Search helps marketing managers, social media managers, brand analysts, and competitive intelligence teams find and analyze video content across Video Intelligence. Use Search to explore collected video data, investigate conversations, validate trends, and identify relevant content using keywords, Boolean operators, and advanced filters.

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Unlike Global Volume Search, which estimates the size of a public conversation, Search allows you to analyze videos that have already been collected and processed by Video Intelligence.

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Use Search when you want to:

• Investigate specific topics or conversations

• Analyze brand, competitor, or campaign activity

• Discover creators and content trends

• Explore historical and current video data

• Refine results using advanced filters

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Before You Begin

To use Search, you must have access to Video Intelligence and the appropriate permissions for your workspace.

Search analyzes content that has already been processed and indexed within Video Intelligence.

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For estimating the overall size of a conversation before creating a dashboard, use Global Volume Search.

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Open Search

To access Search:

1. Open Video Intelligence.

2. From the left navigation menu, select Search. The Search page opens in Video View by default.

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3. Enter a search query to begin exploring video content.

4. You can use the following options to enter your keywords and configure filters.

   • Search for Content

   • Switch between Views

   • Select Platforms

   • Select a Date Range

   • Filter by Content Source

   • Filter Sponsored Content

   • Use Advanced Filters

   • Use Boolean Search Options

   • Search for Exact Phrases

   • Use Wildcards

5. Review the results to confirm they match the intended conversation or topic.

6. Select Save Search.

7. Enter a descriptive name. Save the search.

   The search is added to your Saved Searches list and can be accessed at any time.

Search for Content

Enter one or more keywords in the search bar to find relevant videos.

You can search for:

• Brands
• Products
• Campaign names
• Topics
• Hashtags
• Phrases
• Creator-related conversations

For example: running shoes OR sneakers NOT sandals

This query returns videos containing running shoes or sneakers while excluding content related to sandals.

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Switch Between Views

Search provides two ways to view results.

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You can switch between views without rerunning your search.

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Select Platforms

By default, Search includes all supported platforms.

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You can filter results by:

• TikTok
• Instagram
• YouTube
• YouTube Shorts

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Platform filters help you focus on specific channels and compare how conversations differ across platforms.

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Select a Date Range

Use the date filter to control the time period included in your search.

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Available options include:

Preset Ranges

• Last 7 days
• Last 30 days
• Last 90 days
• Month to Date
• Previous Month
• Year to Date
• Previous Year

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Custom Date Range

Select a custom date range to investigate specific events, campaigns, or historical conversations.

Historical data availability depends on platform coverage and collection availability.

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Filter by Content Source

The Source filter determines where Video Intelligence looks for matching keywords within a video.

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For example, selecting Transcription returns videos where the search term is spoken within the video audio.This capability helps you identify conversations that may not appear in captions or hashtags.

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Filter Sponsored Content

Use the sponsorship filter to control whether sponsored content is included in results.

Options include:

• All videos
• Sponsored videos only
• Exclude sponsored videos

This filter can help compare paid and organic content performance.

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Use Advanced Filters

The Filters panel provides additional controls for refining results. Click the All Filters button. The Filters panel opens on the right side of the screen.

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Dashboard Filter

Limit results to content collected within a specific dashboard.

This is useful when you want to investigate conversations within an existing monitoring program.

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View Count Filter

Filter results using engagement thresholds.

For example:

• Greater than 1,000 views
• Greater than 10,000 views
• Greater than 100,000 views

You can also enter custom values.

Region Filter

Include or exclude specific geographic regions to focus your analysis.

Language Filter

Filter results by:

• Spoken language
• Caption language

You can select one or multiple languages.

Creator Filter

Include or exclude content from specific creators.

Use this filter to:

• Focus on key creators
• Remove competitor content
• Analyze influencer activity

Post URL Filter

Analyze up to 25 specific video URLs within a single search.

This option is useful for researching known videos or campaigns.

Spam Filter

Exclude content identified as potential spam to improve result quality.

Sentiment Filter

Filter content based on available sentiment and emotional signals.

Reset Filters

Remove all filters and return to the default search configuration.

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Use Boolean Search Operators

Boolean operators help control how keywords are matched.

OR

Use OR to broaden results.

Results include videos containing any of the specified terms.

Example

Nike OR Reebok OR sneakers

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Returns videos containing one or more of the specified terms.

AND

Use AND to narrow results.

Results must contain all specified terms.

Example

Nike AND running AND shoes

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Returns only videos containing all three terms.

NOT

Use NOT to exclude unwanted results.

Example

running shoes NOT sandals

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Returns results about running shoes while excluding videos that mention sandals.

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​Search for Exact Phrases

Use quotation marks to search for an exact phrase.

Example

"hello kitty"

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Only results containing the complete phrase are returned.

Phrase searching is useful for:

• Campaign slogans

• Brand taglines

• Product names

• Common expressions

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Use Wildcards

Use the asterisk (*) wildcard to broaden matching behavior.

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Wildcard searches can help uncover additional variations of a term.

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Understand Search Results

Search results provide both content-level and engagement information.

Depending on your filters, you may see:

• Matching videos
• Video thumbnails
• Views
• Likes
• Comments
• Platform information
• Publication dates
• Creator details

Select any video to review additional information and analysis.

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For broader patterns and trends, switch to Insights View.

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Best Practices

To improve search quality and discover relevant content more efficiently:

• Start with broad keywords and refine them gradually.
• Use Boolean operators to improve relevance.
• Apply source filters to focus on spoken content, on-screen text, captions, or visual elements.
• Use creator and region filters to reduce unrelated results.
• Apply view count thresholds to identify high-performing content.
• Exclude spam when analyzing large result sets.
• Search within specific dashboards when investigating ongoing monitoring programs.
• Save important videos to Collections for future analysis.

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