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Understanding Social Listening Analytics

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Once you’ve created one or more Social Topics — or organised them into a Theme — you can begin exploring your analytics. To access analytics, open the Social module and click the eye icon under your chosen Theme.

Social Listening Analytics is divided into four main views:

  • Summary

  • Sentiment

  • Engagement

  • Trends

Below is a breakdown of what each view offers and how you can use it to understand your social performance.


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🔹 Summary View

The Summary tab provides a high-level snapshot of:

  • Total Posts

  • Impressions

  • Engagements

These metrics combine all Social Topics within your selected Theme.

You can refine this view using filters such as:

  • Keywords

  • Handles

  • Languages

  • Engagement metrics

  • Custom date ranges

You’ll also see trend comparisons against the previous period. Each network is represented visually, with inner rings showing the previous period’s data.

All charts in this view can be exported.


🔹 Topic-Level and Network-Level Insights

Every topic within the Theme is represented individually, allowing you to:

  • Compare how each topic is performing

  • Click into a single topic to isolate its data

  • View metrics for a specific network (e.g., Instagram, X/Twitter, YouTube)

Example:


When isolating Instagram, you may see that impressions and engagement peaks follow spikes in post volume, helping you identify when conversations are most active.

You can also review top posts from each topic based on:

  • Impressions

  • Engagement

  • Network

This helps pinpoint which content is driving performance.


🔹 Sentiment Analysis

The Sentiment tab shows the distribution of positive, negative, neutral, or mixed sentiment across all social networks in your Theme.

You can:

  • Filter top posts by sentiment (e.g., top negative posts by engagement)

  • Identify which hashtags or handles appear most often in positive vs. negative posts

  • Compare sentiment patterns across networks or within a single topic


🔹 Engagement Analysis

The Engagement tab breaks down social engagement into Agility’s three categories:

  • Applause (likes/reactions)

  • Conversation (comments/replies)

  • Amplification (shares/retweets)

You’ll see:

  • Engagement totals

  • Engagement rates (interaction relative to audience size)

  • Comparisons between current and previous time periods

As with other sections, you can isolate by network to see how engagement behaviour differs across Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, etc.

Top posts, hashtags, and handles can also be viewed through an engagement lens.


🔹 Trends View

The Trends tab highlights:

  • Top posts by impressions, engagements, or volume

  • Most-used hashtags and handles

  • Hashtags and handles trending due to high visibility

Trending elements are determined by posts that receive the highest impressions — meaning they are being seen by the largest potential audience.


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