Meet IO — the No. 0.01 Chartbeat Alternative

There are only a few real-deal Chartbeat competitors in the world. IO is one of them. What sets IO apart is a large number of unique practical features developed and added on specifically for editorial teams’ needs. Those needs have been communicated to IO by news production and media industry leaders who know their industries, with all most current challenges and objectives, inside and out.

An enterprise-level analytic platform with super flexible real time and historical data reporting that supports a great amount of standard and custom filters, available for any time range
A visual representation that writers, editors and teams love to use. With its unbelievable utilization rate, nearly 72 out of 100 editorial team members will use IO software on a daily basis. IO’s easy-to-use dashboard is not for the chosen few, but for everyone on the editorial team
A secure system that can be implemented on absolutely all digital and operated properties (website, any application, Google AMP, FB Instant Articles); and that is fit for every web technology (infinite scroll, galleries, Iframe videos, multi-page articles, dynamic content)

Unlimited training sessions and 3-minute customer support response time, guaranteed by SLA. Starting at $375/mo.

Features

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Control all editorial KPIs (e.g., published articles count, engagement time, scroll depth, revenue) with instant access to a live-modified dashboard, as user-based, session-based and article-based filters are applied

Control all metrics from multiple websites and applications within one single master dashboard

Support for custom variables, fit for various tracking jobs, such as pushing custom tags through the data layer, DMP or your CMS, setting up cross-domain article tracking, etc.

Free of charge unlimited historical data storage with shareable reports and no sampling involved

Monitor sponsored brand content - native ads - performance in real time and share those reports with one single click

Behavioral and growth analyses of audiences through filtering historical and real-time data by page parameters (author/section/content type, etc.) and by traffic characteristics (device, referrer, delivery platform, user type, location)

An engine for setting traffic objectives and related alerts, which can be sent via Slack, other messengers, or via email to any device

A/B testing of headlines and an overlay widget for the homepage

Detailed real-time analytics

Filtering by authors, sections and publication types when viewing historical data for a site or a group of websites

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What is Chartbeat and Why Should You Care?

Chartbeat is a time-proven market leader in content analytics solutions. It has been rocking the market for way longer than other players and has, as a result, developed a massive market share and a loyal base of end users. Chartbeat, undoubtedly, provides a solid value proposition to those willing to benefit from the insights content analytics software can offer. Yet, for a more demanding client, there are tools like IO - the ‘master’ alternative to Chartbeat - that, arguably, already provide a better value proposition. It is that IO Technologies has found aspects where market leaders’ products were not up to date with the dynamically changing and digitizing fields of news editorial and media production.

The world has changed massively in the past few decades. One aspect of that change is how recent technological developments have transformed the business of media publishing to the point where it’s no longer recognizable. IO believes it knows exactly what the interplay between ongoing developments in social, technological and media production fields is about. Markets evolve, customers evolve, data evolves, content production evolves, and so should best software for editorial teams. Online content publishing businesses could not imagine being successful without using Chartbeat for a long-long time. What is Chartbeat, you ask? It’s a tool that has more recently conceptualized and recently developed tools, Chartbeat alternatives like IO, not on the horizon, but already here, up and rolling.

Can Your Team Afford Chartbeat Pricing Plans?

Chartbeat has been on the market for way longer than other players, which means that the value its editorial business company clients receive is hard, yet admittedly possible to beat. IO’s pricing starts at $375 per one month and, coupled with additional features that virtually no other editorial dashboard has, provides, in our opinion, a significantly superior deal to Chartbeat pricing, of which many have heard, but little have known. We believe we are rightfully among top Chartbeat competitors, and, based on Similartech data, IO is actually a No. 1 contender.

Why IO Beats Other Chartbeat Alternatives

Measure and control content engagement performance in every dimension - filter by authors, editors, sections and topics
Make faster and better decisions based on customized, content-specific dashboards (articles, videos and photo galleries)
A dedicated section for media holding companies that gathers summary dashboards for every single media website under an ‘umbrella’ company’s control
Get native Facebook insights (post reach, CTR, engagement) for each operated page without leaving the dashboard
Provide up-to-date insights to brands using shareable article drill down
Precise real-time publisher analytics coupled with delay-free and non-sampled historical insights sliced at any angle you wish

Among other Chartbeat competitors, we have distinct features that make our product absolutely unique and one of a kind. We conceptualized and designed IO Technologies to not just stand out as an alternative to Chartbeat, but to make it a seriously better product in all relevant aspects. IO is GDPR compliant, backed by ‘lightning-fast’ customer support and is on a space mission to make all editorial teams data-driven and more productive. Starting at $375/month.