Chartbeat for Publishing
HEADS UP DISPLAY
Adapt and improve what your readers see.
Know which homepage articles are your top performers, how stories are trending up or down in traffic, and how far visitors are scrolling down the page. Adapt the user experience accordingly, all in your normal workflow.
- Compare clickthrough rate to post-click engagement for every link on a page
- Filter by mobile, tablet, or desktop
- Automated insights flag noteworthy trends and benchmarks
HISTORICAL DASHBOARD
Evaluate success over
time.
Intuitively assess content performance, KPIs, and valuable trends over the long term.
- Filter by custom date range, section, and author
- Compare Total Engaged Minutes, Pageviews, and Average Engaged Time for site and articles
- Automated insights flag noteworthy trends and benchmarks
VIDEO DASHBOARD
Understand the stories
that resonate.
Grasp how your video content captures viewer attention so you can capitalize on distribution opportunities.
- Compare Starts, Playrate, Engagement, and Ad Drop-off for site and articles
- Integration with Real-Time Dashboard and Advanced Queries tools
- Auto-generated recommendations for optimal video placement
REAL-TIME DASHBOARD
Find your best readers.
Understand how your audience is connecting with your content in the moment – across platforms, channels, and devices – so you can act to optimize when trends happen.
- Filter data by sections, authors, location, traffic source and referrer, device type and more
- Slice all data by visitor frequency, subscriber status, and native app traffic
- Integrations with Facebook Instant Articles and Google AMP
- Offsite social monitoring through Facebook’s CrowdTangle
REPORTS
Analysis straight to
your inbox.
Start each day with relevant site, section, and author data through recurring email reports containing unique auto-generated insights fueled by Chartbeat data science.
- Use auto-generated insights in each report to identify unique and noteworthy patterns and trends in your audience data
- Preview individual reports, manage subscriptions, and easily share reports through email format
- Gather additional detail through integration with the Historical Dashboard
MULTI-SITE VIEW
Group your sites together in one
dashboard.
Provides a simple way to track how multiple sites are doing – in real time and looking back over time. Create roll-ups of multiple sites in any configuration, and apply this mode to Chartbeat’s Real-Time Dashboard, Big Board, mobile app, and (coming soon) Historical Dashboard.
- Automate recommendations on your site with our suite of APIs to surface engaging content based on reader behaviors
- Power any existing or new recommendation widgets or sections on your site
- Analyze user engagement with the recommendations with a weekly impact report
MOBILE APP
Stay on top of traffic anywhere you go.
Understand the pulse of your story across the web with the app version of our flagship product. Stay on top of traffic anywhere you go, and use Chartbeat’s content intelligence to build readers’ loyalty. Available for iOS and Android.
NATIVE APP INTEGRATION
Connect your native app audience to the power of Chartbeat.
Pull app traffic into the Real-time Dashboard to learn what’s resonating with your most loyal audience on a second-by-second basis — which sections they’re engaging with, how push alerts draw their interest, and more.
- Get an instant read on audience size
- Find content that engages app readers
- Compare engagement and loyalty metrics for native and web
audiences - Actively curate content and develop strategies for your app
audience - Improve the effectiveness of your push notifications
- See traffic breakdowns across iOS and Android
We are able to consistently optimize the homepage experience — key to subscriber growth and retention — for engagement and usability. If a piece of content is under-performing, we see it now and can take immediate action, making changes or swapping it out.
Kurt Gessler
Project Manager, Tribune Publishing
Being able to extract live data has been transformational. We are able to make live content decisions backed up by research from platforms which is relevant at the time of publication. The app makes it possible for me to stay in touch with performance when I am not working.
Verified User
Manager
Chartbeat allows us [to] know extremely quickly what content is most important to our readers, and thereby allows us a strategic advantage on other platforms.
John Byrne
CEO, Raw Story Media
Chartbeat is used across our company as a key analytical tool to monitor audience for our online news platforms. We use it at a national, regional and local level for in excess of 50 news media sites.
Verified User
It’s not just the impact of the tools themselves that are helpful for real-time decision-making, it’s how easy it is to access and use them. Everyone in our newsroom uses Chartbeat.
Flavio Moreira
SEO Editor at UOL
Since Chartbeat was made available it is used as a constant tool by our senior editorial team to judge what coverage is attracting audience and this influences further decisions over immediate editorial and strategic planning.
Verified User
[Engaged Minutes] is much more valuable to us than pageviews. It gives us a much deeper understanding of how our readers are interacting with our content.
Gabe Isman
Director of Technology, The Marshall Project
Chartbeat provides the fastest and cleanest signals from the audience of any analytics product available.
Verified User
Executive
Using this software has helped us make editorial decisions that have led to substantial gains in traffic and users.
Verified User
Product Management
It’s great for a newsroom, an editorial team, as well as marketing and other editorial brand needs.
Jerry Portwood
Editorial Director, Rolling Stone
Want to learn more? Let’s talk.