Media Monitoring & Clipping

Command Center & Clips

Monitor your race across 14 platforms and the press. Search debates, forums, town halls, and podcasts by word or speaker, and get a daily brief in your inbox.

What gets typed

Monitoring & the Briefing Room

Posts, comments and press across fourteen platforms, plus state and FEC data — caught while it is still small, and compiled into a brief you actually read.

One war room
What gets said

Clip Library

Debates, forums, town halls, podcasts and legislative floor sessions — yours and your opponent’s — transcribed with every speaker labeled, so a line said on tape is as findable as a tweet. Floor sessions are transcribed even where C-SPAN never published a transcript of its own, and the video master is kept alongside the audio.

Watch it work

One real workflow, running live — the Research Book covers the opponent, the War Room turns that research into content, and the Briefing Room rolls it into the daily plan. Click any card to look inside.

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Research Book — Cruz Oppo
Deep Research
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War Room — News Pitch
From Cruz research
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30-sec spot script
Ready for review
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Key insights + actions
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Data Search — FEC & Trades
Committees · donors · trades
Ready for review
Research Book — Cruz Oppo Running
Thought for 6s
Searched Congressional Record · 2,400 votes
Read 14 FEC filings & 9 stock trades
Built insider-trading timeline (Mar 24–25)
Synthesizing findings…
Research Book — focus the report on which angle?
Insider trading Shutdown Both
Ask a follow-up… Plan Run
Opposition research Save to Vault Live
Opposition Research — Sen. Ted Cruz
Insider Trading
Silent on White House pre-announcement bets — trending r/politics
Shutdown Complicity
Backed the concession demands; owns the funding crisis
Financial
9 trades flagged against oversight role
1 of 3 tasks
Verify committee timeline
Save to Vault
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The brief lands before you go looking

Get one email each morning with changes from overnight monitoring, recommended actions, and links to the supporting evidence.

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Civly Briefing Room
Morning Brief — overnight on your race
6:00 AM
What moved overnight
1,284 posts, clustered into 6 narrativesVolume up 3.1× on the funding fight, concentrated in two media markets.
What it means
The funding-crisis narrative is consolidating around your opponent, not you.It has not crossed into local TV yet, which is the window to get ahead of it.
Do this first
Hit shutdown complicity on social — the draft is already in the Studio.Second: pitch the insider-trading tie to press, ranked below it.
New on tape
2 new videos matched your standing asksOpponent’s channel, 41:18 — contradicts his floor speech from March. Clip is cut and ready.
Social Scoreboard
You 41 posts · 128K reactions  |  Opponent 17 · 44KPosts, reactions, shares and comments for each of you, on each platform, over both 24 hours and 7 days — plus each side’s loudest post of the week. Off unless you ask for it.
Open the full brief Listen — 4 min
You set what it watches The names, topics and channels it reports on, and the threshold that makes something worth your morning.
You pick who gets it It goes to whoever needs to act on it — not just whoever owns the login.
Alerts do not wait for morning The brief is the daily read. If something crosses your threshold at 11pm, that fires the moment it happens.

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The Spoken Half

Clip Library

Monitoring reads what gets written. Clip Library handles what gets said out loud — every debate, forum, town hall and podcast archived, transcribed with speaker labels, and searchable by the word, with the exact segment one click from your editor’s timeline.

Watch the clip side work

Type a phrase, land on the second it was said, download the clip — then let the library run on its own: followed channels arrive transcribed and AI-tagged every morning, and standing asks flag the moments that matter. Every tab below is clickable.

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Every tab is clickable
Candidate Cable interview · Mar 14 00:41:22

“…and I’ll say it again: we will never raise property taxes on seniors in this state…”

AI tagsTaxesSeniorsContradiction
IN 41:18
OUT 41:58
Moderator Primary debate · Feb 2 01:12:05

“…your record on property taxes says otherwise, and voters have noticed…”

AI tagsTaxesDebate
IN 1:11:58
OUT 1:12:31
Host Podcast · Jan 28 00:07:44

“…you voted to raise property taxes three times — walk me through that…”

AI tagsTaxesVoting record
IN 07:40
OUT 08:05
Followed channels checked daily, auto-transcribed
Opponent’s YouTube channelDaily · 4 new this week
Local station newscastDaily · 2 new this week
Statehouse floor feedDaily · 1 new this week
This morning’s arrivals
Morning newscast — Jul 22 18:40 min
Speaker-labeled ✓ AI tagsTaxesOur raceSchools
Opponent town hall — Jul 22 52:10 min
Speaker-labeled ✓ AI tagsVeteransAttack line
Standing asks the AI reviews every new video against these
Contradictions on taxes Attacks on our candidate Mentions of the bond measure
Flagged this morning
Flagged 08:44 Opponent’s channel — matches “Contradictions on taxes”

“…look, property taxes have to be on the table this year…”

Flagged 09:12 Local station — matches “Mentions of the bond measure”

“…the bond measure deserves a fair hearing before November…”

From Raw Footage to the Exact Clip

Upload a recording to get a searchable transcript with speaker labels. Find a phrase, jump to the moment, and download the clip for your editor.

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Load video from anywhere

Paste up to 20 links at once — YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, TikTok — or upload video and audio files in batches, up to 5 GB each. Every video is archived, so the clip survives even if the original is taken down.

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National TV, already running

Four national news channels are captured around the clock and transcribed straight into your library — nothing to set up, nothing to follow. Add your opponent’s channel or a local station’s feed and every new video lands the same way, transcribed, every day.

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Every word, with a name on it

Transcripts arrive with speakers separated and labeled. Name a speaker once and it applies across the video — so you can search not just what was said, but who said it.

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Search, jump, cut

A phrase search returns every moment it was spoken, across every video you have. Click a result and the player jumps to that second. Mark in and out, and download the segment as an editor-ready MP4.

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Flag moments automatically

Give the library a standing ask — a contradiction, an attack line, a topic — and the AI reviews every new video as it arrives, flagging the moments that match so you see them the same day they air.

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Build the finished video

Describe the video you want and it assembles from the moments you have saved, narrated in a voice of your choosing. The finished file lands in the library alongside the clips it was cut from, ready to download.

Proof

A Real Library, Built in a Day

The clearest way to show what Clip Library does is a build we ran for a competitive U.S. Senate race. The team needed years of an opponent’s media appearances — cable hits, floor speeches, his own channel’s uploads — searchable before a major policy fight. Clip Library ingested the full archive with speaker-labeled transcripts, and the war room was searching it the next morning.

340+Videos archived
1,800+Searchable moments
MinutesTranscription per video
MP4Editor-ready export
Found by phrase · cable hit

One search surfaced the exact 40 seconds an ad needed — from hundreds of hours of tape

“The enemy is inside the gates.”

Opponent’s own channel — archived, transcribed, and clipped in Clip Library

The line the ad was built around was said once, on one cable hit, months earlier. A phrase search found it instantly, the player jumped to the moment, and the editor had the MP4 the same hour — no scrubbing, no rewatching, no guessing which appearance it was.

A Library, a Feed, and a Standing Watch

Your archive, daily updates, and finished clips.

Library

Searchable video archive

Every video transcribed, speaker-labeled, and searchable by the word — organized in collections your whole team shares.

Search to clip in seconds

Clips

Editor-ready exports

Mark the segment and download the MP4 — ready for Premiere, ads, and social without a re-clipping step.

Direct MP4 download

Feeds

Followed channels

The channels you follow are checked daily and new videos arrive already transcribed and AI-tagged.

Auto-ingested daily

Watch

Flagged moments

Standing asks review every new video for the moments you told the library to watch for.

AI standing watch

Video

Finished videos, not just clips

Describe what you want and the saved moments assemble into one video, narrated in a voice of your choosing — downloadable from the library it was built in.

Compiled and narrated

Media Impact Readout

What the Appearance Actually Did

Booking the podcast is the easy part. A Media Impact Readout measures what came out of it — every clip cut from the appearance, who posted it, what the press did with it, and which sources were searched to find out. Every figure is read off the platform itself on a stated date. Nothing is estimated or modelled.

10.9×Clip views vs. the interview
4 of 6Clips cut by someone else
8Press pickups, six outlets
7Channels searched and named
Measured · a governor on a national podcast

The interview drew 64,603 views. The clips cut from it drew 701,714.

He went on the show to test a message. The moment that travelled was a 75-second aside about somebody else entirely — 480,656 views across two platforms, the single biggest item of the whole appearance. The clip the show cut on the message he actually came to make did about a seventh of that.

Four of the six clips were posted by channels with no connection to the show. All four attacked him; none were supportive. The largest of them out-drew the interview itself by nearly two to one, and outside cuts kept appearing for two weeks after the tape went up.

Counts read from each platform on one stated date, five months after the appearance

Clips

Every clip, and who cut it

Each clip named and linked, with its platform, the date it went up, its views and reactions, and whether the show cut it or somebody else did.

Attributed, not aggregated

Press

Pickups counted, never scored

Every article named, dated, and linked. Articles carry no likes or shares, so coverage is counted and named rather than given a number it doesn’t have.

Named outlets

Timeline

How long the tail ran

What appeared when — the same-day cut, the hostile one that landed within hours, the press catching up two days later, and the clip still being made two weeks on.

Dated, item by item

Method

Sources searched, including the empty ones

What was run on each channel and what each returned. Ten subreddits on two backends came back with nothing — that is in the readout as a result, not left out as a gap.

Every channel reported

It also says what it cannot count. No podcast platform publishes plays or downloads, and some platforms publish no counts at all — the readout names those items and leaves them uncounted instead of filling the hole with an estimate. What an appearance is worth is decided by which sixty seconds get cut and posted, and that choice is usually made by somebody other than the campaign.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Command Center & Clips? +
The campaign war room, covering both halves of what is being said about your race. Monitoring tracks what people write — posts, comments, and press across fourteen platforms, alongside state and FEC data. Clip Library handles what they say out loud — debates, forums, town halls, and podcasts, transcribed with every speaker labeled and searchable by the word. Both feed the same hub, the same alerts, and the same Studio that turns what you find into campaign-ready content.
What does it monitor? +
Fourteen social platforms, news and press coverage, podcast and radio appearances, and TV news — plus state and federal campaign-finance data. All sources are available in one place. You can bring your own research or use ours; either way everything it collects lands in the Research Vault, where you can store, organize, search, and query it in one place.
How do I hear about something before it becomes a news cycle? +
Monitoring watches volume and sentiment against your own baseline and alerts you when either one moves. You pick the threshold that fires the alert — volume only, volume plus sentiment, or everything. In the sample session above, a single post is caught, traced back to its origin, and clustered by theme while the mention count is still climbing.
Does it only tell me what happened, or help me respond? +
The Studio turns the finding into the deliverable. From the same signal it produces ad copy, social posts, press releases, meeting prep, audio briefings, and intelligence reports — all out of the same hub, without exporting anything to another tool.
What video sources can I load? +
Paste up to 20 links at once from YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, or TikTok, or batch-upload video and audio files up to 5 GB each. You can also follow channels — an opponent’s feed, a local station, a podcast — and new videos land in your library already transcribed, checked daily. Everything is archived, so a clip survives even if the original recording is taken down.
How does speaker labeling work? +
Transcripts are diarized — every voice in the room is separated automatically. Name a speaker once and the label applies across the video, so a search can find not just what was said but who said it, and a moderator’s words are never attributed to your opponent.
What do I get when I clip a moment? +
The clip you mark is the MP4 you download — set in and out points on the player and the exact segment exports ready for Premiere, ads, or social. No screen recording, no re-clipping, no watermarks. You can also stop there and let the library build the finished video: describe what you want, and the moments you have saved assemble into one narrated cut you can download.
Can it watch for new moments automatically? +
Yes. Follow a channel once and it is checked every day — new videos arrive already transcribed and speaker-labeled, with tags applied from your library’s shared vocabulary. Give the library a standing ask on top of that — a contradiction, an attack line, a topic — and the AI reviews every new video as it arrives, flagging matching moments so you see them the same day they air.
Can I search the archive, or only see live alerts? +
Both, on both halves. Mention Search covers the full text archive — every stored mention, searchable, rankable by reach, and exportable to CSV. On the video side, one phrase search runs across every video you have ever loaded, so a line said in a debate three years ago comes back as fast as a post from this morning.
Can I use Civly from Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini? +
Yes. Civly’s research tools connect to all three assistants, so a research book, a narrative probe or a campaign-finance question can be asked for without leaving the chat. Work that costs money still names the paying client and asks before it starts. The setup steps for each are on the connector documentation page.

Run the Race From One Room

Point us at your race — the platforms to watch, the opponent channels and local stations to follow, the filings to track. We will set up the monitoring, load the archive, and hand your team the search box. Ask for a walkthrough on the live sample library.

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