✨What's new ?

Q1 2026

👔 LinkedIn: New "Employee Advocacy" Monitoring

• Analyze the posts and activity of a company’s employees on LinkedIn (search by company rather than by keywords).

• Identify your opinion leaders, track key topics, and enhance your competitive and industry monitoring.

Contact your account manager for more information.

📩 New Options for Reports

In a recurring email report, when no posts have been made during the period, certain sections may appear empty.

• You can now choose whether or not to display these empty sections, and decide whether you want to receive an email at all if the report is completely empty.

🔧 Other updates

• A security alert is now sent to users in case of a fraudulent login attempt

• Alerts: it is now possible to send the same alert to multiple Telegram channels (“chat IDs”) at the same time

• Reports: “pie chart” view is now available in email reports

• All sources: new char_count: filter to filter posts by character count (example: char_count:<10 or char_count:>1000)

• Instagram: new indicator for the account’s country, with an associated filter (country:)

• LinkedIn: mention_company: and mention_member: operators in settings to explicitly monitor mentions of a page or account

• TikTok: new filters is_ai_generated:true/false and is_paid_partnership:true/false

• X: new edited:true/false filter to filter edited posts

• X: statistics on verification types (blue/business/politics) now available in Analytics

Q4 2025

📆 Saving time ranges

• Pin a favorite time range in one click

• Available across the entire platform: Explore, Smartboards, QuickTrends

🎨 Custom colors in Smartboards

• Click the “Sample color” eyedropper to choose any color you like

• You can pick a color from an existing image or website

• Find your favorite colors at the end of the list

🔧 Other new updates

• Semantic analysis is now available in German

• Drag-and-drop to reorganize sections of a Report or a Smartboard

• You can now archive a Smartboard in the Smartboards list

• “World map” widget available in Smartboards

• Instagram: co-authors available in GEXF exports

• LinkedIn: new filters industry: and industry_contains:

• YouTube: new engagement_rate: filter to filter videos by engagement rate (example: engagement_rate:>10%)

Q3 2025

💡 New source: News

• Monitoring of online media (online press, blogs, and news sites)

• More than 200 million websites covered worldwide

• In real time

📊 Improvements to Smartboards

• Hide a curve on a timeline

• Copy operations from one section to another within the same Smartboard

🔧 Other new features

• New sorting option by engagement rate for users

• Extended display for long filters

• New export format: JSON

• Bluesky: Easily view posts quoting another post with the “Get Quotes” option

• CSV export of the list of all your topics (titles and settings)

Q2 2025

🔓 Two-Factor Authentication

• Visibrain allows you to enhance the security of your account with two-factor authentication (2FA/MFA).

• You can enable this feature from your user account settings.

• If you need assistance setting up 2FA, please contact your account manager.

🌍 Countries and Cities data available on LinkedIn

• Visibrain now provides an indicator for the country and city of accounts, for both users and companies who have shared this information.

• An aggregated view of countries and cities is available in Analytics.

• The filters country: and city: are now available on LinkedIn.

📊 Smartboard enhancements

• You can now prioritize Smartboards by marking them as favorites.

• From a Shared Link, it's possible to export the Smartboard as a PDF.

• Timelines can now be displayed with weekly precision.

• In Bar Charts, you can customize the display order of legends.

• New features have been added across the different Smartboard sections to enhance analytical capabilities.

• It's now possible to display ratios between two KPIs in the "counts" sections.

🔧 Other Updates

• Improved display of the Quotas page

• The list of Topics and Users is now available for export

• Manage the Filter Library directly from the Settings page

• Detection and sorting of parody accounts on X

• Ranking by interactions is now available on LinkedIn

• The filters has_image and has_media are now available on LinkedIn

• The filters replied_contains, replied_user, and replied_bio_contains are now available on Bluesky

• Verified badges are now supported on Bluesky and can be used to sort users

• Errors within Topics are now highlighted for better clarity

• Improved tweet presentation in Alerts and Reports

Q1 2025

💡 New Source : Bluesky

• 100% of public posts, in real time

• Historical data available since 2021

• Monitoring by keywords or by list of channels

• All Visibrain features available (Explore, Filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, Exports, Mapping)

🔧 Other Updates

• The creation and modification dates of Topics, Reports, and Alerts are now available

• Alerts and Reports: A red alert appears if there are issues sending Reports or Alerts. The “view recent activity” option helps identify the problem

• Topics: A red alert appears on the Topic page to indicate an invalid account in a panel

• Topics: Manual addition of posts is now possible

• Smartboards: You can lock the time period when sharing Smartboards using the “hide datepicker” option

Q4 2024

✨ New Filter: proximity:

• A new filtering operator based on word proximity is now available.

• Works across all sources.

• Maximum distance between words: 5 words.

• Example usage:

  • proximity:"apple samsung"~4 will capture posts where "apple" and "samsung" appear within 4 words of each other, in any order.

  • Example match: "Samsung competes with Apple in wireless earbuds."

🔧 Other Updates

• Facebook: Now supports the "Care" reaction.

• Topics: Error messages are now highlighted when a monitored account does not exist.

• Filters: New option to copy the entire filter to the clipboard from the filter bar.

• Smartboards: Added a logarithmic scale option for timelines.

Q3 2024

💡 New Source : Telegram

• Coverage : 5M public channels

• Keyword or Channel monitoring

• Visibrain features (Explore, Filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, Exports, Cartographics analysis)

🤝 Smartboard Sharing

• Share your Smartboard with your team through a simple link

• Highly confidential

  • Create multiple links for a Smartboard

  • Define the expiration date

  • Deactivate when needed

🔍 User Management Interface

• Manage users' rights directly on your account

• Add and delete users

• 5 levels of user rights : ADMIN, TOPICS EDITOR, STANDARD, READER or SMARTBOARD READER

🔧 Other Updates

• LinkedIn : Monitor through exact expressions to be more precise

Q2 2024

🏃 X (Twitter): Migration to API v2

X has released a new version of its Enterprise API, which provides the highest level of data access and is used by Visibrain. This update introduces several new capabilities:

• Sort posts by view count

• Increased QuickTrends query size: Now supports 4096 characters (previously 2048).

• New filters for account creation date:

  • user_account_age:

  • user_creation_date:

  • user_creation_day:

• Improved handling of sensitive content with the new sensitive: filter.

• Better management of reply tweets.

• Minor changes in available operators for creating X topics:

  • profile_country:, profile_region:, and profile_locality: have been removed.

🫂 Instagram: Co-Author Management

• Co-authors of an Instagram post are now displayed.

• New filters available:

  • coauthor:

  • has_coauthors:true/false

🔧 Other Updates

• Autocomplete for filter operators in filtering boxes.

• Automatic email alerts if there's a risk of exceeding the X post volume quota.

• Passwordless authentication via a magic link sent by email.

• Improved time zone management.

• TikTok: New type: filter to sort by post type (photo or video).

Q1 2024

💡 New Source: Threads

• Monitoring of all public posts

• Keyword-based tracking or account list monitoring

• Full access to Visibrain features (Explore, filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, exports, and mapping)

⬆️ On-Demand Engagement Metrics Update

You can now refresh engagement metrics for one or multiple posts with just a few clicks!

• To update a post’s metrics: Dropdown menu > Refresh post metrics

• To update metrics for all posts on a page: Dropdown menu > Refresh metrics

• Available for all sources except X/Twitter (where metrics update in real-time).

📈 QuickTrends Now Covers Up to 1 Year

• Generate QuickTrends timelines for up to 1 year (previously limited to 30 days).

• The maximum window is 1 year, but data is available since 2006 (e.g., you can create a timeline from January 2015 to December 2015).

🔧 Other Updates:

• Alerts: SMS alerts now come from "Visibrain" instead of a random phone number.

• Smartboards: New "Screenshot" feature for each widget.

• QuickTrends: Added a percentage indicator.

• Quotas: Now includes quarterly subscriptions.

• X/Twitter: New shortcut "Exclude tweet + replies + quotes" in the tweet dropdown menu.

Q4 2023

💡 New Source : LinkedIn

• All public posts from pages and professionals

• Full access to Visibrain features (Explore, filters, Alerts, Reports, Smartboards, exports, and mapping)

• LinkedIn reactions now taken into account (sorting options, filters, and pie chart visualization)

• LinkedIn-specific filters, including is_company

📅 "Smart" Date Selector

• You can now enter start or end dates in natural language, e.g., "This morning" or "February 1st at 11 AM", and the platform will automatically translate them into exact dates.

• Ability to use "now" (or "maintenant") as an end date.

• New date presets: Current month, Last month, Current year...

• History of recently selected time periods

✉️ RSS Feeds in Visibrain

• It is now possible to create an RSS feed from an alert.

• Contact your account manager for more details on this feature.

🔧 Other Updates:

• Integration of Olvid (secure messaging) for sending Alerts and Reports

• Facebook: Added "Sort by Followers" option for posts

Q3 2023

🔧 X (Twitter) Updates

• Sorting by Likes: You can now sort tweets (X posts) by the number of Likes.

• New Badge Display:

  • Gold Badge: Verified organization.

  • Gray Badge: Governmental or official government organization.

  • These badges are now visible on posts and user profiles.

• New Filter – verified_type:: Filter accounts based on their badge type.

🔧 Other Updates

• Smartboards: New option to format timelines as bar charts.

• QuickTrends: Improved error messages for better clarity.

• Usage & Quotas:

  • Improved interface for usage tracking.

  • Ability to download consumption data in CSV format.

• Facebook:

  • New filter !page_name_contains (same as page_name_contains: but case-sensitive).

Q2 2023

✨ New Features

• New Alert and Reports delivery mode via Microsoft Teams

• New filter profile_contains: enables you to research a keyword or list of letters in an account's details : display name, account name, biography, (combines bio_contains, username_contains: and displayname_contains: filtering options ...)

• Twitter: number of replies, quoted tweets and views available in overall tweet KPIs

🔧 Upgrades

• Globals Filters available on multiple monitoring Modules

• Clone your Alerts and Reports

• An error message will appear in case of mistakes in Topic creation

• Twitter: permalink available in CSV exports

• Two users can edit a Smartboard simultaneously

• Different platform upgrades

Q1 2023

✨ New Features

• New filter full_contains: enables you to research a keyword or a character sequence in all the monitored content: in a post, article, quoted tweet ... (combines thecontains, link_title_contains, link_description_contains, quoted_contains ... filters)

• Key expressions GEXF export option (Gephi)

• Filtering option on your press review: "New Articles Only"

• Instagram: New section "Posts Types" available in the analytics tab and new filter post_type: enables you to filter through different types of content (Reels, TGTV, Feed)

• Tiktok: new filter sound_contains: enables you research a character sequence in sound titles and authors (combines sound_title_contains: & sound_author_contains: filters)

• Youtube: new filter duration: filter down your content by videos length

🔧 Upgrades

• Explore: new timeline KPI: potential impressions, number of reactions, number of likes ....

• Smartboard: Unique Tweets and Users KPI options

• Smartboard: display of analysis period in the PDF export

• Twitter: rank tweets in your tweet review by the Twitter account's audience

• TikTok: Account details added in your CSV exports, new filters !username_contains: & !displayname_contains: to search for case & accent sensitive words

• Different platform upgrades

New major version of the platform

✨ News

• Smartboard, customizable dashboards enabling you to analyse and present different data sets

• Reports, (replaces Digest alerts) to create automatic multi-topic reports

• Added TikTok as new data source

• Added YouTube as new data source

• 100% responsive interface for mobile and tablet compatibility

• Turbo mode for large topics (>50,000 posts per day)

🔧 Improvements

• PDF and HTML export of reports

• "Do Not Disturb" mode in alerts

• QuickTrends: save requests and display in histogram

• and more than 100 diverses ameliorations

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