We Look for Your Name in the Press So You Do Not Have To
There is a new Mentions panel in your dashboard. We search for coverage of you across news, reviews, blogs, podcasts and video, and put what we find in front of you.
Why this exists
Actors are written about more than they realize and find out about it less than they should. A regional paper reviews a show and the review is never seen by the person in it. A podcast mentions a performance. A festival writes up a screening. Every one of those is a legitimate item for a press page, and almost all of them are missed because nobody was looking.
Setting up alerts yourself is possible and most people do not do it, or do it once and stop reading the emails.
How the matching works
We search on your name plus signals from your own profile: your credits, your training, your location, your agency. That combination is what stops a search for a common name returning three hundred unrelated people.
Results are scored, and anything low confidence is presented as a suggestion rather than a match. You confirm or dismiss, and dismissals teach the matching for next time.
What it will not catch
Print with no online edition. Anything behind a hard paywall. Broadcast that leaves no text trace. Coverage that describes you without naming you, which happens in ensemble reviews more than anybody would like.
So it is a net, not a guarantee. It finds a great deal more than nothing, which is the honest comparison, since nothing is what most actors currently have.
How often
Continuously in the background, with results collected rather than pushed at you. You can have an email digest or leave it in the dashboard only, set in notification preferences.
What to do with a find
Anything worth keeping becomes a press item in one click, covered in turn a mention into a press item. Outlet logos are added automatically as described in default logos.
Also worth doing with a find: thanking the writer. It is the cheapest piece of relationship building available and almost nobody does it. Our piece on the art of networking makes the wider case.
Create your free actor website and we will start looking.
