A couple months ago we released post tagging to support the analysis of your campaigns in quintly. So far posts could be tagged manually. Today we are enabling you to automate that process based on simple rules.

To get started, log into quintly, go to Tags > Tag Manager and click into the tag you would like to automate. Click "New rule", then specify what profiles should be considered and when to tag a post based on its publishing time and the words within the post text. You can configure the automation to include any future post by setting the end date to forever.

Once set up, the system will first tag all matching posts from the past and then continuously apply the rule whenever new posts come in or existing ones update.

To have full transparency into when a post got tagged you can find the most recently tagged posts on the tag detail page and when hovering a tag within the Post tags section.

We are excited to have this feature released. Let us know about feedback by reaching out to our support at support@quintly.com.

By default LinkedIn replaces URLs in posts with their own shortened links if the original link exceeds 26 characters. Here is a screenshot of a post on LinkedIn showing a shortened link right before the hashtags are being listed:

To allow for powerful search using our post text filter, we are auto-replacing the LinkedIn short URL with the original URL in quintly:

As a result of this change all URLs - also those longer than 26 characters - will show the original URL in quintly. This allows for powerful filtering using our post text filter.

Based on a recent change by Instagram we can now show video views for Instagram carousel posts. So far Instagram did not provide a view count for these posts. Now it shows the sum of video views across all videos within the carousel. If a carousel includes no videos, no views can be shown.

Our date selector now follows the week definition preference you have set in your account settings. So far it was showing the week from Sunday to Saturday in all cases.

A new API endpoint has been added to return the schema and meta information of our data sources, including detailed descriptions for each column. This endpoint is especially helpful for building integrations into business intelligence software.

You can now use simple "Save" and "Save as..." options within our custom metric builder. "Save" updates the current metric. "Save as..." creates a copy of that metric using a new name.

We are thrilled to announce that you can now co-label your reports/dashboards with a custom logo. This is another feature that was on top of the wishlist of our clients. Let’s dive in.

How does it work?

In a nutshell, this co-labeling update allows our customers to personalize their dashboards and reports by adding their logo. This customization is available on two access levels:

• Globally - available in "Spaces", you will be able to set a logo for all dashboards/reports within the Space.
• Specific to a dashboard - you can set/overwrite your logo for each specific dashboard/report independently.

How to get started?

Depending on the usage, whether you would like to have a global brand setup or more granular setting, navigate to either “Admin Settings / Space” and set the logo there, or visit the dashboard that you would like to brand and click edit. In both cases, once you click save, the logo will be saved and displayed in any shared/exported resources, whether it is a jpg/png/pdf/link export or automated reports. The newly selected logo will be added there.

Pricing and availability

Co-labelling is already available for free to everyone as of today. It is automatically added to any accounts that are enrolled to the new subscription model. Users, who are currently still on the old subscription model will get free three months trial access to this feature. If you would like to find out how to upgrade to the new subscription model, please reach out to our support team.

We are happy to announce that quintly has added IGTV to its data source collection. It was especially sought after by a lot of our clients and we are very thrilled to deliver it to you just one day after the official release (as of 16th of March 2021). This update brings both public and private data from IGTV. Let’s dive in 😀.

Data sources

instagramTvPosts - Holding public information about IGTV videos of Instagram Business or Creator Accounts, including interaction rate, comments, likes, and follower counts.

instagramInsightsTvPosts - Holding information about IGTV videos of Instagram Business or Creator Accounts with all their private statistics attached. It includes the above plus reach, engagement, number of times saved, impressions, and more.

Those data sources do not include regular posts (covered extensively by other sets) or Reels (they are not yet available).

Metrics

As always, we have created some default metrics to get you started. What is important to mention is that no existing metrics are affected by this update, so no review on your side will be required.

This was one of the most requested features/data points by our customers and we are happy to deliver it so quickly (huge thank you to our team 👏👏👏). Happy analyzing!

We are pleased to announce an important update to YouTube metrics. This is the first iteration, focusing on the deep-level metrics on the video level, including a historic development of a single video. The second iteration will soon follow, introducing metrics on the Channel and Playlist level. It is safe to say that thanks to this improvement, we match metrics available on YouTube itself, putting quintly at the forefront of social media analytics tools when it comes to YouTube. Let's dive in.

Process

Working with YouTube analytics on video level always came with caveats. The sheer amount of data that each video contains and the API limitations only allowed us to perform a snapshot analysis (data snap from the time requested). The process also caused occasional timeouts via Youtube API. It was virtually impossible to get data on many videos in a single request due to YouTube’s limitations.

Having all of those challenges on hand, we have decided to completely rethink how we handle the private stats on the video level. We have opted for storing the data in our data layer. This route has completely reshaped how and what kind of data will be accessible to you and at an astonishing speed.

Data

This update has created and updated data sources: 

• youtubeAnalyticsVideos - private-level aggregated data on videos created within the selected time period.
• youtubeAnalyticsTopVideos - [UPDATE] private-level data of the top videos within the channel from the selected time period. The update removes any previous limitations of a maximum of 200 videos.
• youtubeAnalyticsVideosTimeSeries - interval-based private-level data (daily, weekly, monthly) for each video.

Behind each of those, there is a massive volume of organized records that is time-based. Each of those data sources would have different use cases ranging from 10 best performing videos over time to performance of the video for the 30 first days.

What's next

With this update, we have finally closed the gap for historical data for YouTube single videos. There was so much performance work done to handle this sheer amount, so we are confident that our clients will find this in-depth analytics very useful. As mentioned above, the first batch of default metrics has already been delivered, you can find them here and here. The second iteration of this analytics, including Channel and Playlist data, will follow shortly.

We are looking forward to your feedback and your use cases. We are really pleased with this update.

Happy New Year from quintly! We are very excited to announce that Tiktok analytics are now available within our platform! This was one of the biggest requests from you in 2020, so we are happy to deliver it fresh into the new year.

How is Tiktok tracked?
Building on top of the open TikTok API, we are able to track your profiles and their posts. Once you start tracking a profile on quintly, we will store historic data about that profile starting from this point onwards.

What data is tracked?
As mentioned above, quintly tracks data available via the open TikTok API:
- On Profile level: following and followers count, the number of likes and videos. This data is served on a time series basis so you can track changes over time.
- On Posts level: basic information (the thumbnail, link description, and hashtags), length, challenges, and music attached to the video, performance-based (views, likes, comments, and shares) and post tags.

Default metrics
As it is a completely new data source, we have created default metrics. As always, the real power of the metrics would be the use cases that you will create. TikTok is available for post tagging, custom metric builder, and API instantly. The new data sources sit directly alongside other data from other networks in our data layer, so it can be combined in cross-network reports.

How to get started
Tracking a TikTok profile requires authentication. Simply go to the Account > Profiles section in quintly, click "New profiles", and then make use of the "Continue with TikTok" option. You will be asked to grant permissions to access information of your TikTok profile.And that's it! You can now start tracking your TikTok profile in quintly.

We are extremely excited to bring this feature to you, so go ahead and add TikTok to your social media analytics mix!