Who operates MediaMonitoringBot?

MediaMonitoringBot is operated by the company of the same name. It functions as a content aggregator.

Does MediaMonitoringBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. MediaMonitoringBot generally follows robots.txt directives, so you can allow or disallow it with a rule for its user agent.

Should I block MediaMonitoringBot?

It depends on your distribution strategy. Keep MediaMonitoringBot allowed to reach the audiences it serves, or disallow it to keep readers on your own site.

MediaMonitoringBot - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is MediaMonitoringBot?

MediaMonitoringBot is a content aggregator. MediaMonitoringBot crawls and indexes news and media publishers websites for a new materials and try to match it against keywords provided by our customers (subscribers) and send them updates based on that information.

MediaMonitoringBot collects and redistributes content from across the web, so pages it can reach may be surfaced to audiences well beyond your own site. Aggregated copies also become part of the corpus AI systems draw on, which makes it worth knowing what MediaMonitoringBot takes and how often.

Like any automated client, MediaMonitoringBot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

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How to handle MediaMonitoringBot

Allow MediaMonitoringBot if you want your content distributed through the feeds and apps it supplies. Disallow it if you would rather people reach that content only on your own site.

To control MediaMonitoringBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: MediaMonitoringBot
Disallow: /

MediaMonitoringBot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

A publisher checks how often MediaMonitoringBot pulls new articles and whether the aggregated version links back to the original.
An editor keeps MediaMonitoringBot allowed so new posts reach the readers of the apps it supplies.