Business Intelligence

IPTC Media Topics

IPTC Media Topics is a media taxonomy of over 1,200 terms available in 13 languages for classifying news and text subjects. It is important for editorial systems, archives, search, metadata tagging, and newsroom workflows.

Why IPTC topic monitoring matters

Publishers, archives, wire services, content-management systems, and media intelligence tools benefit from a common vocabulary for subject tagging. IPTC media topics make news easier to classify, organize, and retrieve in professional editorial environments.

What Problem Does It Solve?

Free-text topic search is inconsistent across publishers and languages. IPTC gives teams a structured editorial taxonomy for building better archives, alerts, recommendations, and topic dashboards.

Who Is It For?

Publishers, newsroom product teams, and CMS developers working with editorial metadata.

Media intelligence providers and archive/search teams organizing large content libraries.

Content strategists and analysts tracking topic volume and narrative shifts.

AI teams building article tagging, summarization, and topic-aware assistants.

Key Benefits

Retrieve news by professional editorial taxonomy rather than ad hoc topic labels.

Support archives, tagging systems, topic pages, newsroom dashboards, and content analytics.

Combine IPTC topics with boolean terms for a more focused retrieval workflow.

Use headlines, briefs, or full text based on the level of analysis required.

Access the service through API, MCP, and the web app.

Use Cases

Editorial systems that power topic pages and newsroom alerts.

Archive and search products that need taxonomy-aware retrieval.

Media-intelligence tools that compare coverage across IPTC topics.

AI assistants that summarize topic developments using MCP-connected retrieval.

How It Works

Select the IPTC media topic relevant to your editorial or intelligence workflow.

Retrieve headlines, briefs, or full text and optionally narrow with boolean search.

Filter by language or geography, then send results into CMS tools, analytics systems, or AI agents.

AI and MCP Workflows

Use MCP so AI agents can fetch topic-coded news before preparing editorial briefs or archive summaries.

Combine IPTC topics with entities, products, or places for richer story analysis.

Automate metadata-aware newsroom and media-intelligence workflows.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who uses IPTC topics? Publishers, newsroom systems, archives, and wire-service style workflows use them widely.

Is this useful beyond publishing? Yes. It is also useful for media monitoring, research, and AI-assisted content analysis.

Can AI agents retrieve topic-based news directly? Yes. MCP access is built for that kind of workflow.

Getting Started

Choose the IPTC topics that define your editorial, archive, or media-intelligence use case. Then select headlines, briefs, or full text depending on how much depth the workflow needs. API, MCP, and web app access are included. Each headline costs 1 credit, each brief costs 2 credits, and each full text result costs 5 credits. For recurring newsroom and archive usage, the annual plan gives stronger value because you pay for only 10 months and get 12 months of access, which means 2 months free.

Pricing

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

Tier	Credits	Price	Overage Cost
Micro	200	CAD 30/mo CAD 300/yr	CAD 0.18/credit
Starter	1,000	CAD 120/mo CAD 1,200/yr	CAD 0.15/credit
Business	4,000	CAD 300/mo CAD 3,000/yr	CAD 0.09/credit
Enterprise	20,000	CAD 900/mo CAD 9,000/yr	CAD 0.06/credit

Pricing Explanation

Credit-based pricing with different rates for headlines, briefs, and full-text articles.

How Pricing Works

Credit Usage

Credits are consumed based on the type of content you receive:

Headlines:1 credit per article

Briefs (summaries):2 credits per article

Full Text:5 credits per article

How It Works

Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance
Credits are consumed when articles are delivered
Choose the content depth that matches your needs
Unused credits do not roll over to the next month

Plan Features Comparison

Feature	Micro	Starter	Business	Enterprise
Number of Queries	1	3	10	30
Email Recipients	1	5	20	100
Webhooks	1	3	10	20
Portfolio Companies	1	10	40	200

Pro Tip: Start with headlines to maximize your credit usage, and upgrade to briefs or full text for topics that need deeper analysis.