Our RSS connector in Teams stopped working. Is that related?

Yes. The in-channel RSS connector was an Office 365 connector, and Microsoft retired those in May 2026. The supported replacement is a Workflows flow; FishOut posts to a Teams Workflows webhook.

How quickly does a story arrive?

Google News is checked every hour on every plan. A story is posted as soon as it is read and clears the floor.

Do we need Power Automate premium?

No. Microsoft says the Teams webhook templates need no premium licence, and Teams alerts are on every FishOut plan.

Can it tell good press from bad?

Each story is read for sentiment toward its subject, which is on the card. Route negative brand stories to a smaller channel with a second, higher floor.

Integrations Microsoft TeamsGoogle News

Google News alerts in Microsoft Teams

Comms teams on Microsoft 365 used to add an RSS connector to a channel. That connector is gone with the rest of the Office 365 connectors, and its replacement is a Power Automate flow. FishOut posts to a Teams Workflows webhook instead, with each story already read for relevance and sentiment.

Start free The Microsoft Teams guide

Google News is read every hour on all plans. Microsoft Teams alerts are on every plan.

[01] WHAT ARRIVES/ MICROSOFT TEAMS MESSAGE

A Google News post, in Microsoft Teams

Positive coverage of your brand in the regional press: a card your comms team can forward without opening anything else.

Comms · #press-and-brand

Workflowsnow

Relevant mention on Google News

Regional retailer moves 40 stores’ customer email onto AcmeMail

: Relevance 87
: Brand
: Positive
Labels: Announcement, Praise

Open in FishOutView on Google News

[02] WHAT GETS FILTERED/ NOISE

What never reaches Microsoft Teams

2 Google News matches that go to Filtered instead, each with its reason.

Filtered · Google News

SportsGoogle News

Acme United draw 2–2 at home

Filtered · Different meaning

A namesake football club.

AggregatorGoogle News

Top 50 email tools of the year (sponsored)

Filtered · Spam

Paid listicles mention everyone and help no one.

[03] KEYWORDS THAT WORK HERE/ GOOGLE NEWS

For Google News, into Microsoft Teams

More keyword shapes are on monitoring Google News.

Brand name with a negative qualifier: “outage”, “breach”, “lawsuit”

These are the stories a comms team must see before a journalist calls.

Executives’ names

Interviews and conference coverage often never name the product.

A floor of 75

A Teams channel has colleagues in it who did not ask for alerts. 75 keeps it to stories they would forward.

Settings · Notifications

Microsoft Teams

Google News → a channel

Healthy

Relevance floor75

Eventsmention.scored

Batch bursts5 min

[04] SET IT UP/ 4 STEPS

Four steps, about five minutes

Google News into Microsoft Teams, start to finish.

1
Open Workflows from the channel
Walkthrough on the Microsoft Teams guide.
2
Paste it under Settings → Notifications → Microsoft Teams
Then send a test.
3
Add Google News keywords under Keywords
Start with: Brand name with a negative qualifier: “outage”, “breach”, “lawsuit”.
4
Floor 75, mention.scored
Batching stays on.

A standard channel, and a co-owner

The Teams webhook trigger cannot post to a private channel yet, and a workflow belongs to the person who created it. Use a standard comms channel and add a co-owner to the flow on day one.

[05] A BUSY DAY/ DIGEST

When Google News gets loud

Microsoft throttles a Teams webhook connection above four requests a second. That is rarely a problem for news — but syndicated stories do arrive together, and a digest card listing them reads better in a comms channel anyway.

Comms · #press-and-brand · 5-min digest

Workflows+5m

3 new mentions for AcmeMail

• AcmeMail named a leader in a mid-market support survey (Google News · 90)
• Retail chains standardise customer email on AcmeMail (Google News · 84)
• Interview: AcmeMail’s founders on building for small teams (Google News · 77)

Open in FishOut

[06] THE RECIPE YOU WOULD OTHERWISE BUILD/ DIY

Power Automate RSS trigger → Teams

The RSS connector’s “When a feed item is published” trigger polls a feed — say a Google Alerts RSS feed — and a Teams action posts each new item to a channel.

A minimum polling interval of 30 minutes
No keyword filter on the trigger
Items with an out-of-order publish date can be skipped

Power Automate RSS trigger → Teams compared with FishOut
	The recipe	FishOut
What reaches Microsoft Teams	Every match	Coverage read at 75 or above
A busy hour	A message per match	One now, one digest
Microsoft Teams delivery	See its source	$0 on Free