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 Does “Similar Articles” Mean?
Agility evaluates:
Headline text
Article body content
If both the headline and a significant portion of the content match, Agility determines the mentions are similar.
💡 Accuracy note
Since the August 26, 2021 update, articles with identical headlines are now recognized as similar 97% of the time. Mentions created before that date are ~13% less likely to be matched.
If you ever notice a mismatch or missing match, Support is always happy to investigate.
🔹 How to Show or Hide Similar Articles
a) Open the Similar Articles filter
Go to your Topic results
Click the Filter icon
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.
🔹 How the Similarity Engine Works
Agility compares:
The full headline
Enough matching content in the article body
Content across different outlets, media types, and providers
If both headline and body match sufficiently, the articles are grouped as similar.
This enables you to:
Reduce noise
Speed up review
Produce cleaner briefings and reports
If you ever notice mentions incorrectly grouped (or missed), please let us know — we’re always improving this feature.
📝 Support & Resources
Help Center: Monitoring
Need help? Chat with Support from your dashboard or email agilitysupport@agilitypr.com