Auvipo
French AI media monitoring service scanning print, web, five social networks, TV and radio, then delivering a curated daily press review by email. Public pricing from 285 EUR per month, no commitment, full paywalled articles via CFC licence.
What is Auvipo?
Auvipo is a French media monitoring platform that uses AI to watch a market and turn what it finds into something a communications team can actually read. It is published by AUVIPO, a single-shareholder simplified joint-stock company based at 39 quai de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris and registered on 22 September 2025. The founder, Aurelien Girardot, is a Polytechnique graduate who previously worked at Thales and in deeptech start-ups; the operating team is in Paris.
The service comes through four doors. The flagship is a daily newsletter from 285 EUR a month, combining brand monitoring on up to 15 keywords with an AI-written sector press review. A dashboard from 500 EUR a month is the full workstation: eight channels collected continuously plus two research corpora, 52 analysis screens, between 1 and 24 refreshes a day, in a workspace carrying the client's own branding. Veille Focus at 550 EUR a month covers one boolean query with unlimited access to the articles it catches, and Auvipo Media at 850 EUR a month is a real-time press search engine with a REST API.
Stated coverage is broad: more than 32,000 print sources, the whole of the online press, five social networks (LinkedIn, X, Facebook and Instagram included, TikTok quoted separately), television and radio down to local stations, customer reviews, job postings, blogs and competitor pricing pages.
Four claims carry the positioning. Detection is meant to reach beyond keywords, catching spelling variants, acronyms and roundabout phrasing. A partnership with the CFC, the French reproduction rights body, gives lawful access to full paywalled articles with rightsholders paid. AI sorts, humans validate, the publisher insisting it does not send a wholly machine-written newsletter. And prices are public, with no minimum commitment, in a market the company argues is sold on opaque quotes.
Beyond mention counting, the dashboard computes propagation chains, media plans, journalist mapping, a crisis radar, weak signals and a comparative barometer, with four projectable 3D views. Institutions without competitors get a sector variant in which the word disappears from the interface. Screenshots on the site use an invented demonstration client and fictional data.
What it does
- Monitor a brand, its executives, products and competitors across up to 15 included keywords
- Receive a chaptered daily press review each morning, ranked by AI according to impact and relevance
- Read paywalled articles in full inside the platform, with reproduction rights covered by the CFC partnership
- Track eight channels continuously across a 52-screen dashboard refreshed up to 24 times a day
- Measure share of voice, tone, estimated media value and how far a press release actually travelled
- Spot a crisis on the day it starts through a daily risk score computed on five dimensions
- Produce internal newsletters, PDF press reviews and boardroom slide decks from the coverage already collected
When to use Auvipo / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Auvipo is the right fit.
When to use Auvipo
- Communications directors and internal communications teams who need one reliable morning briefing instead of a dozen scattered alerts
- Press relations and media relations officers tracking brand mentions, spokespeople and journalist coverage across print, broadcast and social
- Public institutions, local authorities, museums, federations and competitiveness clusters, for whom the platform switches to a sector view with no competitor framing
- In-house monitoring desks, consultancies and agencies that want to run their own boolean press queries and serve several clients from one workspace
- Legal and HR departments watching sensitive mentions such as litigation, executives and competitor recruitment signals
When not to use Auvipo
- Freelancers, very small businesses and anyone on a tight budget: there is no permanent free plan and entry starts at 285 EUR per month
- Organisations needing a signed data processing agreement or a recognised security certification, since neither is published or offered
- Teams whose monitoring centres on TikTok, which is quoted separately rather than included in the standard social package
- Users who want a mobile app or real-time push alerts, as the product is web-based and built around a once-daily human-checked delivery
- Buyers who require published terms and conditions and a documented track record, from a company registered only in September 2025
How to use Auvipo
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a demo through the contact form on the site, which accepts up to three enquiries a day and promises a reply within one business day
- Attend a 30-minute video briefing covering your activity, your stakes, sensitive topics, geographies and editorial preferences
- Hand over up to 15 keywords: company name, brands, executives, products, competitors and sensitive subjects, plus their aliases
- Let the Auvipo team configure sources, chaptering, sending frequency and the recipient list within 48 hours
- Review the validation newsletter you receive before the service goes live
- Start the one-week free trial on your own subjects, with no bank card required
- Receive the press review each morning at the time you picked, typically between 7am and 9am, for up to 100 recipients
- Open the dashboard to run boolean queries with AND, OR, NOT, brackets and exact phrases, checked as you type
- Export what you need as an edited newsletter, a 16:9 slide deck, a PDF press review, a printable front page or a revocable private link
- Ask your single point of contact for any adjustment, with changes promised within 24 hours and no ticket to raise
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Published prices in a market that is otherwise sold on quotation, with no minimum commitment and cancellation from one month to the next
- Lawful full-text access to paywalled press through the CFC partnership, with rightsholders remunerated
- One free trial week on every offer, with no bank card required, run on the customer's own subjects
- Up to 100 newsletter recipients included at no extra cost, on both Standard and Premium
- Unusually broad channel coverage for the price: print, web, five social networks, TV, radio, reviews, recruitment signals, blogs and competitor pricing
- European hosting, a Paris-based team and a stated commitment not to transfer client data outside the EU without explicit agreement
- Human editorial validation on top of the AI ranking, and a fully published corporate identity down to company number and VAT
Cons
- No permanent free plan, with the cheapest paid entry at 285 EUR per month
- No terms and conditions published anywhere on the site, only a legal notice and a privacy policy
- No data processing agreement published or offered, which is a real gap for a B2B tool handling data on clients' behalf
- No security certification claimed at all, and no trust or security page
- The question of whether customer data is used to train models is never addressed, in either direction
- Very young publisher, registered on 22 September 2025, with no public track record and no archived history of the site
- The dashboard price is advertised only as from 500 EUR a month, with the real figure depending on scope, and TikTok sits outside the standard social package
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan. Every offer is paid, and the lowest entry point is the Standard daily newsletter at 285.00 EUR per month, billed monthly with no minimum commitment and cancellable from one month to the next. A one-week free trial is offered on all plans without a bank card. Set-up is free, initial configuration being included in the monthly fee. Above that entry point, Newsletter Premium and Veille Focus are each 550 EUR a month, Auvipo Media is 850 EUR a month, and the dashboard is advertised from 500 EUR a month with the exact figure set by scope. Optional charges include 50 EUR a month per additional daily send, a quoted supplement for TikTok, a flat extension beyond 15 keywords, a bespoke package beyond 100 recipients and degressive pricing beyond 300 CFC articles. Combining several offers earns a discount on request, and annual payment carries a reduction on the dashboard.
- 15 keywords
- AI sector press review
- web
- radio and TV
- social monitoring on LinkedIn
- X
- Facebook and Instagram
- everything in Standard plus full press reproduction rights through the CFC partnership
- complete paywalled articles with no paywall
- 100 recipients included
- extended international press monitoring
- one additional newsletter free
- priority responsiveness
- one continuous boolean query
- unlimited access to every article it catches
- three automatic refreshes a day plus manual refresh
- AI tone scoring per article
- real-time filters and queryable archives
- up to 10 users
- 24/7 access with unlimited free sources
- 300 paywalled articles opened per month
- advanced boolean search
- unlimited CSV
- HTML and JSON exports
- REST API
- shared workspaces
- single all-inclusive package
- 52 analysis screens across eight channels
- with screens
- queries
- analyses
- tone scoring
- exports and support all included and no per-click billing
- monthly without commitment or annual with a discount
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Auvipo handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR compliance is claimed explicitly: the privacy policy, last updated 12 May 2026, is written under the General Data Protection Regulation and the French Informatique et Libertes act. It lists the full set of rights, access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection and withdrawal of consent, exercised by writing to contact@auvipo.com with a one-month response commitment, and it points to the CNIL for complaints. Servers are stated to be in Europe, and the site commits that no client data leaves the EU without explicit agreement. Retention periods are given by category. Two gaps are worth noting: no data processing agreement is published or offered, and no data protection officer is named. As a French company, the publisher needs no Article 27 representative and names none.
Who owns the data?
Auvipo positions itself as the data controller for information gathered through its site and services, and states plainly that customer data is never resold. On the platform side it commits that a client's data is never pooled with another customer's and never recycled into a market panel, each account being a separate workspace. When a contract ends, the data is deleted and the publisher says it can evidence the destroyed volumes, with an export provided beforehand on request. No clause transferring ownership of customer content to the publisher was found, though this cannot be confirmed against terms and conditions because the site publishes none.
Reuse rights
The privacy policy sets out four purposes and their legal bases: handling contact and demo requests and improving the service (legitimate interest, art. 6.1.f), delivering the subscribed monitoring service (performance of contract, art. 6.1.b), and meeting accounting and tax obligations (legal obligation, art. 6.1.c). Collected data covers the contact form (name, business email, company, role, message, plus IP and user agent for anti-spam), newsletter recipients (business email supplied by the client, with aggregated non-nominative open and click statistics), and browsing (strictly necessary cookies and anonymised audience measurement through Google Analytics 4 with truncated IP where applicable). Named subprocessors are Vercel and Supabase for hosting, both in the Europe region. The site states there are no advertising cookies and no third-party tracking. Nothing on the site addresses whether customer data feeds model training, in either direction, and no reuse licence is granted to end users.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Auvipo states that its servers are hosted in Europe under the GDPR and that its team is based in Paris. The homepage FAQ asks whether data is hosted in France and answers that servers are in Europe, so the commitment is regional rather than national. The site adds that no client data is transferred outside the European Union without explicit agreement, and the dashboard page repeats that processing is GDPR-compliant. The legal notice names two hosting subprocessors: Vercel Inc., a United States company, whose infrastructure is described as used in the Europe region at Frankfurt, and Supabase Inc., registered in Singapore, with instances in the Europe region. The Frankfurt reference sits in the section describing the hosting of the website itself, so it should not be read as the location of the monitoring platform, for which no country is named. At the end of a contract the publisher says client data is deleted, with an inventory of the destroyed volumes, and exported beforehand on request.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Auvipo.
- No terms and conditions exist on the site: the full sitemap of 22 URLs and every internal link were checked, so the contractual framework of the service is simply not public
- No data processing agreement is published or offered, even though the tool processes data on behalf of business clients; the privacy policy only says subprocessors are bound by GDPR-compliant agreements
- No security certification is claimed anywhere, ISO 27001, SOC 2 or otherwise, and there is no trust or security page to consult
- Whether customer data is used to train AI models is never addressed, so buyers cannot assume either an opt-out or a commitment not to train
- The privacy policy still carries an unedited template line reading that the transactional email provider is to be completed once chosen, so the subprocessor list is incomplete by its own admission
- Every dashboard screenshot and the sample newsletter use invented clients and fictional articles, which the site does flag but which means nothing on display evidences real output
- Coverage claims such as 32,000 print sources, eight channels and 24 refreshes a day are the publisher's own assertions and cannot be verified from outside, while the published comparison against Onclusive, Cision and Kantar Media is written by Auvipo itself and marked indicative
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Effectively none for the customer. There is nothing to install: the Auvipo team configures the service and advertises 72 hours from request to first delivery, with a 30-minute briefing, 48 hours of configuration and a validation newsletter before go-live. The publisher stresses there is no tender, no extra project manager and no lengthy onboarding. The customer's only real work is supplying up to 15 keywords with aliases, competitors and sensitive geographies. Later changes go through a single point of contact within 24 hours. The one genuinely technical option is the REST API in the Auvipo Media plan.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind Auvipo
Social
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Auvipo.
Frequently asked questions
What does Auvipo actually monitor?
How can it give access to paywalled articles legally?
How much does it cost and is there a free plan?
Can I try it before committing?
Is there a minimum contract?
How long does it take to go live?
Where is the data hosted?
Is there an API?
How many people can receive the newsletter?
Who is behind Auvipo?
Should you pick Auvipo?
Auvipo takes aim at a specific grievance rather than a technical gap. Media monitoring in France is largely sold on quotation and annual commitment, and the publisher's answer is to print its prices, drop the lock-in and let buyers compare before talking to anyone. That alone makes the offer legible in a market that rarely is.
What backs the pitch is genuinely broad for the money. Eight channels collected continuously, 52 analysis screens, tone and share of voice, propagation chains, a crisis radar and competitor pricing pages go well beyond a mention list. The CFC partnership matters more than it sounds: reading paywalled articles in full, lawfully, is exactly where cheaper alternatives fall down. Insisting that people re-read what the models rank is a defensible choice too, even if it caps the service at a daily rhythm.
The reservations are documentary rather than functional. The site publishes no terms and conditions, offers no data processing agreement, claims no security certification and never says whether customer data trains its models. For a tool handling press and reputation data on behalf of communications and legal departments, those are the papers a procurement review will ask for first. The company is also very young, registered in September 2025, with the resilience questions that raises. And the headline coverage figures are the publisher's own claims, verifiable only in the trial.
The honest reading is that the trial week is doing real work here. It costs nothing, runs on the buyer's own subjects and settles the coverage question that no external check can. Communications teams, press officers and public institutions priced out of the incumbents will find the proposition serious; anyone whose purchasing depends on contractual paperwork should ask for it in writing before signing.
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