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Meltwater Overview

What is Meltwater?

Meltwater, a pioneer of media intelligence, gives PR, communications and marketing professionals the information advantage they need to stay ahead and a single, integrated solution to be efficient. As the only all-in-one solution for PR and social media, more than 27,000 companies use Meltwater’s media and social intelligence to stay on top of billions of online conversations and extract relevant insights to strategically manage their brands. With nearly 20 years of experience analyzing data, Meltwater is dedicated to personal, global service built on the local expertise of 50 offices across six continents. Our clients can monitor media coverage across both news and social media. We track over 300,000 online news sources, have partnerships for print and broadcast monitoring, and listen to social conversations, in real-time, across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, comments, review sites, forums, message boards, and over 300 million blogs. We help our clients analyze media and social media coverage with ease, with both qualitative and quantitative metrics. Our ever expanding widget library allows clients to seamlessly create dashboards to help visualize media coverage and report on the ROI of their PR and marketing efforts. Everything is interactive and exportable, to give the context behind the numbers. Media Intelligence for PR With over 300,0000 sources and the largest library of premium content, monitor and analyze every piece of relevant media coverage from online publications, print, social media, TV and radio stations in real time. Connect with influencers and journalists and track your outreach. Social Listening & Analytics and Social Media Management The Social division, formerly Sysomos (acquired in April 2018), offers comprehensive and integrated data solutions to drive your social strategy. Research and monitor 200+ billion social conversations with unlimited queries and no data caps, engage and publish from one platform, easily find social influencers, dig into consumer insights, and discover communities driving social conversations. Influencer Management for Marketers Scale your influencer marketing strategy by discovering and vetting the best influencers and creators for your brand from a global database of over 35 million profiles across the most popular social media networks. Streamline your campaigns, foster relationships, and manage data with a comprehensive influencer relationship management (IRM) system. Measure campaign and sales success to showcase ROI. Customized Solutions for the Enterprise The Enterprise Solutions team ensures that even the most complex deliverables are met quickly and effectively by our team of industry experts and analysts. Meltwater provides professional services and premium offerings for the world's leading brands.

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Product Description

Manage and measure a data-driven PR program with hyper-targeted search, pitching, social media and journalist relations features.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Meltwater is the only truly global player in media and social intelligence. We have 27,000 clients across 121 countries, and have offices in 50 cities in 27 countries.

This global presence, and the need to serve that global client base means that our source base is the largest on the market, and we provide insights on the full breadth of your media coverage, not just a portion.

Our social media listening capability comes with unlimited queries and no data limitations and is completely integrated with the traditional coverage and social management technologies. Additionally, our proprietary method to identify the most relevant journalists and influencers allows for more targeted PR pitching.

We don't charge for simultaneous access to our platform, and we don't have any hidden caps or fees throughout your subscription.


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Meltwater
Company Website
Year Founded
2001
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
Twitter
@Meltwater
25,254 Twitter followers
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2,550 employees on LinkedIn®
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Meltwater was founded in 2001 as the world’s first online media monitoring company. Today, we are a publicly traded, global leader in media intelligence and social analytics. We help our customers better understand, influence and engage with their stakeholders, and we are fortunate enough to work with over 30,000 corporate customers in more than 120 countries around the world.


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Verified User in Entertainment
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What do you like best about Meltwater?

There are some interesting visualisations such as word cloud and top territories.

Massive amount of data being collected.

The parts of the tool that provide an easy way to compare/contrast searches are valuable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

The social media account management (loading in Instagram / Facebook pages) isn't manageable timewise.

Am yet to find a use case that makes the tool essential for our day to day.

Data access is largely tricky. I'm not aware of a way to easily export and interrogate data.

Missing complete TikTok data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What are the business questions you are trying to answer using the tool? Do those business questions need this information? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

The tool has proved beneficial adding extra detail to our descriptions of an artist's audience.

Benefits are largely from a PR angle as it stands. It helps us look aware of our audience. We're yet to translate this information into actionable insight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Meltwater?

I appreciate the customer service and the media tracking and reporting. The daily monitoring reports we set up were helpful in a crisis. I don't have experience with competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

The positive and negative analyses in some reports weren't always accurate—more flexibility in the research. The interface needs to be more user-friendly. Somebody could improve the words by allowing more control by the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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You will appreciate the staff; they are accommodating at all times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

When we were in a crisis, Meltwater allowed us to monitor media attention and published reports quickly. We were more productive as a result. Business performance did not increase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Meltwater?

the self-serve tool which can give me real time data anytime. It's good for agency to get data for pitching proposal and set up any crisis report. The wide coverage of countries and languages also serve multi-markets requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

The lack of social channels in China, epscially two big ones - weibo and wechat

Limited posts on Facebook and no posts on Instagram being captured

Inaccurate sentiment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

When doing pitching proposal, i use meltwater to search key messages of the brands and consumers' perspectives on the brands. The quick turnaround time and the buzz peak helps me easier define the key topics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bridgette M.
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What do you like best about Meltwater?

Easy to use, great visuals, like that it's easy to build charts and filters to get the information I need. Customer service is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

My biggest struggle is that the screen captures in the help are in French. It's difficult to figure out things on my own when I can't read the screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping to identify specific educational gaps through social media Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Meltwater?

Continuous innovation and improvement in the SaaS solution

Expert in social media intelligence and social listening

Local team to decipher social media culture and societal trends in different parts of the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

The announcement of the innovation and tool improvement is often much more promising than the actual output

The support service quality is not satisfying, for example, the quality control process for some projects is missing, information is not always transparent, etc

They have great difficulty managing transversal and complicated projects

It seems the team's turnover rate is high, and they often report a lack of resources issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

Showcasing the power of social listening data and empowering internal users with right tools according to their different levels of knowledge regarding social media intelligence Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Meltwater?

Meltwater's comprehensive and real-time media monitoring tools are the best in the market for fast and reliable intelligence gathering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

The cost of Meltwater is quite high, and while the price tag is worth it there are additional costs for expanded access that are difficult to anticipate when signing on for the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

Meltwater monitoring and real-time alerts have allowed our staff to keep our clients abreast of emerging news and issues ahead of our competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Meltwater?

Meltwater offers an easy-to-use interface with all the tools you need to successfully, track monitor and distribute communications. It's an integral piece of my comms strategizing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

Creating regular reports and updates on your own coverage can be a little challenging to do alone, but leveraging Meltwater's super accessible support teams and my own account manager make it much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

Generating targeted lists of media, distriburte pitches and releases, track media coverage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jorge A.
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digital marketing specialist
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What do you like best about Meltwater?

The Meltwater social media listening tool is a good monitoring tool that considers all social networks, blogs, and popular news, it is great when I look for some real-time trends. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

tiene un buen entendimiento del español, pero quizás podría ser mejor (el español es un idioma difícil de entender teniendo en cuenta el significado que cada país o región le da a cada palabra) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Meltwater:

Meltwater is perfect for monitoring all your social media and taking control of what people are saying about your brand and the sentiments around it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

All related to real-time reports: crisis, trends, and comments. Custom reports about competitors, and what people say about them, category trends, what people are searching for, and what experiences they are sharing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Meltwater?

Es fácil de usar y de configurar, y muestra una gran variedad de datos, gráficas e información en tiempo real. Los Dashboards y alertas son muy útiles y funcionales. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

La clasificación automatica de sentimiento en el idioma español, podría ser mejor. Siempre se necesita reclasificar un alto volumen de menciones, el resto me parece muy bien Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Meltwater:

Es una gran plataforma con mucho potencial. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

Conocer en tiempo real la conversación en torno a la marca, me es muy util sobre todo cuando tenemos alguna crisis de marca y necesitamos información en tiempo real. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mohamed N.
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Business Insights | Social Media Analyst
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What do you like best about Meltwater?

Meltwater gives opportunity to get information and data from social media platforms like Twitter and blogs and news websites that's very helpful for analysis the audience demographics and sentiment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Meltwater?

Meltwater have to more develop for git data from Instagram comments like they do with Twitter thread also TikTok comments what is needed to analysis the content from GCC and Arab countries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Meltwater solving and how is that benefiting you?

Meltwater helpful for creating benchmark analysis and find the actionable insight for the company and for the audience demographics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.