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.
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.
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.
Three posts.
A bigger picture.
A product demo introduces the same training challenge.
The opening changes. The challenge and offer stay consistent.
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.
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
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.
The challenge is spreading.

A training challenge appeared across additional accounts alongside a recurring offer.
Check how the hook changes across creators and whether the pattern continues next week.
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.
- 01You
Choose your competitors
Add the brands and accounts you want to keep an eye on.
- 02Otto
Otto follows the activity
Discover public creator posts and check tracked activity for meaningful changes.
- 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
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.










