Radar

Competitor monitoring. Without the daily scrolling.

Otto follows public TikTok and Instagram activity around your competitors. See new creators, creative tests, offers and paid boosts, then open the source posts or activity history behind each signal.

Radar example

Otto watches daily

Arvo

38 creators

Vela

26 creators

Forma

22 creators

86 creator accountsTikTok + Instagram

The changes you’d miss

Pick a signal. See what Otto found.

What it means for you

Your daily brief

Arvo · Prepared by Otto

A new angle is getting 4.2× this creator’s usual views.

4.2×this creator’s usual views

This post’s views compared with the creator’s established median.

Your next move

Brief two creators on a routine-first opening. Compare it with your product demo.

Source videos included
Ongoing monitoring Changes in context
Example competitor workspace

New faces. Ideas taking off. An offer spreading. The changes worth opening your feed for.

The work behind competitor intelligence

One post is content. A pattern is intelligence.

A creator appears. An idea gets repeated. An offer spreads. Radar connects public competitor activity over time so you can see the move behind the individual posts.

Connected evidenceExample · Stride

Three posts.
A bigger picture.

Monday · First appearanceA new running creator mentions Stride.

A product demo introduces the same training challenge.

Wednesday · RepetitionTwo more accounts use the idea.

The opening changes. The challenge and offer stay consistent.

Friday · Offer signalA new promo-code family appears.

Multiple accounts now point to the same promotion.

Follow the people around the brand
Discover relevant public accounts and mentions beyond the official brand feed.
Notice what changed
Compare new activity with the observed history: fresh creative, new faces, promotions and changes in performance or publishing.
Open the evidence
Inspect source posts where available, or the activity history behind an account-level change. Ask Otto to help explain the findings.

The question it answers

What are our competitors starting, repeating or changing across their creator activity?

Social media competitor analysis, beyond totals

The signals behind your competitors’ next move.

Radar looks for changes in creative, creators, offers, performance, paid promotion and publishing. These six areas cover the full signal range; your timeline keeps the findings together.

The full pictureFrom the first post to the next move

Creative ideas

What are they testing and repeating?

  • New creative angles
  • Angles gaining traction
  • Sounds spreading across accounts

People & conversations

Who is talking about them, and how?

  • Newly discovered accounts
  • Fresh brand mentions
  • Earlier posts found later
  • Complaint-led posts

Posts taking off

What deserves a closer look?

  • Breakout performance
  • Brand mentions gathering momentum

Offers & launch clues

What are they promoting together?

  • New codes and promotion waves
  • Shared promotions suggesting a launch

Paid amplification

Which content picked up paid support?

  • Paid promotion detected on a TikTok post

Publishing changes

Who is stepping up or going quiet?

  • Posting surges
  • Accounts that have gone quiet
The competitor timeline brings these changes together. Daily and weekly briefs select the findings most useful to review.

From signal to decision

Find the change, inspect its evidence, then decide whether it deserves a response from your team.

A useful readout for your next planning meeting

Know what changed. Bring a better next move.

Bring the competitor story into your next planning meeting. Radar’s reports connect observed changes to the content and activity behind them, with a useful next question for your team.

Your competitor briefExample week

The challenge is spreading.

What changedMore creators. One repeated idea.

A training challenge appeared across additional accounts alongside a recurring offer.

What to investigateIs this becoming their campaign format?

Check how the hook changes across creators and whether the pattern continues next week.

A next test for your teamTry the structure in your own voice.

Brief a creator on your audience’s training problem, then compare the new post with your existing creative.

Findings connected to the observed posts and reporting period.

A daily view of what deserves attention
Review the day’s selected findings and open a tracked competitor’s timeline to explore the wider signal history.
A weekly picture of the move
See creative patterns, creator activity, promotions and performance over the completed week, with a suggested tactic to investigate.
A conversation with the research attached
Ask Otto to compare tracked competitors or explore a report. Turn the finding into a better brief, a test or a question for your team.

What your team takes away

A clearer competitor story, the evidence to discuss it and a practical idea to investigate.

From question to outcome

How does Radar monitor competitors?

Set the brands you care about once. Radar builds the public picture, checks for changes, and keeps the evidence together so you can ask better questions.

  1. 01You

    Choose your competitors

    Add the brands and accounts you want to keep an eye on.

  2. 02Otto

    Otto follows the activity

    Discover public creator posts and check tracked activity for meaningful changes.

  3. 03Otto

    Get the changes in context

    Review signals and source posts. Ask Otto what changed and why it matters.

Questions worth asking

A competitor brief you can question.

Keep digging into a signal without rebuilding the research. Otto can read your tracked competitors, reports and available creative analysis to help explain what changed.

Example conversation · A running brand reviewing its competitors

Choose a question

Otto

Start with the repeated training challenge. It appeared on more accounts alongside a recurring offer. Review the connected posts to see whether this is a sustained creative direction or a short promotion.

Example answer grounded in observed creator posts and offer signals.

Start with the repeated training challenge. It appeared on more accounts alongside a recurring offer. Review the connected posts to see whether this is a sustained creative direction or a short promotion.

Choose the right workflow

Monitoring, analytics or a one-time research project?

Competitive intelligence works best when you know what each source can answer. Radar focuses on changes in public competitor and creator activity over time.

You need to know what competitors are trying next.
Use Radar for recurring monitoring, connected signals and weekly competitor context. Follow the source posts when a finding deserves closer investigation.
You need private analytics for your own account.
Use your platform’s first-party analytics for private audience and account information. Radar’s evidence comes from accessible public activity.
You want a starting map of a brand’s creators.
Use Brand Network to research public mentions around a brand. Use Radar when the next question is what changes in that activity over time.

Start by exploring who appears around a brand. Explore Brand Network

A few useful answers

Radar FAQ

How do you do a competitor analysis on social media?

Choose the competitors and period you want to study, collect their public content and relevant creator activity, then compare publishing patterns, creative ideas, offers and available performance metrics. Keep source posts behind your conclusions. Radar supports the recurring collection and change detection, while Otto helps you explore the findings and decide what deserves attention.

Can an AI chat analyze my competitors’ social accounts?

An AI answer is only as useful as the evidence available to it. Ask Otto can use your tracked competitor data, Radar signals and reports to answer questions about observed activity. That gives the conversation a research base beyond a general request to summarize a brand from memory.

What is in a Radar weekly competitor report?

The brief covers the completed week’s observed activity, including relevant creator changes, creative patterns, offers and performance context. It connects findings to available source posts and suggests a grounded tactic to investigate. Measured weekly gains are distinguished from lifetime totals. A week without sufficient useful evidence may not produce a brief.

Can Radar detect paid boosts on competitor videos?

Radar can surface detected paid promotion on a TikTok post, rather than treating a view spike alone as proof of a boost. The signal does not reveal ad spend, identify the advertiser behind a creator post or confirm the ad is still running. Use it to study the creative that received paid support.

What is Octohog Radar?

Radar monitors public TikTok and Instagram activity around competitors and their discovered creators. It connects creative, creator, promotion, performance and publishing changes into a competitor timeline. Review source posts where available and activity context for account-level changes, then explore the findings with Ask Otto.

Can I ask questions about competitors through Ask Otto?

Yes. Ask Otto what changed, which creators appeared, or which ideas keep coming up. Otto can use your competitor research and Radar results to explain the findings and point you toward the relevant sources. Your competitor board remains available for a closer look.

Which competitor signals can Radar detect?

Radar covers new creative angles, angles gaining traction, shared sounds, newly discovered accounts, fresh brand mentions, earlier posts found later, complaint-led posts, breakout performance, mentions taking off, promotions, campaign-launch clues, paid amplification, posting surges and quiet accounts. The competitor timeline holds the wider signal range; daily and weekly briefs select useful findings from the available evidence.

Does Radar check every creator account every day?

Radar runs recurring daily checks, with refresh frequency based on account activity. Active accounts receive more frequent checks; older or inactive accounts can be checked less often. Coverage depends on discovered public accounts and accessible posts, rather than every creator on a platform.

Can Radar tell when a competitor enters a new market?

Radar can provide clues to investigate, including language context in captured posts and newly discovered creator activity. These do not by themselves confirm a creator’s country, a new market entry or a commercial expansion. Review the source content and other evidence before making that conclusion.

How is Radar different from a social media analytics dashboard?

A dashboard typically summarizes account and post metrics. Radar focuses on changes: a fresh creative idea, a creator appearing, an offer spreading or an account changing its posting activity. It connects those observations to evidence and reporting so your team can investigate what competitors are trying next.

How are Radar and Brand Network different?

Brand Network maps public creator mentions around a brand for a research question. Radar follows tracked competitor activity over time and surfaces changes. Use the network to understand who is appearing around a brand, and Radar to keep up with what changes next.

Meet your AI marketing teammate

Give Otto the competitors. Get back the changes.

Keep up with their creators, creative ideas and promotions without making competitive research your second job.