New in Spike: Predict Viral Stories

August 31, 2016

Written by NewsWhip
spike feature image

You can now sort stories by their predicted social engagement in Spike, meaning that you’ll be first to the viral stories on social. 
Here at NewsWhip, we’re constantly watching new stories become big viral moments in a matter of hours.
For publishers, being ahead of these stories can help you get read. For PR agencies and marketers, it can help you track relevant conversations and find stories to respond to.

Social distribution isn’t going away. From June to July, our top 25 English-language publishers saw an 11 percent increase in Facebook engagements. More than ever, people turn to their social networks to find out the latest news.

Publishers and marketers race to discover which stories are getting attention in a unending universe of content and digital noise.

We’ve now made it easier than ever to find those stories. NewsWhip Spike lets you sort stories by their predicted social interactions to take the guesswork out of what’s pushing the needle on social.

predicted interactions spike

You can access this via the Sort By menu for Stories. For best discovery, it works best in 30 minute, one hour, or three hour views.

How to Sort by Prediction in Spike

To view stories sorted by their predicted social engagements, click the Sort by menu at the right of your screen in Spike.

sort by predicted interactions

After that, set your view for the time period you want to look at. Three hours and under work best for content discovery.

 Spike time

You can dive deeper by applying this view to your already saved web panels, the panels in Discover, or exploring different regions and topics.

This is a one hour view of science stories with the highest predicted interactions. The current interaction scores are at the base of each graph, while the predicted scores are to the right.

How accurate are the predictions? For one hour old stories, our forecasts are, on average, accurate to within +/-21% of the predicted score. For three hour old stories, our forecasts are, on average, accurate to within +/-12% of the predicted score.

More Spike News

That’s not all! Here are our other latest updates to NewsWhip Spike.

Add a Source via Search: If you search for a source, whether it’s a website, Facebook page, YouTube channel, or Instagram user, and we’re not tracking it, users can simply hit “Add” in the search menu to request the source be added to our database.

 Spike add source

New design for search results: There’s stronger contrast between result types and a more logical grouping of hashtags for Twitter search in the results dropdown.

spike search results new design

With Spike’s latest changes and features, finding the content wins is easier than ever.

Take a free NewsWhip Spike trial now and discover what’s going to go viral next

 

NewsWhip

You might also like

The narratives shaping Artificial Intelligence discourse in 2023

The narratives shaping Artificial Intelligence discourse in 2023

In 2023 we’ve experienced a rapid rise in artificial intelligence discourse, as the public begin to see firsthand the impact these advances have on their daily lives, while grappling with concerns over ethics, job elimination, and how it will evolve.  In the last five...

Consolidate and share insights with our new Weekly Digests

Consolidate and share insights with our new Weekly Digests

Here at NewsWhip, a big focus of what we’re building is to allow our users to always be aware of what’s going on, even when they’re not logged into the platform. Sometimes, that involves receiving alerts as soon as a story is published, or as soon as it’s predicted to...

The top publishers on Facebook in Spain for 2023

The top publishers on Facebook in Spain for 2023

Every month, we look at the top publishers on Facebook around the US and the UK. Though these spots offer valuable insight, we want to expand our reach even further in an effort to analyze trending topics in other cultural hubs. To do this, we’re going global and...

Related articles

Consolidate and share insights with our new Weekly Digests

Consolidate and share insights with our new Weekly Digests

Here at NewsWhip, a big focus of what we’re building is to allow our users to always be aware of what’s going on, even when they’re not logged into the platform. Sometimes, that involves receiving alerts as soon as a story is published, or as soon as it’s predicted to...

read more
Announcing our new Highlights feature

Announcing our new Highlights feature

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our new Highlights feature, which is now available in NewsWhip Spike. With this feature, NewsWhip is taking real-time media monitoring to the next level with real-time insights.  Here’s what you can expect. Introducing:...

read more
Q3 2022 NewsWhip product updates

Q3 2022 NewsWhip product updates

Here at NewsWhip, we’re all about bringing you clarity on what matters, and saving you time, and our Q3 updates do just that.  In Q3, we’ve brought our users:  Richer insights through Timeline previous period  Easier and more powerful search options with our curated...

read more
Wordpress Social Share Plugin powered by Ultimatelysocial