NewsWhip: new features and launches
We confirmed 18 product launches from NewsWhip since 2012. The latest, Adds Multi-Network Digests, became available Oct. 6, 2026. We also record 3 funding rounds, 1 acquisition and 1 new company.
Updated . Launches from April 2011 to Oct. 6, 2026.
NewsWhip, owned by Sprout Social, sells predictive story detection and real-time media monitoring to teams that need to see stories early. Its Spike product combines web and social feeds with AI agents that send alerts. NewsWhip Analytics holds years of web and social engagement data for trend and campaign analysis.
- Site
- newswhip.com
- Founded
- 2011
- Category
- Media monitoring and analysis
- Status
- Active
- Price
- no published price; demo and contact only
Every dated launch, newest first
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Adds Multi-Network Digests
Available Oct. 6, 2026.
One digest email can now combine top content, totals, themes and period-over-period change from several networks instead of one email per network.
Features: Media monitoring, Reporting and measurement.
Source: NewsWhip Release Notes 2026.
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Adds Bluesky engagement to article scoring
Available June 26, 2026.
Article scores, timelines, leaderboards, alerts and dashboards now reflect Bluesky interactions alongside Facebook, X and Reddit.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: NewsWhip Release Notes 2026.
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Launches AI Dashboard Builder
Available June 18, 2026.
Users describe what they want to monitor in plain language and the AI picks sources, filters and searches to build an editable dashboard.
Features: Media monitoring, Reporting and measurement.
Source: NewsWhip Release Notes 2026.
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Adds Reddit engagement to article scoring
Available May 13, 2026.
NewsWhip article scores and predictions now include Reddit engagement, to surface community-driven stories early.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: NewsWhip Release Notes 2026.
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Adds Bluesky monitoring to NewsWhip
Available March 30, 2026.
Users can track Bluesky accounts and hashtags, see engagement, include Bluesky posts in alerts, reports and exports, and add a Bluesky dashboard widget.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: NewsWhip Release Notes 2026.
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Trellis Monitoring Agent
Available Feb. 18, 2026.
Always-on agent that surfaces emerging stories early with analyst-quality updates.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring, AI agents.
Source: GlobeNewswire (Sprout Social).
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Social Alerts
Available Oct. 16, 2025.
NewsWhip launched Social Alerts, one alerting flow for real-time alerts and digests across Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube and web articles.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: NewsWhip blog (16 Oct 2025).
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Keyword Assistant
Announced Oct. 16, 2025.
Turns a short description into a complete Boolean query with brand variations and multi-language terms.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: NewsWhip blog.
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Acquired by Sprout Social
Announced July 30, 2025.
Sprout Social acquires NewsWhip for $55 million cash plus up to $10 million in earnouts; the NewsWhip team joins Sprout Social.
Source: NewsWhip blog.
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AI Agent
Announced June 12, 2025.
Real-time AI agent that scans global media, decides relevance, and delivers structured alerts on emerging brand risk.
Features: AI agents.
Source: NewsWhip.
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Top Themes (AI summaries of the most engaged coverage)
Available Nov. 13, 2024.
NewsWhip launched Top Themes, AI summaries that name the main themes in the most engaged articles, with in-line citations.
Features: Coverage analysis.
Source: NewsWhip blog (13 Nov 2024).
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Generative AI + quantified data = predictive insights
Announced Sept. 19, 2024.
NewsWhip says it will increasingly use AI 'as an agent for users' and is exploring partnerships with AI providers.
Source: NewsWhip blog.
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Report Builder
Available March 19, 2024.
NewsWhip launched Report Builder, which turns dashboards into executive reports that can be exported to PDF or PowerPoint.
Features: Reporting and measurement.
Source: NewsWhip blog (19 Mar 2024).
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AI Digest
Announced Nov. 15, 2023.
GPT-powered email digest that summarizes top articles into themes and an executive summary for a monitored topic.
Features: Coverage analysis.
Source: NewsWhip.
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$13M growth funding from AshGrove Capital
Announced Feb. 14, 2023.
NewsWhip secures $13 million from AshGrove Capital to develop its next-generation media monitoring platform.
Source: PR Newswire.
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Crisis Dashboard and Timeline
Available October 2020.
NewsWhip added a Crisis Dashboard with a Timeline widget that plots public interest and media interest together.
Features: Media monitoring.
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Series A funding
Announced Feb. 15, 2017.
NewsWhip announces a $6.4 million Series A led by Tribal Ventures, with the Associated Press and Asahi Shimbun participating.
Source: NewsWhip blog.
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NewsWhip Analytics (beta)
Available Feb. 2, 2017. In beta.
NewsWhip opened its historical database of social engagement with a beta product for analyzing coverage, authors and share of voice.
Features: Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.
Source: NewsWhip blog (2 Feb 2017).
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Spike: Predict Viral Stories
Available Aug. 31, 2016.
Sorts stories by predicted social interactions so PR teams can find stories to respond to.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: NewsWhip blog (New in Spike: Predict Viral Stories, 2016-08-31).
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Spike Alerts (email alerts)
Available May 1, 2013.
NewsWhip added email alerts to Spike so journalists get the stories gaining most traction on social in their niche.
Features: Media monitoring.
Source: Journalism.co.uk (1 May 2013).
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Seed funding
Announced 2013.
NewsWhip raises a €825,000 seed round from AIB Seed Capital Fund, Enterprise Ireland and angel investors.
Source: Wikipedia.
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NewsWhip Spike
Available 2012.
NewsWhip launched Spike, a dashboard for newsrooms that ranks stories by social engagement to show what is trending or about to trend.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
Sources: Journalism.co.uk (1 May 2013), Wikipedia.
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NewsWhip founded
Announced April 2011.
Paul Quigley and Andrew Mullaney found NewsWhip in Dublin to track story momentum with social data.
Source: Wikipedia.
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