What is mediaboardbot?
mediaboardbot is a web crawler operated by Mediaboard, a PR and media intelligence platform. It monitors online media sources for brand mentions, news coverage, and sentiment data that powers Mediaboard's real-time media monitoring and analytics services. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when mediaboardbot visits your website.
Category
| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mediaboardbot/1.0; +https://www.mediaboard.com/) |
| Operated By | Mediaboard |
| Source | Official Website |
| Identity |
Verified
Verified Identification
Requests claiming to be this agent can be authenticated using its published verification method. |
| Triggered By | Operator-configured crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Possibly |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
Why Is mediaboardbot Visiting My Website?
Mediaboard or one of its clients may be gathering competitive intelligence, measuring advertisements, or evaluating content for brand safety. The pages requested reflect the underlying objective.
Should I Block mediaboardbot?
Confirm mediaboardbot's purpose before blocking it. Intelligence gatherers may collect competitive research, measure advertisements, or evaluate pages for brand safety. Weigh any benefit against sharing business or page-level data with its operator or clients. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for mediaboardbot.
How Do I Block mediaboardbot Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block mediaboardbot from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all intelligence gatherers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: mediaboardbot # https://knownagents.com/agents/mediaboardbot
Disallow: /Insights for mediaboardbot
As of October 28, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Compliance
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Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From mediaboardbot?
mediaboardbot's traffic pattern depends on the intelligence being collected. It may revisit specific pages on a schedule, crawl broader sections of your site, or appear only when information is requested. Its request scope and frequency reflect the underlying objective.
Does mediaboardbot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
mediaboardbot is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether mediaboardbot respects it.
Is mediaboardbot Used for AI Model Training?
Possibly, but its category does not establish that purpose. mediaboardbot's operator may use or provide the collected content for AI training or for unrelated automated tasks.
Does Blocking mediaboardbot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. mediaboardbot's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
Does mediaboardbot Access Private Content?
No special access. mediaboardbot can read publicly available pages but cannot bypass authentication. Assume anything you publish openly may be collected.
How Can I Verify a Request From mediaboardbot?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from mediaboardbot and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using mediaboardbot's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "mediaboardbot". Traffic may range from repeated requests to the same pages to broader crawls or one-off fetches. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be mediaboardbot.