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Media Outreach and Coverage Timeline

Learn how the Media Outreach and Coverage Timeline AI Visibility chart helps you compare outreach activity and media coverage trends over time for your tracked entities.

Note: AI Visibility is available as a paid add-on to the CisionOne platform. For more information, contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) or Account Manager (AM).

The Media Outreach and Coverage Timeline AI Visibility chart provides a combined view of outreach activity and entity media coverage over time. You can select Media Items or Social Stream in the Chart tab to determine which outreach activity data is displayed alongside coverage trends.

Details Panel Overview

To explore additional chart details and settings for the chart:

  1. Select the ellipsis menu (⋮) on the chart and select Edit.

  2. Use the tabs in the Details panel to refine chart data, review source information, and explore AI-generated answers.

The Details panel includes:

  • Chart: Filter the chart data.

  • Social Streams: Select a social stream to compare against the selected entity and display its activity alongside media coverage trends in the chart.

  • Labels: Customize the chart title and add an optional description to provide additional context for viewers.

  • Media Items: Review the coverage contributing to the chart metrics, filter results, and analyze individual media items.

  • AI Visibility: Review source data across Domains, URLs, and Industries.

  • AI Visibility Answers: Review prompts, AI-generated answers, detected entities, and sources associated with the selected chart data.

Using the Chart tab

Use the Chart tab to refine the data displayed in the chart.

Depending on your dashboard configuration, you can filter by:

  • AI model

  • Entity

  • Media Outreach

  • Mention Stream

  • Media Type

  • Date range

  • Chart type: Choose how the data is visualized.

    Available options include:

  1. Line Chart: Displays mention volume trends over time using lines.

  2. Bar Chart: Displays mention volume using separate vertical bars.

  3. Horizontal Bar Chart: Displays mention volume using horizontal bars for easier comparison.

  4. Line Area Chart: Displays trends over time with shaded areas representing mention volume.

  5. Stacked Horizontal Bar Chart: Displays total mention volume using horizontal bars with AI model contributions stacked within each bar.

  6. Stacked Vertical Bar Chart: Displays total mention volume over time with contributions from each AI model stacked within each bar.

  • View by: Choose whether to display mention volume by Day, Month, or Quarter to analyze coverage trends at different levels of granularity (available for specific chart types).

Using the Social Streams tab

Select a social stream to compare its activity against the selected entity's media coverage.

Using the Labels tab

Use the Labels tab to customize the chart title and add an optional description. The description appears when users hover over the information icon beside the chart title

In the Labels tab, you can:

  • Title: Enter a custom chart title or select Reset to default title to restore the original title.

  • Description: Add an optional summary that explains the purpose of the chart, highlights key findings, or provides additional context for viewers. Select Reset to default description to remove custom changes.

Using the Media Items tab

The Media Items tab helps you understand the coverage behind the chart metrics by providing direct access to the articles and mentions used to generate the chart data.

From the Media Items tab, you can:

  • View article details, including the source, publication date, and content preview.

  • Filter and sort media items to find relevant coverage by selecting the filter icon.

  • Select individual or multiple media items for analysis.

  • Generate a Mention Stream Report in PDF or CSV format by selecting the report icon.

  • Open the ellipsis menu (⋮) for additional actions, including:

  1. View Full Media Item

  2. Push to Team

  3. Share

  4. View Similar Mentions

  5. Curated Email Report

  6. Tag

  7. Remove from Mention Stream

  • Navigate through pages of media items when multiple results are available.

To view media items for a specific date, select a data point on the Mention Stream line in the Media Outreach and Coverage Timeline chart. The details panel updates to display the media items for the selected date.

Using the AI Visibility tab

The AI Visibility tab displays source data across the Domains, URLs, and Industries tabs for the selected entities. Use this information to understand which sources contribute to the entities' AI visibility and how much each source contributes.

  • Domains: View the domains referenced by AI models and their share of visibility.

  • URLs: View the specific web pages referenced by AI models and their share of visibility.

  • Industries: View the industries associated with the referenced sources and their share of visibility.

  • Authors: View the authors associated with the referenced sources and their share of author citations.

Using the AI Visibility Answers tab

You can review AI-generated answers for all entities by opening the AI Visibility Answers tab from the chart's Edit view.

To view answers for a specific entity and date, select a data point in the Media Outreach and Coverage Timeline chart. This opens AI Visibility Answers filtered to the selected entity and corresponding chart date.

The AI Visibility Answers tab lets you review:

  • Prompts

  • AI-generated answers

  • Detected entities

  • Sources

For detailed information about prompts, answers, filters, detected entities, and sources, see Viewing AI Visibility answers in Instant Insights.

Using the Notes section

Use the Notes section below the chart to record observations, insights, or additional context related to the chart results. Notes are limited to 570 characters in PDF reports.

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