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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Service is impeccable and responsiveness is key when dealing with client demands and crisis situations. The tool itself combines media and social tracking and also continues to evolve and improve, including adding broadcast, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

The truth is that no tool is perfect in this space so bringing all the tracking together in a way that is easy to report back to clients is the ultimate goal and Zignal is able to pull in all the data needed to report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

From a client service standpoint, we are solving measurement and ROI to the extent that PR and coverage metrics help us make a larger case for the value of PR, content and marketing. It is not the whole story in demonstrating impact to client business, but certainly important. We also use real-time email alerts to help fast-moving clients stay up on breaking topics and be able to respond quickly, especially in a crisis. That is critical to our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Zignal Labs?

Zignal's real-time intelligence technology helps the world's largest organizations protect their people, places, and position.

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Stay ahead with a modern media intelligence platform. Zignal's real-time and predictive analytics drive smarter decisions to build and protect your company's brand.


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Year Founded
2011
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San Francisco, California
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Zignal Labs is excellent, and it is great for social media marketing as it helps the users with the competitive social media marketing side. Zignal...
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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Zignal Labs is excellent, and it is great for social media marketing as it helps the users with the competitive social media marketing side. Zignal Labs is a good solution for quality response and accuracy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

The platform can be a little confusing to use at until you get the hang of it. Once you are used to how it is set up, it makes it a simple solution with very accurate results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zignal Lab features many settings to get your business in touch with the public and your target audience. The data is seen in different categories on the dashboard of Zignal Lab which makes it simple to see how the break downs occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

As a large, global company that generates significant amounts of coverage, it's critical for us to track traditional and social media mentions in real time. We've tried dozens of tool suites, but none have compared to Zignal. Within a few minutes of setting up an account I had access to Zignal's suite of media analysis tools, which allow me to manipulate data and view coverage trends in dozens of different ways. Most important to me, though, is Zignal's alerting system, which notifies me immediately when we're mentioned in nearly every type of media -- print, broadcast, Twitter, Reddit, LexisNexis, etc. This seems simple, but anyone who works in PR can tell you how few tool suites can actually provide comprehensive and immediate mention alerts. Critically, the system allows me to precisely filter out the noise so I only see meaningful alerts. I personally just have not seen anything that can compare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

This is quibling, but the only thing I'd add is an option to blacklist individual websites within the user interface, which would help me filter out the last remaining pieces of meaningless coverage (market research reporters, press releases, low-value news sites). That website blacklisting is possible by sending an email to Zignal, but placing that function within the user interface might streamline things just a little. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

With Zignal, I never miss a mention of our company. It's immediate and around the clock. No other tool suite has given me that level of alerting capability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Zignal has a plethora of features and widgets that make analyzing your campaigns from every angle a breeze. I love how simple it is to get the metrics I want, and that each dashboard is templated as a report which makes everything easy to scan. The Zignal team is also a pleasure to work with, and really puts in the time and effort to ensure you're getting the most out of what the platform has to offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

Dashboard management can be a challenge, in terms of ingesting the stories you care about vs irrelevant mentions. Sometimes I wish I could cherry pick the articles I want to track into a dashboard, intead of ingesting all articles and setting up combinations of filters in order to filter out mentions I don't want to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

My team is also a huge fan of the Media Quality Score, which gives us another way to measure the impact and success of our campaigns that other media monitoring platforms didn't have. The many features and intuitive interface, allows us to surface and highlight interesting metrics that we didn't otherwise before when we report on our campaigns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Saved filters/issues make it very easy to re-use for future requests. Similarly, once you have created a report design that you like you can easily reuse it for other topics of conversation, reducing the hours needed to rebuild a new report. Customization of widgets and applying filters is also a huge benefit. Newsroom and the alerts features are very helpful and make my job easier. Zignal reps and account managers are very engaged and responsive and go out of their way to help you at any time of the day with any request that you have. They feel like true team members and part of my organization, as opposed to another vendor. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

My only wish is that they enable boolean logic when creating smart filters and issues. Keywords alone aren't always easy to utilize and get granular with the topic of conversation you are interested in. When creating a filter, it would be great if you could select whether you want the additions to be applied as ANDS or ORs . Currently, they always apply as ANDs which is not always ideal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Always on monitoring for social or traditional coverage is a very tedious task that requires a lot of time. Zignal facilitates this through their alerts features which have a lot of customizations. Their pre-created widgets and ability to filter within individual widgets on an overarching report allow you to quickly understand what the conversation is about and take action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Zignal continues to reguarly expand its features. It has an incredible customer support team, ensuring that users feel helped at every step. The ability to spin up custom dashboards and alerting systems has helped our teams continue to stay informed of current conversations and news cycles, and has powered teams to deliver consistent reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

The innability to create filters using free-form boolean, as well as the lack of a wildcard boolean operator, are the biggest things currently hindering Zignal's performance. Zignal can do a lot, but requires creative combinations of existing features to "re-create" the advance features that are standard in other listening platforms. I hope they address these product concerns in future roadmaps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zignal Labs:

Zignal is an excellent tool for media and social listening if you don't require a ton of advanced bells and whistles. Their support team is incredible and always willing to meet you more than halfway. Zignal continues to expand on its feature offerings, and I'm hopeful that they'll introduce some more advanced features soon enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zignal has helped operationalize media reporting for PR teams. Without Zignal, reporting on the ROI of press coverage would be a difficult process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Zignal has dozens of widgets to help us understand and display data in various categories. We're able to look at conversations in various ways to really understand meaningful content, and the depth of the insights we're able to glean from Zignal is outstanding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

There are very few things that I dislike about Zignal. It's a very user-friendly platform and is constantly updating to improve the user experience as well as the available features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zignal Labs:

I would highly recommend Zignal to others interested in understanding and managing brand reputation via social/news media and monitoring/engaging with influencers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to closely track and monitor news and social conversation related to our company and industry. This helps us discover important individuals that we would not otherwise notice or understand, as well as discover/monitor conversations that could potentially lead to a crisis scenario. There are no unexpected issues that explode - we're able to see what's coming and either prepare or put out the fire before it starts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Zignal is able to monitor coverage/mentions across a variety of platforms that other tools can't. They also provide numerous widgets, allowing you to slice the data in various ways that suit your reporting needs. Zignal also offers a Media Quality Score, which measures the effectiveness of our communication and the quality of media coverage — making reporting back on comms impact more understandable for non-PR stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

Zignal can be a very powerful tool, but there is a significant learning curve involved. However, their customer success team is hands-on and works with you to help accomplish your goals with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a PR professional, it can be challenging to report back on the impact of your coverage/campaign. Zignal's Media Quality Score has become a key metric that our team uses for reporting, which allows us to avoid reporting on vanity metrics that don't demonstrate the real impact of our team's work (such as impressions, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

The variety of tools and widgets that can be included in reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

It can be difficult to edit the profile to add/subtract search terms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Able to provide instant analysis and essential context in a crisis; long-term tracking to show evolution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

I like that you are able to customize as needed, and can see the whole "picture" of what you want right on one dashboard. It is also nice that you are able to easily export things as needed to be able to share with your team. The alert system has also been a really helpful tool to make sure we don't miss any stories that are published. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

Sometimes it can pull in stories a little late, causing for things to potentially be missed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

I personally use the tool to help make sure that the sentiment is labeled correctly. Although sometimes it can be wrong, it is an easy fix - which in turn helps us have a better understanding of our media quality score. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zignal Labs?

Real-time insights, possibility to track different media in the same profile, possibility to see the dynamics, excellent customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zignal Labs?

There is no such thing that I specifically dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zignal Labs:

It would be good to understand well what is the major purpose of using Zignal, have in-depth consultations with Zignal super-helpful team in advance. Other than that, it is a great platform, gives you very useful insights as to how and by whom the narratives spread, which is extremely important to know these days. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zignal Labs solving and how is that benefiting you?

Media monitoring, tracking how different media outlets cover the same stories, identifying narratives. This could have been impossible to do by hand, while Zignals allows you to see both the big and micro pictures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.