Why Channels?

Sometimes, monitoring keywords alone is not enough; you need to see all posts from a specific page. For example, this can be a brand's official page or group on social media.

We call these pages "channels." By adding a channel to your topic, you can receive all posts from the channel, regardless of other topic settings.

How are posts collected from Channels?

By adding a page channel, you can select the desired time period for your data collection (the default setting is a month).

Then, all online posts and comments from the page will be monitored. The stream update frequency starts at 10 minutes and takes up to several hours.

☝️ For the system to work smoothly, there should be no more than 200 channels per 1 topic.

How to enable Channels

Go to "Settings" in the topic where you'd like to include a new channel;
Select "Channels" in the right-hand menu;
Select "Add channel";

Paste a link to your desired channel in the pop-up window (see examples of those links below) and press "Enter";

Select your desired data collection time period for the new channel (the default setting is a month);
Press the + button to add the channel.

Examples of links for channel sources

Instagram

Owned business profiles (post feed with comments, profile mentions in other accounts, profile's stories) — https://www.instagram.com/teslamotors
Posts feed from Business or Creator pages — https://www.instagram.com/youscan.io/

💡Before including an Instagram channel, you first need to authorize a connected Facebook Page in YouScan.

Facebook

Public pages — https://www.facebook.com/essence
Groups — https://www.facebook.com/groups/tastycommunity
Users — https://www.facebook.com/TaylorSwift

Your company page (posts, comments, tagged feed)
Page of any company (posts and comments) —https://www.linkedin.com/company/nintendo/

💡Before adding a LinkedIn page, you need to authorize it in YouScan.

VK

Public profiles — https://vk.com/brunomars
Groups (along with the Discussion section) — https://vk.com/pepsi
User profiles — https://vk.com/id392562592

Twitter

While including a Twitter profile, https://twitter.com/YouScan_io, you get a choice of two streams:

All tweets from this user;
All @mentions of this user.

YouTube

Channel pages (monitoring videos and top-level comments of a specific channel) —https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrw9--KZPQJ0noalCiPAnAw
Individual videos (one-time upload of all top-level comments, along with threads for the selected time period) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELxg7r3zxbk

Public channels and chats — https://t.me/internationalgeographic