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Trend Discovery

Find timely topics for your show from your RSS feeds and on-demand searches, then turn a trend alert into an idea, script, post or campaign.

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Trend Discovery helps you spot topics worth talking about while they are still fresh, and turn them into content. In Convia Pro it lives under In Motion → Trend Monitor in the launcher, which has two pages: Trend Monitor, where trends arrive as alerts you act on, and Feed Manager, where you choose the RSS feeds Convia reads for you.

Trend Monitor and Feed Manager are part of Trend Rider, which is plan-gated. If Trend Monitor is missing from the launcher, or the page says Trend Rider isn't enabled, your plan does not include it. See Plans and billing.

Trends reach Trend Monitor in two ways.

Source How it works Cost
Your RSS feeds Once a day, Convia reads the active feeds in Feed Manager, picks out topics relevant to your brand, and leaves them as trend alerts, each with a suggested campaign The daily run is free. Refresh from RSS checks your feeds straight away for 10 credits
Discover Trends You enter up to 5 topics and Convia searches recent sources for what is trending on them, using your brand settings and recent episodes to judge relevance. Each search saves its results as alerts 15 credits for 1 topic, 25 for 2 to 3 topics, 35 for 4 to 5 topics

Trends from your feeds come from the feeds you follow, not from the whole web. Choose feeds that cover your industry, and the alerts follow.

Set up your feeds in Feed Manager

  1. Go to In Motion → Trend Monitor → Feed Manager.
  2. Click Add Feed, or add one from the suggested feeds, grouped by topic such as Podcasting Industry or Marketing & Business.
  3. Enter a Source name and the feed's URL, then click Test to check that the feed is valid.
  4. Optionally add Keywords. When a feed has keywords, only items that mention one of them are considered.
  5. Click Add Feed. The feed appears under Active Feeds.

The feed list shows each feed's status (Healthy, Warning or Error), its keywords, an Active switch and when it was Last Checked. Switch a feed off to stop reading it without deleting it.

  1. Go to In Motion → Trend Monitor and click Discover Trends.
  2. Type a topic or keyword into Add Topic or Keyword, for example "podcast growth", and add it. Add up to 5 topics. Suggestions appear under Your Topics and From Recent Episodes; click one to add it.
  3. Check the cost shown for the number of topics, then start the search.
  4. When it finishes, the new trends appear as alerts on the Active Alerts tab.

If you run out of credits on the Trends pages, Convia offers to buy more or upgrade.

Read a trend alert

Each alert on the Active Alerts tab shows:

Field Meaning
Topic What is trending
Type Opportunity, Competitive or Informational
Urgency High Urgency, Medium Urgency or Low Urgency: how quickly you should act
Source Where the trend was found
AI Campaign Brief A suggested campaign: a Suggested Name, a Description and Keywords
Matching Content Your episodes that relate to the trend, when there are any
Relevance How relevant the trend is to your brand, as a percentage, based on your brand settings
Search Volume, Related Content Shown when available. Related Content counts the content you have already made from the trend

Use the filters above the tabs to narrow alerts by Urgency, Source and Min Relevance. A Live marker beside the page title means there are active alerts.

Act on a trend alert

Click Create Campaign on an alert, or open its menu for the other actions.

Action What it creates Credits
Quick Idea (Basic) Saves the trend as an idea to develop later, with the trend's details in its notes Free
Create Idea (AI) A full idea with a title, a description of angles to take, research notes, suggested tags and a priority 10
Create Script (AI) A production-ready script. Pick a Script Type: Video Script, Podcast Episode, Short-Form Video or Presentation/Webinar 15
Create Campaign Opens the campaign builder with the trend loaded, to build a full campaign from it Depends on what you generate
Dismiss Moves the alert to the Dismissed tab and asks for a reason Free

Ideas and scripts made from a trend link back to it and appear under In Motion → Ideas and In Motion → Scripts. Everything the AI options create lands as a draft you review before anything is scheduled.

The Trending Topics tab shows every topic Convia has found, from the last 14 days by default. Turn on Show expired to see older ones. Sort by Relevance, Newest or Oldest, and click a source chip to filter.

Open a topic card to see its relevance, search volume, related content and a View Source link, plus Quick Actions:

  • Create Idea saves the topic as an idea, free.
  • Create Script writes a script with AI, at the script cost above.
  • Create Post creates a draft post on the platform you pick, starting from the topic's text, and opens your posts. It does not use AI.

Restore a dismissed alert

Dismissed alerts and topics move to the Dismissed tab, with the reason you gave. Click Restore to bring one back.

A trend automation can turn the freshest trend from your feeds into a draft post every day. The drafts wait for a person before anything goes out. See Content Automations.