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Online news monitoring

We track mentions of your organisation and your competitors across online news sites in Africa and beyond, and alert you as each story publishes.

What is included

Alerts while the story is small

An online story can travel overnight. An alert at publication gives you the first hours to respond, rather than spending them explaining why you did not know.

A selection of the outlets we monitor

167 outlets in our directory, from our clients' coverage and our own source research. The full list is in our coverage directory.

Online news

  • Citi Newsroom
  • The Patriot On Sunday
  • Business Weekly
  • GBC Ghana Online
  • IOL
  • Mmegi Online
  • Daily Maverick
  • TimesLIVE
  • BusinessLIVE
  • Weekend Post
  • Botswana Youth
  • SNL24
  • Mail & Guardian
  • Botswana Gazette
  • AfricanFinancials
  • Daily News (Botswana)
  • Polity
  • Sunday Standard
  • Botswana Unplugged
  • The Voice
  • Guardian Sun
  • TechCentral
  • SABC News
  • Business Day

Questions

How quickly will I hear about a story?

Alerts go out at the moment a story publishes, across every channel in your scope, rather than in a digest the next morning. They are routed to the people who can act on them, not to a shared inbox.

Can I try Social Light before paying?

Yes. Creating an account takes about ten minutes and does not ask for a card. Nothing is charged until you choose a package. You can also book a demo, or take our free media intelligence assessment to see how much of your own coverage you are currently seeing.

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