Where Forecast's numbers come from
Every forecast combines your own posting history with public signals about what people in each country are searching
for, watching, reading and talking about. Here is every source, what Forecast takes from it, and what it's used for.
Forecast only reads: it never posts to any of them.
Your accounts
Read only with your permission, and only for your own forecasts.
Buffer
Your account name and email, your channels, and your drafts, scheduled and sent posts with their results.
- Used for
- The posts to forecast, and the history each channel's forecasts learn from
- Refreshed
- Every 15 minutes while you're posting, hourly when quiet
- Access
- Sign in with Buffer, read-only
Instagram Optional
Your followers by country, age and gender, and your posts' reach.
- Used for
- Weighing each country by where your audience really is
- Refreshed
- Daily, once connected
- Access
- Instagram login, read-only
YouTube Analytics Optional
Your viewers by country, age and gender.
- Used for
- Weighing each country by where your viewers are
- Refreshed
- Daily, once connected
- Access
- Google login, read-only
Trends and attention
What people are searching for and paying attention to, per country. Used to match each post to the moment.
Google Trends, Trending Now
Trending searches in each country, their approximate search volume and related headlines.
- Used for
- Trend fit, the trends page and trend alerts
- Refreshed
- Hourly
- Access
- Public RSS feed
Google Trends keyword interest
How interest in a post's topic has moved in a country, through DataForSEO. Only the search term and country are sent.
- Used for
- Whether a post's topic is rising or fading where you post
- Refreshed
- On demand, cached for an hour
- Access
- DataForSEO API
X trends
Trending topics and their post counts in each country X covers.
- Used for
- Trend fit and the trends page
- Refreshed
- Every 3 hours, for the countries you target
- Access
- X API
YouTube most popular
The most popular videos in each country: titles, channels and views.
- Used for
- What people are watching, on the trends and country pages
- Refreshed
- Every 3 hours
- Access
- YouTube Data API
Wikipedia most-read
The most-read articles from each country, with their page views.
- Used for
- What people are reading up on, on the trends and country pages
- Refreshed
- Every 6 hours
- Access
- Wikimedia public API
Mastodon trending hashtags
Trending hashtags and how many posts used them today, from a large server in each country covered.
- Used for
- Conversation on the open social web, on the trends and country pages
- Refreshed
- Every 2 hours
- Access
- Public Mastodon API
News and context
What's happening in each country. Used for the pre-publish check and each country's context.
Google News
Political and breaking-news headlines from each country's edition.
- Used for
- Sensitive-moment flags and each country's news context
- Refreshed
- Every 3 hours, for the countries you target
- Access
- Public RSS feed
GDELT
Headlines from news sites worldwide, by country and language.
- Used for
- Sensitive-moment flags and each country's news context
- Refreshed
- Every 3 hours, for the countries you target
- Access
- Public GDELT API
News publishers
Headlines from The Guardian, The New York Times, NewsData.io, GNews and Event Registry, where enabled.
- Used for
- More news coverage for the same checks
- Refreshed
- Every 3 hours
- Access
- Each publisher's API
Nager.Date
Public holidays in each country.
- Used for
- Flagging posts that land on a holiday, and timing
- Refreshed
- Weekly
- Access
- Public API
World Bank
Country facts: population, age groups, urban share, internet use, income per person and unemployment.
- Used for
- Background on each country page. It describes the country, not your audience.
- Refreshed
- Built into Forecast, updated with new releases
- Access
- World Bank open data
Unicode CLDR
The languages spoken in each country.
- Used for
- Reading news and trends in the right languages
- Refreshed
- Built into Forecast
- Access
- Open data
How Forecast stores and protects this data, and how long it's kept, is in the
privacy policy. Names and logos belong to
their owners and are shown only to identify each source; none of them makes, endorses or sponsors Forecast.
