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Brand-Mention Monitoring
Track when your tracked competitors get mentioned in news, blogs, and Hacker News.
How it works
Big competitor moves usually trigger press first — a launch, a funding round, a viral tweet. ADSTRO polls Google News RSS and the Hacker News Algolia API every 24 hours for every brand on your watchlist (and aliases you define). Mentions land in the same feed as new ads, so the press coverage and the creative push line up on the same timeline. Skim the volume chart, click into the article, decide if you need to react.
See it in your dashboard
Key highlights
What makes this different
Google News + Hacker News on a 24h poll
Per-brand volume chart shows surges
Aliases capture brand variants ("gymshark inc", "gymshark uk")
Feeds the same alert webhooks as Facebook signals