This article is designed to teach you how to filter mentions to specific countries in the three different alert types. It will also show you how to include mentions that do not have geolocation data.

Please note that Mention only provides the ability to filter per country - not by city or state.

Within your Mention Alerts, you have the option of applying a country filter that will allow you to monitor or block specific countries from your keyword search. Mention utilizes data from the web and social media to identify the location of each publication we fetch to your account.

You can configure country filters at any time in the alert configuration page. When you create or edit an alert, the configuration page will display a tab titled Countries and Languages:

By default, your alert will be set to monitor All Countries and will monitor any publication that mentions your keywords, even if the mention does not provide country data.

To monitor specific countries:

⚙️ If you modify your alert with country filters after alert creation, Mention will begin to monitor new mentions with the country preferences in mind.

You can modify your country filters at any time using the alert configuration page. When you create or edit an alert, the Alert Creation page will display a tab titled Countries and Languages.

By default, your Alert will be monitoring all countries. To choose specific countries to monitor:

Within the Advanced Alert, you have access to boolean operators dedicated to monitoring or blocking countries from your alerts. The operators available are:

To monitor specific countries:

This query will fetch mentions when the text "Nike Air Max" appears in publications from France or Spain.

To monitor mentions without a country code:

This query will fetch mentions from France and from websites that do not have a listed country code.

⚙️ The country operators will only fetch mentions from Web, News, Blogs, Forums, and Twitter/X. If you need to create a query to monitor other sources and specific countries, please contact your dedicated account manager.

Unfortunately, not every article or social mention informs us of the country it comes from. When this happens, we mark these mentions as undetected.

​Mention Fetches Geolocation Data for the Following Sources:

Sources with an asterix may be subject to additional restrictions, listed below.

​Geolocation Info is not Fetched for the Following Sources:

⚙️ For instructions on how to monitor mentions that do not have geolocation data, please see the rest of the guide below.

Unfortunately, not every article or social mention informs us of the country it comes from. When this happens, we mark these mentions as undetected.

To ensure you track mentions without country data codes:

To monitor mentions without country information:

To monitor mentions without country information using a Boolean Query, add the following operator:

Example query:

This query will fetch mentions of "Nike Air Max" from undetected countries.

You can combine specific countries and undetected countries in the same query. For instance:

This query will fetch mentions of "Nike Air Max" either from France or from undetected countries, provided the mentions are in French.

For a comprehensive list of country codes and proper monitoring with country codes, please check out the article: Country Codes for Advanced Alerts.

To save time, we have compiled quick shortcuts for country monitoring based on specific regions. Please feel free to copy these shortcuts into your boolean query to monitor specific countries:

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If you want to monitor all the European countries, you can use the following shortcut:

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If you want to monitor all African countries, you can use this shortcut:

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If you need to monitor all the Middle East countries, you can copy paste this in your Boolean query:

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If you need to monitor all the LATAM countries:

Mention has the ability to monitor any ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. Below , we have provided a list of some of these country codes to assist with your monitoring! Please feel free to use Command+F / Ctrl +F to easily search for a specific country you want to monitor:

This content provides a clear, organized, and detailed guide for users to understand and apply country monitoring filters in Mention.