Trend detection: which PR tools have it? 25 tools, dated
25 PR software companies have it. NewsWhip was first, available 2012. The latest to add it was Featured, available Oct. 14, 2026.
Updated . Launches from 2012 to Oct. 27, 2026.
What it is
Rising topics and conversations, spotted in the news and social data.
Every company that has it
By the day each first shipped it, earliest first.
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NewsWhip
Site: newswhip.com. 6 launches with it: the first, then the 5 later ones, newest first.
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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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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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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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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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BuzzSumo
Site: buzzsumo.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.
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BuzzSumo (content analyzer: most-shared content by topic or domain)
Available 2014.
BuzzSumo launched as a tool that shows which content gets the most social shares for any topic, URL or website.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: BuzzSumo (About, company history).
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Trending Now (trending content dashboards)
Available April 21, 2015.
BuzzSumo added dashboards of trending content ranked by the velocity of shares for chosen keywords and topics.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
Source: Social Media Today (21 Apr 2015).
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Cision
Site: cision.com. 3 launches with it: the first, then the 2 later ones, newest first.
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Cision Communications Cloud
Available Oct. 24, 2016.
Cision launched one cloud platform for media listening, influencer targeting and measurement across earned, paid and owned channels.
Features: Media monitoring, Media database, Trend detection.
Source: Cision press release via Cision MediaRoom (24 Oct 2016).
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Adds Spike Notifications to CisionOne Monitoring
Announced September 2026.
Alerts fire on surges in volume, sentiment or social shares, with optional AI summaries and a coverage chart in the email.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: CisionOne help center: Product Updates September 2026.
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Amplify Plan
Available Sept. 22, 2025.
PR Newswire Amplify's Plan tool surfaces story angles from real-time trending topics.
Features: Trend detection, Story ideas and angles.
Source: PR Newswire (Multivu).
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Talkwalker
Site: talkwalker.com. 4 launches with it: the first, then the 3 later ones, newest first.
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talkwalkerNow
Available Nov. 7, 2016.
A trend discovery tool that finds global trends online in real time and forecasts how fast a story will grow.
Features: Trend detection.
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Adds Lumen Agent to Hootsuite's Wisdom assistant
Announced Oct. 7, 2026.
Hootsuite users can pick a Lumen agent inside Wisdom and get social-listening answers from Quick Search over the last 7 days, with citations, without a Lumen by Talkwalker account.
Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, Trend detection, Media monitoring.
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Adds multilingual Conversation Clusters
Announced Jan. 21, 2026.
Conversation Clusters can now group posts in several languages into one cluster, to track discussions globally.
Features: Coverage analysis, Trend detection.
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Talkwalker Forecasting
Available July 5, 2022.
A predictive analytics hub that forecasts how topics, trends and campaigns will change over 90 days.
Features: Trend detection.
Sources: PCR (2022-07-05), AiThority (syndicated release).
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Glimpse
Site: meetglimpse.com. 5 launches with it: the first, then the 4 later ones, newest first.
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Glimpse: monthly newsletter of fast-growing trends
Available Dec. 5, 2018.
Glimpse launched a monthly newsletter that surfaces rapidly growing trends found by tracking words and phrases across search, media, shopping and social sites.
Features: Trend detection.
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Google Trends Supercharged 2
Available April 26, 2023.
Glimpse relaunched its Google Trends extension as version 2.
Features: Trend detection.
Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt launch page.
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Google Trends Supercharged (Chrome extension)
Available Feb. 23, 2022.
Glimpse released a browser extension that adds absolute search volume, trend discovery and alerts on top of Google Trends.
Features: Trend detection.
Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt product page (launch history).
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COVID-19 Trends
Available March 25, 2020.
Glimpse published a tracker of growth and decline in topics affected by COVID-19.
Features: Trend detection.
Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt product page (launch history).
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Glimpse 2.0 with instant alerts
Available May 29, 2019.
Glimpse added instant trend alerts to the newsletter.
Features: Trend detection.
Sources: Hunted.Space (Product Hunt launch page), Product Hunt product page (launch history).
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Exploding Topics
Site: explodingtopics.com. 3 launches with it: the first, then the 2 later ones, newest first.
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Exploding Topics (trend discovery database)
Available December 2019.
Exploding Topics launched as a free site that scans the web for rapidly growing topics, after founder Brian Dean bought the Trennd.co trend platform.
Features: Trend detection.
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TikTok Insights add-on
Available 2025.
Exploding Topics added TikTok Insights, a tool that finds trending TikTok Shop products and hashtags early.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Exploding Topics blog ('Looking Ahead to a Year of Smarter Trend-Spotting', updated 9 Feb 2026).
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Enhanced agentic capabilities
Announced 2025.
Backend upgrade using agentic capabilities to detect upcoming trends earlier and with improved sensitivity.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Exploding Topics blog.
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PublicRelay
Site: publicrelay.com.
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StormWatch
Announced Feb. 1, 2022.
AI alerts giving advance notice that an article is about to go viral on social media, for a brand or its competitors.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: PR Newswire.
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Fullintel
Site: fullintel.com.
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Fullintel Hub with PredictiveAI
Available March 31, 2022.
A real-time media monitoring platform with a human-curated feed, an automated feed and PredictiveAI, a machine learning layer that flags stories likely to trend or go viral.
Features: Coverage analysis, Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Fullintel newsroom.
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Feedly AI
Site: feedly.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.
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AI Feeds and AI Models for Market Intelligence
Available April 4, 2022.
AI Feeds track companies, strategic moves and trends using machine-learning AI Models instead of keywords.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Feedly (blog, 2022-04-04).
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Adds Startup Innovation Radar for market intelligence
Announced Oct. 29, 2025.
Finds and compares startups in any niche with natural-language search, ranked on signals such as strategic moves, patents and awards. Tables update on their own and export to PDF, CSV or newsletters.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Feedly changelog.
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Meltwater
Site: meltwater.com. 7 launches with it: the first, then the 6 later ones, newest first.
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Discovery Insight Assistant (beta)
Available Feb. 1, 2023. In beta.
AI insight assistant (beta) in the Radarly/consumer-insights product, auto-running proprietary algorithms on datasets to surface consumer/market trends analysts might miss.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Meltwater blog.
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Launches Reputation Intelligence, an add-on module for reputational risk
Announced Oct. 27, 2026.
A paid add-on that spots reputational risks as they surface, sorts them into a risk taxonomy, scores their severity and trajectory, and tracks them on a dashboard.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Meltwater press release.
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Adds an Overview tab to Trends Center
Announced July 2026.
One tab shows what is trending across TikTok, X, Instagram and News, with AI insights, post volumes and top signal cards.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Meltwater product updates (page 3).
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Adds News Trends to Trends Center
Announced July 2026.
Trends Center surfaces trending news stories with the same widgets and categories as its social trend sources, without Boolean setup.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Meltwater product updates (page 4).
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Adds Instagram Trends to Trends Center
Announced March 2026.
Trends Center tracks Instagram trends alongside TikTok and X.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Meltwater product updates (page 8).
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Turns on Spike and Sentiment Shift alerts automatically for most-viewed searches
Announced December 2025.
Users receive spike and sentiment-shift alerts for the searches they view most, with no setup.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Meltwater product updates (page 11).
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Predictive Analytics (forecast in the Mentions Trend widget)
Available October 2025.
Meltwater added a forecast of mention volume for the next two days to its Mentions Trend widget.
Features: Trend detection.
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Intelligent Relations
Site: intelligentrelations.com.
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Intelligent Relations PR Platform
Available March 13, 2023. In beta.
Self-serve PR platform for non-PR professionals that spots news trends and recommends story ideas and media outlets.
Features: Trend detection, Story ideas and angles, Journalist research.
Source: AccessWire (via Yahoo Finance).
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Agility PR
Site: agilitypr.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.
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Coverage Surge Alerts
Available May 2, 2024.
Agility emails an alert when mentions, sentiment or impressions spike.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
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Adds Coverage Surge Insights
Announced June 3, 2026.
When coverage spikes, Agility identifies the themes, sentiment and tone behind the surge.
Features: Coverage analysis, Trend detection.
Source: Agility 'New in Agility' changelog.
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Determ
Site: determ.com.
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Analytics Beta dashboards (including Conversational Trends)
Available June 4, 2024. In beta.
Pre-made PR dashboards for sentiment, opinion leaders, conversational trends and sources, shareable by public link.
Features: Trend detection, Coverage analysis, Reporting and measurement.
Source: Determ blog (What’s New: Analytics Beta, Coverage Report).
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Qwoted
Site: qwoted.com.
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Media Insights
Available Sept. 12, 2024.
Shows, for any searched topic, associated trending keywords, top publications and the journalists covering it.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Qwoted (blog).
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Pressmaster.ai
Site: pressmaster.ai.
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Trendmaster rebuilt for viral-trend prediction
Available March 17, 2025.
Pressmaster rebuilt Trendmaster, its trend detector, from the ground up and said it predicts viral trends 307 percent more accurately across 500,000+ sources.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Pressmaster.ai Newsroom (Trendmaster achieves 300% accuracy boost).
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Brandwatch
Site: brandwatch.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.
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Adds 70,000+ podcasts with transcript analysis and Trajaan search data
Announced Nov. 20, 2025.
Consumer Research coverage expands to Threads, YouTube, TikTok and LinkedIn, Trajaan search data, and 70,000+ trending podcasts with transcript analysis.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Brandwatch release (PR Newswire).
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Adds 24 months of historical data in Listen (add-on)
Announced February 2026.
Listen can now search up to two years of historical social and online conversation data, sold as an add-on.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Brandwatch Social Media Management product updates (February 2026).
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Signal AI
Site: signal-ai.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.
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Launches Risk Proximity dashboard
Announced April 20, 2026.
A dashboard that tracks the momentum of risks globally or by country, and shows exposure in three layers: direct mentions, closely linked entities and nearby countries.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
Source: Signal AI What's New post.
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Signal AI launches Risk Scanner
Available June 18, 2026.
Risk teams upload their own risk register, or let the AI suggest risks, and Risk Scanner watches global news for early signals against each risk and scores them in a risk matrix.
Features: Media monitoring, Trend detection.
Source: Signal AI press release.
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Medialyst
Site: medialyst.ai. 5 launches with it: the first, then the 4 later ones, newest first.
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newsjack-detector skill: find newsjacking opportunities (newsjack)
Available June 1, 2026.
An agent skill that watches news and reaction signals and decides which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client.
Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.
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Radar
Available Sept. 22, 2026.
Radar scans the news daily per project and flags pitch-ready opportunities, major stories, and watch-list items.
Features: Trend detection.
Sources: Medialyst Blog, Medialyst changelog (same-day post confirmed on Elvis Sun's X account).
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newsjack-triage (newsjack)
Announced June 2, 2026.
Consolidates freshness-gated newsjack signals and routes them by client standing before angle generation.
Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.
Source: GitHub.
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newsjack-detector (newsjack)
Available June 1, 2026.
Monitors current news and reaction signals and judges which are credible newsjacking opportunities for a client.
Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.
Source: GitHub.
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relevance-coarse-filter (newsjack)
Available June 1, 2026.
Cheap, high-recall first-pass filter that removes obvious junk from a detector candidate pool before expensive research.
Features: Trend detection, Agent skill.
Source: GitHub.
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Sequencr
Site: sequencr.ai.
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Narrative Intelligence Agent
Available June 10, 2026.
Clusters related articles into narratives with momentum metrics and drafts releases, posts and key messages from the selected narratives.
Features: Trend detection, Coverage analysis, Press release and content writing.
Sources: Sequencr AI, Sequencr AI (press release).
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OnePitch
Site: ai-hub.onepitch.co.
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Newsjacking Strategist
Available June 15, 2026.
Tracks breaking headlines, finds journalists covering them and drafts rapid-response angles.
Features: Trend detection, Story ideas and angles, Journalist research.
Source: OnePitch PR AI Hub.
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Pendulum
Site: pendulumintel.com.
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Landscapes trend discovery
Available June 23, 2026.
Clusters millions of social signals, including audio transcripts and video frames, into narrative maps so brands can see topics growing on niche channels before they go mainstream.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Pendulum newsroom.
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Muck Rack
Site: muckrack.com.
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Newsjacking Opportunities
Available Sept. 9, 2026.
AI feature surfacing emerging news conversations an organization could credibly join, with story context and a suggested pitch angle.
Features: Trend detection, Story ideas and angles.
Source: GlobeNewswire.
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trendJack
Site: trendjack.io.
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Jack (trend and competitor monitoring agent)
Available Sept. 25, 2026. In beta.
AI agent scans news, social, industry publications and competitors and sends trend alerts scored against brand pillars.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
Source: trendJack.
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NetBase Quid
Site: quid.com. 2 launches with it: the first, then the later one.
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Q Alerts
Available Oct. 8, 2026.
Scheduled alerts on a dataset: metric alerts fire when volume, sentiment or engagement crosses a threshold; post alerts fire when a post matches a plain-language description.
Features: Trend detection, Media monitoring.
Source: Quid blog.
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Adds average engagement to Quid Trends
Announced Oct. 22, 2026.
The Quid Trends side panel now shows average engagement for each TikTok trend next to reach, so users can see whether people acted on a trend as well as saw it.
Features: Trend detection.
Source: Quid product release.
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Featured
Site: featured.com.
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Featured Newsjacking (free)
Available Oct. 14, 2026.
A workflow per client that watches the news as often as every 15 minutes and sends breaking stories with a suggested angle by email or Slack, then finds journalists, open HARO requests, podcasts and speaking slots to pitch. It drafts a pitch but never contacts journalists.
Features: Trend detection, Story ideas and angles, Journalist research, Journalist requests, Podcast, speaking and award slots, Pitch writing.
Source: Featured press release.
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