Rival IQ
Tool · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Rival IQ describes itself like this: "Social media marketing analytics with advanced competitive analysis, SEO, social reporting and content marketing tools. Free 14-day trial" (homepage). That is a self-description, not an independent assessment: the word "advanced" is its own.
The occupation is named outright: social network analytics, and with an emphasis on comparison against competitors. Publishing posts, scheduling or working with several accounts the tool does not promise — this is counting work, not publishing work.
The interface language of the homepage is en-US. The markup declares no other language versions.
A developer section the tool does not announce, and this case is an instructive one. From the homepage leads the address https://www.rivaliq.com/developers/google-data-studio/, which contains the word "developers" — but the page that opens contains no signs of developer documentation. The presence of a programming interface is not proved by an address: a coincidence in the spelling of a link is not yet a developer section.
Which platforms it works with
The list is taken from the "Channels" section on the channels page. Seven are named: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest.
One reservation we will make honestly. This is the composition of a section of a page, not a phrase of the kind "we support such-and-such platforms": there is no direct statement of support by the tool, there is a list of channels which it moved onto a separate page. For an analytics tool such a list does mean the set of platforms it counts, although the tool itself never utters the word "supported".
The tool names no other platforms. Separately we note that among the seven there is not a single Russian-language platform — no VK, no Telegram, no RuTube, no "Dzen".
What is free
About anything free the source says exactly three words, and those in the self-description on the homepage: "Free 14-day trial". A trial period is announced, and its length is named — fourteen days.
What is included in it, whether a card is required and how it is limited in the range of capabilities — on the pages read there is nothing. A permanent free plan the tool does not announce, but neither is there a direct denial of one on its pages.
How you earn with it
Rival IQ has no affiliate programme — no announced one, at any rate. Seven addresses were checked: /affiliate, /affiliates, /affiliate-program, /partners, /referral, /partner-program and /ambassador — all return 404.
The check was threefold: the direct addresses, the footer of the homepage and the sitemap. Neither in the footer nor in the map is there a page about a programme. Earning on referred clients under a scheme announced by the tool is impossible, because no scheme is announced.
What it will not do
Counting Russian-language platforms is not something Rival IQ promises: in the list of channels there is not one of them.
A programming interface it does not promise either — the single address with the word "developers" turned out to be a page about something else, with no signs of documentation in it.
Earning on referred clients it will not let you do: no programme is announced, seven addresses, the footer and the sitemap have been checked.
Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
the platform describes itself as follows: «Social media marketing analytics with advanced competitive analysis, SEO, social reporting and content marketing tools. Free 14-day trial.»
Self-description: this is the platform's claim about itself, not an independent assessment
source, checked 2026-07-28
Platforms
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest
the «Channels» section; the FIRST data on Rival IQ's supported platforms in the catalogue
source, checked 2026-07-28
API access
the address https://www.rivaliq.com/developers/google-data-studio/ was found on the home page by the «api/dev» marker in the address itself, but the page that opened contains no signs of developer documentation — this does not confirm a developer section
CORRECTED the previous version declared any address containing the word api or dev found on the home page to be a developer section. All 57 such records were checked by opening the address: 24 turned out to be documentation. See data/technical/dev-links-verified.tsv and docs/research/S195-догадка-по-адресу.md
source, checked 2026-07-28
Languages
the interface language of the home page: en-US
The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang
source, checked 2026-07-28
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