Research eats the morning
Twenty tabs, four news apps and a trends page. By the time you have decided what to cover, the window on the best story has already narrowed and the edit has not started.
New Multi-channel research workspaces
Turn breaking news into your next winning video
VidiScoop watches the last 24 hours of news for every channel you run, ranks the stories actually worth covering, and hands you the titles, description, tags and thumbnail brief to publish while the story is still climbing.
Free plan, no credit card. Works without an AI key — add one only if you want it sharper.
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Stories worth covering
Studio confirms the sequel after months of rumours8 outlets · 24m old
92Must-coverRegulator opens inquiry into streaming bundles5 outlets · 1h old
84StrongAwards shortlist leaks a day early4 outlets · 2h old
76StrongAnalysts revise the quarterly forecast3 outlets · 3h old
61Worth a look↗
18 stories rankedfrom the last 24 hours
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Package ready5 titles · tags · thumbnail brief
24 hoursThe scan window, so nothing you see is yesterday’s news
5 signalsRelevance, coverage, freshness, trend and source authority
4 AI enginesGemini, Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter — or none at all
1 minuteFrom opening the app to a ranked list of what to cover
Reads the outlets your audience already trusts
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The 6am problemYou do not have a content problem.
You do not have a content problem.
You have a decision problem.
There are forty things you could cover this morning. Thirty-five of them are noise, three were already covered by a bigger channel two hours ago, and the two that matter are buried under aggregator spam. Picking wrong costs you the whole day.
Trending ≠ right for you
Generic trend lists rank the whole internet, not your channel. A story can be enormous and still be completely wrong for the audience you spent two years building.
Packaging is the bottleneck
The video is cut and you are still staring at the title field. The upload that gets a rushed title and five lazy tags is the upload that underperforms.
One workspace
From first signal to finished package
Everything between “something happened” and “the video is live” lives in one place, scoped to the specific channel you are planning for.
Every story, scored for your channel
Reports of the same event from twelve outlets collapse into a single story, then that story is scored 0–100 on five signals and given a verdict: must-cover, strong, worth a look, or weak. You read a ranked list, not a firehose.
Explore the scoring enginePackages, not prompts
Five title options, a full description, tags, hashtags and three thumbnail briefs — generated from the story and your channel positioning, then saved permanently.
Every channel, kept separate
Own niche, keywords, language, region, sources and score threshold per channel. One account, unlimited workspaces, no cross-contamination between them.
Nothing covered twice
Once you package a story, later scans that resurface the same news with nothing new move to “Already covered” — unless the story genuinely develops, which sends it back.
Hand it to your editor
Export saved packages as CSV or Markdown and drop them straight into a production sheet, a Notion board or your writer’s brief.
Why it ranks what it ranks
A score you can argue with
Nothing is a black box. Every story shows the five numbers behind its score, so when the tool says must-cover you can see exactly why — and overrule it when you disagree.
| Signal | Weight | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Relevance | 40% | How well the story matches your niche and keywords — with rare keywords weighted far above generic ones. |
| Coverage | 28% | How many independent outlets are running it. One outlet is a tip. Five or more means it is breaking wide. |
| Freshness | 16% | How old the story is, decaying exponentially across the scan window so a 40-minute lead still counts. |
| Trend | 8% | Whether the topic is currently climbing in Google Trends for your region. |
| Authority | 8% | How much weight the reporting outlet carries, so a wire service outranks an aggregator blog. |
Listicles, opinion columns and “every X ranked” headlines are demoted on purpose — a news channel needs events, not commentary. See the full workflow
How it works
Three steps, about a minute
Describe the channel
Write your niche in one plain sentence — “Hollywood casting news, breakups and red carpet drama” — add a handful of specific keywords, then pick a language, region and the news sections you care about. That sentence becomes your search.
Scan the last 24 hours
One button pulls Google News search and topic feeds, curated outlet feeds for your sections and region, regional Google Trends and your own RSS feeds, deduplicates everything into distinct stories and ranks them for this channel.
Package and publish
Open the top story, check the signals, and generate the package — or select ten stories and generate them in bulk. Everything saves permanently, so tomorrow’s scan knows what you already covered.
Built for
Any channel where speed decides the winner
News channels
Daily briefs and breaking coverage where being 90 minutes early is the entire advantage.
Entertainment
Celebrity, film and streaming news, where five outlets running it means it is real.
Tech & AI
Launches, funding and policy — separated from the endless stream of speculation posts.
Sports
Transfers, injuries and results, ranked by how widely they are actually being reported.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you add channels.
The free plan is a real plan, not a trial: one channel, one scan a day, full scoring and packaging. Paid plans exist for people running several channels at once.
Questions
Everything people ask first
What does VidiScoop actually do?
It reads the last 24 hours of news from Google News, curated outlet feeds, Google Trends and any RSS feeds you add, clusters duplicate reports of the same event into one story, scores every story against the specific channel you are planning for, and then writes a publish-ready package for the ones worth covering: titles, a description, tags, hashtags and thumbnail briefs.
Do I need an OpenAI or Gemini API key to use it?
No. The built-in engine handles clustering, scoring and template-based packaging without any API key. Adding a key from Gemini, Claude, OpenAI or OpenRouter improves two things: the model re-reads each story in your channel’s context to sharpen the ranking, and the titles and descriptions get properly written instead of templated. Gemini has a free tier that is enough to start.
Which niches does it work for?
Any niche where the trigger to publish is something that happened. News, entertainment and celebrity, technology, sports, business and finance, gaming and politics all work well. You describe the niche in plain language and that description becomes the search behind your scans, so it is not limited to a fixed list of categories.
Can I run more than one channel?
Yes, and that is the point. Every channel gets its own niche, keywords, language, region, source sections and score threshold, and each one is scanned and ranked separately. Switching channels switches the entire workspace, so a story that is a must-cover for one channel can be correctly ignored by another.
Does it support languages other than English?
Yes. Each channel picks its own language and region — English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Indonesian, Bengali, Turkish, Russian, Japanese and Korean are all supported, across seventeen regional editions.
Where is my data stored?
In your own database. Every account has a private workspace, ownership is checked on every request, and provider API keys are kept server-side and never sent to the browser. See the security page for the full detail.
More answers on the full FAQ page.
Your next story is already breaking
Find it first. Cover it fast.
Set up a channel, run one scan, and see what you would have missed this morning.
No credit card required · Your first ranked scan takes about a minute