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How to Generate Instant Media Reporting with Dashboard Templates

Written by Streem | Apr 7, 2026 6:04:34 AM

At Streem, we’re always looking for ways to help PR and communications professionals spend less time configuring tools and more time acting on what the data is telling them. As a media team working to help other media teams, we know that reporting is the most time-consuming part of the job. That’s why we’ve brought Dashboard Templates to Instant Insights.

Instead of manually building your dashboards chart by chart, you can now analyse coverage, engagement, and campaign performance instantly with pre-built templates curated for the most common reporting needs.

 

Why We Built Dashboard Templates 

When we built the Instant Insights platform, our goal was to create a centralised hub for media reporting that had flexible configuration and advanced filtering. By introducing Dashboard Templates, we’re optimising its workflows for busy teams that need the option to forego customisation for quick turnarounds.

We know that reporting needs differ between organisations, but the workflows behind them are often the same.

Whether you’re tracking earned media coverage for a specific campaign or benchmarking your brand against competitors, the questions being asked and the charts needed to answer them tend to follow a familiar pattern.

Dashboard Templates are our response to that reality. Rather than asking users to start from scratch every time, we’ve distilled the most common reporting use cases into a set of smart, pre-built templates.

The result is faster setup, immediate access to meaningful insights, and more time for analysis that actually moves the needle.

Want to find out how our Instant Insights platform can work for your specific needs? Book a demo with our team.

 

Our Suite of Dashboard Templates 

 

Earned Media Insights 

A complete snapshot of your earned media coverage, measuring the key metrics that demonstrate the impact and breadth of your mentions. Track volume trends, Share of Voice, top publications, and more. 

Ideal for communications teams who need to report regularly on media performance, whether that's a weekly internal update, monthly board report, or post-campaign wrap. This template gives you a single, structured view of how your earned media coverage is tracking, ready to share with stakeholders the moment you create it.

Charts include: Coverage Volume & Potential Audience Reach Timeline, Top Articles by Reach, Domain Authority

 

Brand Benchmark

Compare and benchmark earned media metrics against your competitors to see how you stack up. Track trends over time and uncover narratives driving change and impact.

This template is useful for strategic planning, new business pitches, category monitoring, or simply keeping leadership informed on where you stand in your industry. When a competitor suddenly spikes in coverage, this template helps you understand why and whether it's something you need to respond to. 

Charts include: Share of Voice Timeline for Mentions, Sentiment Benchmark, Share of Voice for Social Shares 

 

Outreach Campaign Performance

Measure the effectiveness of media outreach and its translation into earned media coverage.

Rather than your team having to make estimations, this template gives you a clear timeline of outreach activities in comparison to mention volume and other key metrics, so they can see what is and isn't working. 

Use it to justify spending and demonstrate ROI, or after a campaign wraps, to identify the most successful outlets, journalists, and angles. 

Charts include: Media Outreach & Coverage Timeline, Top Engaged Contacts, Facebook Engagement Metric

 

Social Insights

Track audience engagement, trending themes, and sentiment across millions of conversations on the world's leading social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, LinkedIn, and millions of forums and blogs.

Great for teams monitoring emerging trends and brand reputation, launching new products, or operating in environments where conversation shifts quickly. Instead of manually scanning feeds and platforms, get a structured, analytical view of what the audience is saying.

Charts include: Mentions by Platform, Coverage Volume Timeline, Top Tweets, Top Facebook Pages

 

Earned + Social Insights

Connect your traditional earned media coverage with social conversations to get a holistic picture of the overarching, cross-channel narrative. Understand how stories have jumped from traditional to social, or from social to traditional, as well as where and how the conversation has travelled beyond its source publication.

Charts include: Earned vs Social Media, Social Insights Summary, Key Messages, Leading Hashtags, Sentiment Benchmark

 

Unified Media Campaign

When you're dealing with media data across earned, social, and outreach, it can be difficult to keep track of "overall" campaign performance, especially when you're using three different tools. This all-in-one template unifies these metrics into one view, providing a comprehensive snapshot of end-to-end campaign insights across media channels.

Charts include: Mention Stream Insights Summary, Top Articles by Reach and AVE, Geographic Spread by City, Total Social Shares

 

Social Campaign Performance

Analyse the engagement and conversations surrounding your social media campaign with charts and metrics that highlight your owned social posts. Identify your top-performing posts and platforms, key messages driving conversation around your brand or a specific campaign, and connect these insights back to website traffic for post-campaign reporting. 

Charts include: Top Performing Post, Total Social Engage Performance, Sentiment Timeline, Mentions & Website Traffic Timeline

 

Built to Be Customised

Our Dashboard Templates can be used as your endpoint or starting point. Once created, every dashboard remains fully editable. Easily refine and customise them as required, giving you the flexibility to remove what’s not needed or add more detail while saving valuable time.

 

What this Means for Your Workflow

For PR and comms professionals under deadline pressure, being able to have a pre-built dashboard ready in seconds means less manual work required to pull insights for campaign or ongoing reporting, and more time spared for interpretation and actioning follow-up strategy.

Templates are also designed to grow with your Streem subscription. Users with access to Social or Outreach products will unlock templates built specifically for those capabilities, giving you purpose-built reporting as you expand your use of the platform.

 

Get Your Reporting Done Faster

Dashboard Templates are available now within Instant Insights. If you already have access to Streem, you’ll find them the next time you go to create a new dashboard.

If you’re not yet using Streem, book a demo with our team to see how Instant Insights and the full Streem platform can transform the way you monitor, analyse, and report on media coverage.