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Christian IglesiasCI
Christian Iglesias
June 30, 2025
6-minute read

Contact search filters

The full list of Prezly contact filters and how to use them to manage your contacts.


Contact search filters are a powerful tool that allows you to find the exact contacts you need so you can include them in segments or tag them as you see fit.

You can also search the filters themselves.


Using filters to search for contacts

To find specific contacts in your CRM, you can:

  • Select a predefined filter in the left sidebar
  • Use advanced filtering, where you can add multiple Rules to the filter form

There is a wide range of rules you can use to narrow down the search for specific contacts, such as Tag, Country, Outlet/Publication, Language & Address, Social Media, Notes & Coverage, and more. You can even filter by who in your team the Contact(s) were Created By.

Watch the video to see how we used Tags, Country, and Created At to search for contacts who: ​ ​ ​ ​

Registered for a recent webinar about Crisis Communications ​ ​ ​

Are not located in Belgium

Subscribed to Prezly in 2020

 

Note: After you have added rules to the filter form, clicking on any of the predefined filters in the left sidebar will overwrite the rules in the filter form.

Useful tips on using filters for contact management

Save a search for future use ​

If you are likely to need to search for the same contacts in the future, you can easily save search criteria as Segments, so that the contacts that match a certain group of filters will appear on the left sidebar.

Keep your contact list clean

Use the Bounced filter to see which contacts have issues with their email addresses, so that you can remove or update their information.

Share filter search results with teammates

Every search creates a unique and shareable URL, so if you want to share the search results after applying custom filters across Prezly's features (Contacts, Stories, Campaigns, or Coverage) with your teammates, you can easily copy the URL and share it with them.

When they click on the link, they should see the same search results, as long as they have appropriate permissions assigned in Team Management

The full list of contact filters by subtype

Common filters:

Click rate
Values: Percentage
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Function / title
Values: Alphanumerical | Multiple
Operators: Any of these | None of these

Media type
Values: Alphanumerical | Multiple
Operators: Any of these | None of these | All of these

Number of linked contacts
Values: Numerical
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Number of linked organizations
Values: Numerical
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Open rate
Values: Percentage
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Organization
Values: Alphanumerical | Multiple
Operators: Any of these | None of these | All of these

Periodicity
Values: Alphanumerical | Multiple
Operators: Any of these | None of these

Tag
Values: Alphanumerical | Multiple
Operators: Any of these | None of these | All of these

Contact information:

Email address
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Any of these | None of these | All of these

Has multiple emails
Values: Yes | No

Number of emails
Values: Numerical
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Type
Values: Person | Organisation

With email address
Values: Yes | No

 

Contact management:

Discovered relations
Values: Yes | No

Duplicate
Values: Yes | No

 

Personal information:

First name
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Is | Is not | Contains | Does not contain

Gender
Values: Male | Female | Unspecified
Operators: Is | Is not

Last name
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Is | Is not | Contains | Does not contain

Name
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Is | Is not | Contains | Does not contain

 

Language & address:

City
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Any of these | None of these

Country
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Any of these | None of these

Language
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Any of these | None of these | All of these

State / province
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Any of these | None of these

 

Social media:

All
Values: Alphanumerical
Operators: Is | Is not

 

Success metrics:

Click rate
Values: Percentage
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Coverage
Values: Yes | No

Number of coverage
Values: Numerical
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Open rate
Values: Percentage
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Subscribed to
Values: Site (Dropdown)
Operators: Is | Is not

 

Status:

Bounced
Values: Yes | No

Data request
Values: Incomplete Requests | Complete Requests | Deletion Requests | Information Requests | Data Correction | Other

Last contacted
Values: Date (Dropdown)
Operators: Is after | Is before | Is exactly

Reported spam
Values: Yes | No

Subscribed

Values: Yes | No

Teammate
Values: Yes | No

Unsubscribed
Values: Yes | No

 

Notes & coverage:

Coverage
Values: Yes | No

Notes
Values: Yes | No

Number of coverage
Values: Numerical
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

Number of notes
Values: Numerical
Operators: Equal = | Greater > | Greater than or equal >= | Less than < | Less than or equal <=

 

Activity:

Created at
Values: Date (Dropdown)
Operators: Is after | Is before | Is exactly

Created by
Values: Prezly User (Dropdown)
Operators: Any of these | None of these

Last modified
Values: Date (Dropdown)
Operators: Is after | Is before | Is exactly

 

Import:

Affected by import
Values: Contact import (Dropdown)
Shows: All contacts that were created or updated as a result of running a specific import

Created by import
Values: Contact import (Dropdown)
Shows: All new contacts that were created as a result of a specific import

Updated by import
Values: Contact import (Dropdown)
Shows: All contacts that were updated as a result of running a specific import

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