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Getting Started with NewsbookLM

NewsbookLM helps digital marketing agencies be the one who tells their client first. It watches the news on behalf of you and your clients, scores every article for relevance, and turns the results into a briefing you can read in minutes or hand straight to a client. You can run a one-off analysis whenever a question comes up, or set up an ongoing persona that delivers a fresh briefing to your inbox on a schedule. This tutorial walks through both, starting from a brand-new account.

Step 1: Create your account

Go to newsbooklm.com and sign up with your email or your Google account. Once you’re signed in, you’ll land on your dashboard. There’s nothing to configure yet — that happens in the next step.

Step 2: Complete onboarding

The first time you sign in, NewsbookLM walks you through a short setup. You’ll be asked to create your first persona — a saved profile that tells NewsbookLM what to watch for. A persona can represent a client (their brand, industry, and competitors) or a personal interest (a topic, hobby, or niche you follow). During onboarding you’ll fill in a name, pick a type (client or personal), and add a few keywords that describe what matters to that persona. You can skip onboarding and create a persona later from the Personas page, but doing it now means your first analysis is ready to run immediately.

Step 3: Run your first Quick Analysis

From the dashboard, open Quick Analysis. Quick Analysis is the fastest way to get a read on what’s happening right now, either using the persona you just created or by typing in a brand and industry on the spot. Select your persona from the dropdown, leave the date range on its default (the last 7 days), and click Generate Analysis. NewsbookLM fetches relevant articles, scores each one, and writes a summary using your selected briefing template.

Step 4: Read your first briefing

When the analysis finishes, you’ll see a results screen with the articles that were found, each tagged as relevant or not relevant, plus an AI-written summary structured around your briefing template’s sections (for example, an executive summary, key developments, and recommended actions). Skim the relevant articles first — they’re the ones worth your attention. The summary at the top is meant to be skimmed in under a minute; the article list below it is there if you want to dig into a specific story. Every analysis you run is automatically saved, so you can always find it again later on the Reports page.

Step 5: Set up a daily automated briefing

Once you trust the results, you don’t have to run analyses manually. Open your persona’s settings and turn on Automated Briefings. You can choose a cadence (daily, weekdays only, or weekly), pick a delivery time, and add the email addresses that should receive it. From then on, NewsbookLM runs the analysis for you and emails the briefing automatically — no need to log in. The full walkthrough is in How to Schedule an Automated Daily Briefing.

Next steps

You now have the basic loop: create a persona, run an analysis, read the briefing. From here, you can go deeper: