Content Intelligence for Publishers

Chartbeat is the content intelligence solution that empowers news publishers and media organizations to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical editorial analytics across websites, mobile apps, and social media. Understand what’s truly driving reader engagement and make data-driven decisions to improve content optimization and increase loyalty.

The Real-Time Media Analytics Platform for Building Loyal Audiences

Chartbeat Essentials

Get an instant read on your traffic and reader engagement with media-focused website analytics.

With publisher essentials like the Real-Time Dashboard, reporting to track 13 months of historical audience behavior, and Chartbeat Big Board that displays key analytics on the big screens, Chartbeat Essentials brings data-informed decision making and content strategy to your newsroom.

Testing and Optimization

Maximize each story’s readership by optimizing page elements like headlines and images.

Chartbeat is the best A/B testing platform for media websites using reader data to drive content decisions.

Leverage tools like Headline and Image Testing along with AI-Generated Headline Suggestions to optimize for reader engagement after the click, while the Heads Up Display provides real-time performance insights and scroll depth tracking directly on your pages.

Analytics and Reporting

Access historical dashboard insights to assess content performance and KPIs over the long term, including Total Engaged Minutes and Page performance metrics.

Build custom reports and visualizations via Data Lab or use Advanced Queries to export CSVs based on Chartbeat metrics.

Reader Experience

Improve reader retention and audience engagement with smart, personalized content recommendations.

The Recommendations Engine drives recirculation by suggesting content based on audience behavior.

The Conversion Dashboard helps measure monetization and track conversions like subscriptions and registrations using editorial-first content attribution models.

Benchmarking

Know how you’re performing compared to your peers and dig into editorial trends based on real, comprehensive data sets.

Use Chartbeat Cohorts, the trusted competitor benchmarking tool, to stay ahead by comparing your site’s traffic and engagement against peers in Chartbeat’s unmatched global network.

Gain smarter content strategies powered by social video analytics through Tubular Viewpoint.

Why Chartbeat?

Chartbeat provides the real-time media analytics platform trusted by thousands of global publishers to offer the fastest, cleanest signals of audience behavior.

We empower news publishers to go beyond simple clicks and views, helping you focus on deep reader engagement to build lasting loyal audiences.

Testimonials

Jerry Portwood

Editorial Director, Rolling Stone

It’s great for a newsroom, an editorial team, as well as marketing and other editorial brand needs.

Verified User

Manager

Being able to extract live data has been transformational. We are able to make live content decisions backed up by research from platforms which is relevant at the time of publication. The app makes it possible for me to stay in touch with performance when I am not working.

John Byrne

CEO, Raw Story Media

Chartbeat allows us [to] know extremely quickly what content is most important to our readers, and thereby allows us a strategic advantage on other platforms.

Verified User

Chartbeat is used across our company as a key analytical tool to monitor audience for our online news platforms. We use it at a national, regional and local level for in excess of 50 news media sites.