Using Explore to Find and Add Media Contacts to Your Lists
Good morning, mCommunity!
If you have Media Relations in your Meltwater subscription, your Explore searches instantly become a two-for-one – you’ve already done the heavy lifting creating a search to capture coverage on topics of interest, so why not take that hard work one step further and find media contacts already writing about what you care about?
The Media Contacts tab in Explore allows you to do just that!
After you’ve opened a saved search, click on Media Contacts.
This tab will automatically populate the media contacts who are writing about the topics or keywords you’ve used in your search. Adjust the date range in the top right-hand corner to increase the results as you would in the Overview tab.
Selecting a contact’s name will provide a mini profile on the right-hand slide out. Each mini-profile will include:
- Name and location
- Sources
- Beats
- Lists
- Recent Articles
- Social Media
- Contact Information
Additionally, you can view their full profile.
To add a contact to a media list, hover over the contact and select Add to list in the top right-hand corner of the contact card.
Select an existing list or create a new list, and click OK.
Voilà! You can cross two hurdles with one leap, all within an Explore search 🙂
All contacts added to a new or existing list from your Explore search will now live in the Media Relations tool. Click the Media Relations drop-down and select My Contacts. This will be the home to all of your Media Lists and contacts.
Learn more about Using the Media Contacts Tab in Explore in our Help Center or check out this video walkthrough.
In the comments below, let us know what other topics you’d like to learn tips and tricks about, and we’d be happy to share additional insights!