About Pulse Index

Stay informed without watching everything.

Pulse Index follows the subjects that matter across YouTube, RSS and news feeds, websites, search trends and social media. It automates the monitoring, so you never miss an important update — and never have to sit through hours of content to find it.

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What is Pulse Index?

A monitoring platform that tracks keywords and topics everywhere the conversation happens — YouTube, RSS and news feeds, websites, search trends and social media. Whether you follow news, research, hobbies or brand mentions, Pulse Index does the watching and reading for you, so nothing important slips past.

It also builds company intelligence you won't find anywhere else, by connecting SEC filings, careers pages, layoff notices, certificate logs and trademark filings with the news: which promises companies keep, which products are about to launch, and which phrases are spreading before they become the story.

What we monitor

Every place the conversation happens.

Spoken, written, published, searched and posted — one platform watches them all and brings every match into a single feed.

YouTube

Search inside what's actually said in any video, down to the timestamp, and monitor channels for new uploads that mention you.

Transcripts · Channels

RSS & news feeds

Blogs, publications and news sites, searched by title and content. Add your own feeds or let Pulse Index discover them.

Blogs · Publications

Websites

The crawler scans up to 10 pages of any site for your keywords — once, or on a schedule for sites without a feed.

Crawler · Scheduled scans

Search trends

The SEO Topic Tracker follows how fast a topic is rising in Google search trends, by region, so you publish into the wave.

Google Trends · Velocity

Social media Rolling out

Mentions of your keywords and brand across the major social platforms, alongside everything else you track.

  • X / Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • TikTok

Global news sentiment

Web Pulse reads headlines from 300+ news sources worldwide and scores the mood around the topics you follow.

300+ sources

Share of voice

Benchmark your brand against a competitor and see how much of the conversation each of you owns.

Competitor benchmarking

SEC filings

New filings from US public companies, the themes they write about week by week, and the promises in their press releases and reports.

8-K · 10-K · 10-Q

Careers pages

Open roles at major public companies, read daily: which teams are hiring, in which cities, and every new posting.

Greenhouse · Lever · Ashby

Layoff notices

WARN layoff and closure notices from California, Texas and Washington, matched to the listed companies that filed them.

WARN Act · 3 states

Certificate logs & trademarks

New subdomains companies set up and new US trademark applications they file — often weeks before a launch.

CT logs · USPTO
Capabilities

What it can do.

Search video transcripts

Paste a YouTube URL and find your keywords inside the transcript, with timestamped links that jump straight to the moment. Search hours of video in seconds — ideal for research, fact-checking or finding a specific discussion.

Monitor YouTube channels

Subscribe to channels and get notified whenever a new video mentions your keywords. Choose how often to check, from every 30 minutes to daily.

Monitor RSS feeds

Track blogs, news sites and publications. Discover feeds automatically or add your own, each with its own keywords.

Website crawling

Scan up to 10 pages of any site for your keywords — once, or on a schedule for sites without a feed.

Unified notifications

Every finding lands in one list, linked to the source. Mark read, delete, or clear all at once.

Command Center analytics

Mention trends, top keywords, source activity and sentiment, with PDF and CSV report exports.

Web Pulse news analysis

Sentiment, keywords, categories and trending topics across headlines from 300+ news sources.

Flexible subscriptions

Pause and resume without losing settings. Edit keywords and intervals from one dashboard.

Search history

A full record of your video searches. Re-run past searches and revisit important content fast.

Multi-keyword monitoring

Comma-separate keywords to track related topics or brand variations together.

Company intelligence

Data only Pulse Index has.

Every source above is recorded daily and connected, so you can see what a company said, what it did, and what it's about to do.

Promise Ledger Premium

Dated promises companies make in press releases, 10-Ks and 10-Qs, videos and headlines — launches, store openings, hiring, “no more layoffs”, investment and climate targets — each with the exact quote and source. When a promise comes due, it's checked against layoff notices, careers pages and headlines, and marked kept, missed, overdue or unclear, always with the evidence. Each company gets a scorecard: kept 4 of 9, 2 overdue.

Launch Radar Premium

Three weak signals that mean little alone: new teams, skills or cities on a careers page, new subdomains in certificate logs, and new trademark applications. When the same name turns up in two or three, it's a triangulated lead. Once a headline announces the launch, the page shows how many days early the radar spotted it. Add the domains of companies you track, too.

Echo Detector Premium

Finds phrases spreading across outlets and creators: copied wire stories, repeated talking points and lines said on video. Paste any statement to see who said it first, who picked it up and how fast, including in your own client's feeds. Follow a phrase to get emailed about new pickups.

Before the Headline

Which signals (hiring freezes, layoff notices, SEC filings, search spikes, tone shifts) came before companies hit the front pages, how early, and how often they were wrong.

Data Studio Premium

Up to four series on one chart — your mentions, competitors in the news, Web Pulse mood, hiring, layoffs, filing themes. Save comparisons and export CSV or PDF.

Company Pulse

A page for every listed company: news coverage and tone, searches, filings, hiring, layoffs, promises, upcoming launches and phrases spreading about it.

SEC Filing Index

How often US public companies mention tariffs, AI, recession and other themes in their filings, week by week.

Hiring & Layoff Trackers

Open roles and hiring teams at major public companies, and every WARN notice with its monthly trend.

Headline Archive

Search every headline Web Pulse has collected by keyword, outlet, region, category, tone and date.

AI Pulse

Every major AI lab's latest model, what it costs, how often each lab ships, and the AI milestones that matter.

The Pulse Report

Free, shareable reports on news sentiment and where attention is moving.

Client workspaces Premium

Give each brand or client its own workspace, so monitors, alerts, followed phrases, watched domains, saved comparisons and the weekly brief never mix. Switch between them from the header.

How it works

From a keyword to an answer.

Four stages, running quietly in the background while you get on with your day.

  1. 01

    Search or subscribe

    Manual search: paste any YouTube URL and your keywords to search the transcript instantly. Results show the exact timestamps where each keyword appears.

    Subscriptions: for ongoing monitoring, add a YouTube channel, RSS feed, website or search topic, enter comma-separated keywords, and pick a check interval.

  2. 02

    Automatic monitoring

    Pulse Index checks every active subscription on your schedule: new videos have their transcripts scanned, new articles are searched by title and content, website subscriptions crawl the pages you chose, and tracked topics are measured against live search trends.

    Intelligent scheduling avoids overloading sources. Intervals run from every 30 minutes to daily, or any custom interval you set.

  3. 03

    Get notified

    Matches arrive in your notification center with everything you need to act:

    • YouTube: clickable timestamps, video title, channel and a transcript snippet around the match.
    • RSS: article title, publication, date and a link to the full article.
    • Websites: page URL, page title and the content where your keyword was found.
    • Companies you watch: new SEC filings, promises that come due, are kept or are missed, and likely launches when their signals line up.
    • Followed phrases: an email when new outlets pick up a phrase you're tracking.
  4. 04

    Stay informed & analyze

    The Command Center turns your findings into insight:

    • Mention volume trends over 7 and 30 days.
    • Top keywords and the channels and feeds that mention them most.
    • Sentiment analysis across your monitored sources.
    • PDF and CSV reports for presentations and record-keeping.

    Web Pulse adds the wider view: global news sentiment around the topics you follow.

Who it's for

For anyone who needs to stay informed.

Researchers & academics

Follow publications, discussions and talks in your field without checking dozens of sources by hand.

  • Monitor academic channels and publications
  • Track specific research topics
  • Find relevant conference talks
  • Stay updated on peer research

Journalists & content creators

Watch news sources, competitor channels and event coverage. Research faster and stay ahead of your beat.

  • Monitor many news sources at once
  • Get alerts on breaking stories
  • Search video transcripts for quotes
  • Never miss a story in your area

Businesses & marketers

Keep an eye on brand mentions, industry trends and competitors. Hear customer feedback and spot opportunities.

  • Track brand mentions and reputation
  • Monitor competitor content and strategy
  • Discover industry trends and openings
  • Follow customer feedback and discussion

Hobbyists & enthusiasts

Follow gaming, cooking, tech reviews or any niche without the overload — only the content that matters.

  • Filter through content noise
  • Track specific topics in your hobbies
  • Discover new creators in your niche
  • Never miss an important update

Influencers & creators

See who's talking about you across YouTube and blogs, join the conversation and find collaborations.

  • Track name and brand mentions in real time
  • Engage with discussions about your content
  • Find collaboration opportunities
  • Monitor competitor channels and trends

Students & educators

Subscribe to educational channels, track course topics and find supplementary material automatically.

  • Find relevant educational content quickly
  • Track course topics across channels
  • Discover supplementary materials
  • Stay current on your subject
On the roadmap

See through the noise.

What we're building next for Pulse Index.

Coming soon

Pulse Score™

Our signature metric answers one question: is this topic heating up or cooling down? It blends velocity, sentiment delta, authority weighting and volume anomaly into a single number.

Coming soon

Narrative detection

AI clusters coverage into emerging narratives, competing frames and talking points — for example, innovation suppression versus consumer safety in AI regulation.

Coming soon

Sentiment over time

Sentiment trajectories and inflection points, correlated to real-world events.

Coming soon

Competitor radar

Track competitors' products, executives and messaging shifts.

Coming soon

Geo-sentiment intelligence

Heatmaps by region and narrative spread — ideal for politics, finance and defense.

Coming soon

Historical replay

Rewind any topic and watch how its narrative evolved.

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