How to measure a campaign with posts and profiles

Updated August 23, 2026

Campaigns live in Campaigns, in the sidebar. A campaign is a group of posts you want to measure together: a product launch, a collaboration with several creators, a hashtag challenge. You tell it which posts and profiles take part, and ContentScout collects their metrics every day while the campaign is active. It's a higher-plan feature: if you don't see Campaigns in your sidebar, your plan doesn't include it yet.

Create a campaign

1. 1

   Tap "New campaign"

   The button sits at the top right of Campaigns.

2. 2

   Give it a name and dates

   The starting date can be today or up to 30 days ahead. The end date is optional: without one, the campaign keeps measuring indefinitely.

3. 3

   Add the profiles taking part

   One profile URL per line (TikTok, Instagram or YouTube). Choose which posts to take from them: only the ones from the campaign period, or the whole account.

4. 4

   Add individual post URLs

   If you already know the exact posts involved, paste them here. They're tracked regardless of their date, because you picked them by hand.

5. 5

   Create the campaign

   If it starts today, the first scrape runs immediately and you'll see posts within minutes. If you scheduled it, it starts on its own on the starting date.

What happens after you create it

From the first scrape on, the campaign refreshes every 24 hours, at roughly the same time you created it. Each refresh stores a snapshot of that day's metrics, and those snapshots are what build the evolution curve: that's why the chart needs a couple of days to take shape. Profiles are checked daily too, so a new post from a participant joins the campaign on its own.

• Scheduled: created with a future date, not measuring yet.
• Active: collecting data every day.
• Paused: you paused it; it stops collecting until you resume.
• Ended: its end date passed. It freezes with its final numbers and no longer refreshes.

Sources, quota and limits

At the top of Campaigns there's a tracked posts counter against the total your plan includes. That allowance belongs to the whole account: all your campaigns add up to it. If it fills, campaigns keep working but stop admitting new posts, so it's worth freeing space. Removing a source from Edit also removes its posts from the campaign and gives that allowance back.

Pause, edit and delete

On a campaign's detail page you get Pause (stops collecting without losing what's already measured; the chart shows an honest gap on those days), Edit (name, end date, and adding or removing sources) and Delete (removes the campaign and its data, with no undo). To drop one specific post without touching its source, use the three-dots menu on its card in the Posts tab: it leaves the campaign, frees allowance, and the daily refresh won't bring it back.

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