Agility collects content from multiple monitoring providers to ensure your Topic results are as complete as possible. While duplicate online articles are automatically de-duplicated before displaying, some articles may still appear multiple times if:
The same story is republished by different outlets
A publication republishes an article with a new timestamp
Multiple providers supply the same content package
To help you manage this, Agility allows you to group, nest, or hide articles with matching or highly similar content.
🔹 What Are Similar Articles?
Similar articles are online mentions that share substantially the same headline and article content.
Examples include:
The same story republished by multiple news outlets.
A newswire article republished across several websites.
The same article published more than once by an outlet.
🔹 How to Show or Hide Similar Articles
a) Open the Similar Articles filter
Go to your Topic results
Click the Filter icon
3. Select Similar from the filter list
b) Group similar articles together
To group identical or near-identical online articles:
Set Show = ON
Toggle Group = ON
Click Apply
This will nest similar articles under a single instance, helping you avoid reviewing the same story multiple times.
c) Hide duplicate or near-duplicate articles
Select Hide to remove similar online mentions from your results entirely.
The newest or most recent publication date is kept
All other similar articles are hidden
Does not apply to print content
🔹 Apply Similar Article Settings at Topic Setup
You can also hide similar mentions automatically when building or editing a Topic:
In the Topic Setup screen
Open the right-hand panel
Enable Hide Similar Mentions
This applies de-duplication at the search level, so only one version of each story appears from the start.
🔹 Why Am I Still Seeing Duplicate Articles?
If Hide Similar is already enabled but duplicate articles still appear, it does not necessarily mean something is wrong.
Some articles cannot be identified as similar because they differ enough in their headline or content that Agility does not consider them a match.
If you believe articles should have been identified as similar but were not, please contact Support so we can investigate.
🔹 Can I Delete an Article From My Topic Results?
No.
Topic results show every mention that matches your Topic and individual mentions cannot be deleted from those results.
If you're preparing reports or want to work with a curated set of coverage, save the relevant mentions to Media Monitoring → Saved Coverage / Folders (and organize them with folders or tags if needed). Reporting from saved coverage gives you full control over which mentions are included.
📝 Need Help?
If you believe duplicate articles should have been identified as similar, or similar articles appear to be grouped incorrectly, chat with Support from within Agility or email agilitysupport@agilitypr.com.