scheduled daily search at 09:00 South Africa time. Add your own clippings when automated discovery does not cover the source.
Search your saved feed, filter by source and open original articles or uploaded files. Edit campaign keywords as your brief changes, or pause and resume automatic monitoring yourself.
Better keywords, more useful results. Choose distinctive names and specific phrases rather than broad terms such as “business” or “launch”. Create a separate campaign when the topic, audience or reporting objective changes.
Inside your dashboard
A practical workspace for organising the coverage you find, checking the stories behind it and keeping your monitoring brief current.
Create separate campaigns for brands, projects or topics. Adjust keywords and source selections without relying on an external monitoring team.
Find saved mentions by title, publication or summary, and filter between news/web, public social and uploaded coverage.
See total saved items and the breakdown across your selected source types. These are coverage counts, not estimated audience reach or advertising value.
Keep active campaigns on the daily schedule or request a search from the dashboard. Pause automatic monitoring when a campaign ends and resume it when needed.
Follow article links to read the source material and open privately stored clippings from the same campaign feed. Verify important claims against the original coverage.
Keep your campaign settings and coverage in your own account. Uploaded files use temporary access links rather than permanent public URLs.
Built around your brief
Follow mentions of your organisation, leadership and announcements. Maintain separate campaigns for brand visibility and specific communications initiatives.
Organise a campaign for each client brief or media push. Collect discoverable coverage and add supplied clippings without mixing unrelated accounts or projects.
Track a distinctive launch name, event title or spokesperson. Review saved coverage through the campaign and retain the relevant clippings after the activation ends.
Follow public mentions of programmes, community projects and spokespeople. Keep the stories and documents relevant to each initiative in one place.
Create topic-led campaigns using specific competitor names or industry phrases. Review what public sources are saying without treating search results as a complete market record.
Monitor public mentions of a known issue or organisational statement. Run an on-demand search when needed; this is not a real-time crisis alert service.
Your questions, answered
Yes. Register, verify your email and create a campaign from your dashboard. You control the campaign name, keywords, source selection and whether scheduled monitoring is active.
Yes. Create separate campaigns for different brands, projects or topics and switch between them in the portal. Each campaign has its own keywords and coverage feed.
Active campaigns that include news/web or public social sources are scheduled for a daily search at 09:00 South Africa time. Search now lets you request a search from your dashboard. Results depend on source availability and public search indexing, so discovery is not instant or guaranteed.
No. Social discovery is limited to publicly indexed posts available through web search. Private content, complete platform feeds and comprehensive social listening are not currently included.
Not currently. You can add supported print clippings, screenshots or documents as uploaded coverage. Direct broadcast capture, transcription and licensed print feeds require additional data services and are not part of the current automated offering.
The current dashboard shows saved coverage counts by source and lets you review individual mentions. It does not currently provide automated sentiment scores, audience reach, advertising-value estimates or downloadable analysis reports.
Campaigns and coverage are account-specific. Uploaded clippings are stored privately and opened through temporary access links. They do not receive permanent public download URLs.
A page may be unindexed, paywalled, private, outside the search window or not match your keywords. AI-assisted public search is not exhaustive. Refine your phrases, verify results against original sources and upload supported clippings you have collected yourself. Automated searches consume integration credits.
Start your monitoring brief
Bring your brand names, campaign phrases and source preferences. Create a workspace you can manage yourself, then keep the coverage that matters in view.
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