# Metro Monitor: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/metro-monitor/
Covers: 1993 to Aug. 22, 2023
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Metro Monitor: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/metro-monitor/, updated 2026-11-11

> Metro Monitor is on the PR software map. We record 3 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Aug. 22, 2023.

"Watching the News For You." A Birmingham, Alabama broadcast monitoring service: it records TV news from all 210 US markets and many radio stations, adds online news, social and licensed print, and delivers it through Media Monitor Pro with alerts, a cloud video recorder, clip editing, audience estimates, tone and placement, custom reports and a public newsroom. Clips also sell one at a time. Side services are a media contact database with press release tools, and DAR.fm radio recording. It has no AI features. Source: [metromonitor.com](https://www.metromonitor.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [metromonitor.com](https://www.metromonitor.com/)
- Founded: [1993](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-metro-monitor)
- Category: Media monitoring and analysis
- Status: Active
- Price: monitoring is custom-quoted ('We build custom media monitoring and media analysis solutions for our clients'); no contract is required; single video clips start at $45 each, with subscriber discounts

## On the research maps

### [The PR software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-metro-monitor)

"Watching the News For You." A Birmingham, Alabama broadcast monitoring service: it records TV news from all 210 US markets and many radio stations, adds online news, social and licensed print, and delivers it through Media Monitor Pro with alerts, a cloud video recorder, clip editing, audience estimates, tone and placement, custom reports and a public newsroom. Clips also sell one at a time. Side services are a media contact database with press release tools, and DAR.fm radio recording. It has no AI features. Source: [metromonitor.com](https://www.metromonitor.com/).

- Category: Media monitoring and analysis
- Price: monitoring is custom-quoted ('We build custom media monitoring and media analysis solutions for our clients'); no contract is required; single video clips start at $45 each, with subscriber discounts
- Covers: Discover, Search, Pitch and Measure
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed user or customer base (founded 1993; 'Thousands of clients rely on Metro Monitor' (vendor, company page); vendor acquisition pages document expansion through purchases including DAR.fm; private, no revenue disclosed)
- Founded: 1993

Sources: [metromonitor.com](https://www.metromonitor.com/) and [6 more on the map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-metro-monitor).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### DAR.fm live radio recording added

Product launch, Aug. 22, 2023. Adds scheduled recording and archiving of live radio and podcasts from stations worldwide through the DAR.fm acquisition.

Source: [Metro Monitor blog](https://metromonitor.com/blog/metro-monitor-acquires-online-radio-recording-platform-dar-fm/). From [the launch record](https://www.newsprint.com/launches/).

### Metro Monitor acquires DAR.fm

Acquisition, Aug. 22, 2023. Metro Monitor acquires DAR.fm, a platform for recording live online radio and podcasts. Terms were not disclosed.

Source: [Metro Monitor blog](https://metromonitor.com/blog/metro-monitor-acquires-online-radio-recording-platform-dar-fm/). From [the launch record](https://www.newsprint.com/launches/).

### Metro Monitor founded

Founded, 1993. Metro Monitor was founded in 1993 as a TV news monitoring and clipping service run by media and PR veterans.

Source: [Metro Monitor](https://metromonitor.com/company/). From [the launch record](https://www.newsprint.com/launches/).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology