# Media monitoring software for PR teams compared

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/media-monitoring/
Updated: 2026-11-05
Category: Media monitoring and analysis
Map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/

37 companies on the PR software map.

Media monitoring tools find the coverage. They watch news sites, print, TV, radio, podcasts and social posts for a brand or topic, then send alerts, clips and summaries. Many add analysis on top, such as sentiment, share of voice and the stories that are growing.

The list runs from news databases such as Factiva and LexisNexis Newsdesk to broadcast services such as TVEyes and Critical Mention. Newer tools use AI agents. Cortex Intelligence runs four AI agents, including ones for monitoring and reports, and PeakMetrics flags bot activity and deepfakes.

[Companies that offer media monitoring](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/monitoring-and-suites/) shows which media monitoring tools and PR suites offer an API, an MCP server, an agent skill or a plugin, and what each has shipped. Its data: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/monitoring-and-suites.json

## Media monitoring and analysis

- [Factiva (Dow Jones)](https://www.dowjones.com/professional/factiva): "Global news and data monitoring, now with GenAI." Dow Jones's business news and company data platform, with 33,000 sources in 33 languages from 200 countries. Comms teams use it to track brand and executive coverage and prepare for crises; it adds an AI assistant and Smart Summary (cited GenAI summaries from licensed sources), curated newsletters run by Dow Jones curation staff, feeds and APIs, and a licensed-content feed for other companies' AI tools. Sales-led; no public price. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-factiva-dow-jones
- [LexisNexis Newsdesk](https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/newsdesk.page): "News & social media monitoring." Nexis Newsdesk is a media monitoring and analytics service with 120K+ news sources, 2 million social feeds and about 4 million items added a day, custom alerts, sentiment and share-of-voice dashboards and embeddable charts. It is sold next to Nexis Media Contacts (a journalist and influencer database with pitching) and Nexis Newswire (press release distribution with ad amplification) on one media intelligence price page. Its own FAQ says Newsdesk has no AI features today; AI is on the separate Nexis+ AI product. Continues Moreover's Newsdesk, bought by LexisNexis in October 2014. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-lexisnexis-newsdesk
- [Signal AI](https://www.signal-ai.com/): Reputation and risk intelligence for CCOs and CROs, 800+ enterprises; bought Memo for publisher-direct readership data. Read for scope, sits at the edge of this pipeline. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-signal-ai
- [aclipp](https://aclipp.com/en): "Make your PR count." PR analytics workspace: clippings from monitoring feeds, imports and its own monitoring, AI relevance checks and AI tag/metric prefill, sentiment, dashboards and white-label reports, plus an AI Visibility (GEO) module across nine AI assistants. API and MCP server in beta. Founder-led, built in Ingolstadt, Germany; DACH agencies and brands. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-aclipp
- [Brand24](https://brand24.com/): Monitoring across 25M sources in 108 languages, with sentiment, share-of-voice reporting and AI visibility tracking (Chatbeat). Not cheap in absolute terms: the entry tier is $199/mo billed annually ($249 monthly). On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-brand24
- [Brandwatch](https://www.brandwatch.com/): Social listening and consumer intelligence, and one of two homes for Trajaan: it sells the same GenAI-citation engine that powers CisionOne's AI Visibility Dashboard. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-brandwatch
- [BuzzSumo](https://buzzsumo.com/): Trending-content scores (the original trendjacking input), now bundled with a 700K-journalist media database, an AI pitching tool and coverage reports. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-buzzsumo
- [Clipbook](https://www.clipbook.com/): "AI research and analysis for communications and corporate affairs." An AI-native media and policy monitoring platform that tracks over 1 million sources across news, TV, radio, social, podcasts, newsletters and policy, then ranks what matters and builds tailored reports, real-time alerts, share of voice, sentiment and earned media value analytics, and a searchable archive of the coverage it gathers. Sold to PR, communications and public affairs teams and agencies, including Weber Shandwick and the State of Delaware. It does not sell a journalist database, pitching or distribution. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-clipbook
- [Commetric](https://commetric.com/): "We protect and grow corporate value through media intelligence." A London media intelligence and measurement firm that sells five analyst-backed solutions: Monitoring (AI collection with human filtering across news, social and broadcast), Measuring (campaign, reputation and message analysis, benchmarking), Mapping (stakeholder and influence networks), GEO Analytics (how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity describe a brand and which sources shape it) and Risk Intelligence, plus the SieraPlex enterprise platform. Sold through a team, not self-serve. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-commetric
- [Critical Mention](https://www.criticalmention.com/): "A Fast, Reliable Earned Media Suite You Can Trust." A New York media monitoring service, sold today as Critical Mention by Onclusive: it records more than 2,500 TV and radio stations, with clips from every Nielsen market in the US, and adds online news, paywalled and print sources, podcasts and social media, with real-time alerts, the Wordplay clip editor, sentiment, share of voice and publicity value in branded reports, and an API. A media contact database of millions of records builds and exports pitching lists. Its AI Brand Visibility page sells tracking of how ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude and Perplexity describe a brand and which sources they cite. It ran its own capture network and sold broadcast feeds to other platforms; Onclusive bought it in May 2022. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-critical-mention
- [Delve](https://delve.news/): "Delve turns big questions into answers." A media intelligence platform for PR agencies, in-house and enterprise comms teams, and investor comms, sold by Marker (Next 15 Group). It pulls coverage in real time from news, print, broadcast, 80,000+ podcasts with transcripts, X, Bluesky and newsletters, then analyzes it against your key messages, spokespeople and competitors (message pull-through, sentiment, share of voice) and drafts coverage reports, executive briefs, angles and pitches. A Delve Connector lets AI tools query the coverage. It has no wire and no journalist database today. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-delve
- [Determ](https://www.determ.com/): AI media monitoring and social listening for PR and communications teams. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-determ
- [Fullintel](https://fullintel.com/): "Smarter Media Intelligence: Customized AI. Expert Insights." Media monitoring and analysis from the Fullintel Hub platform with human analysts behind it: coverage across online, print, broadcast, podcasts and social, real-time alerts, custom dashboards, AI newsletters with AI overviews, PredictiveAI (flags stories likely to trend), the MATT AI assistant, GEO Intelligence (which outlets AI engines cite), plus analyst-written executive news briefings, strategic media analysis reports and 24/7 crisis monitoring. Sold by demo. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-fullintel
- [Metro Monitor](https://www.metromonitor.com/): "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. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-metro-monitor
- [NewsWhip](https://www.newswhip.com/): Predictive story detection (Spike) and real-time monitoring agents; owned by Sprout Social since July 2025. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-newswhip
- [PublicRelay](https://www.publicrelay.com/): Human-analyst media measurement for enterprise comms teams. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-publicrelay
- [SnapStream](https://www.snapstream.com/): "Record anything. Search everything. Clip & Share instantly." Live TV and video capture platform from Houston, Texas: it records broadcast, cable, streaming and government feeds, indexes captions and transcripts for keyword search, and lets teams clip and share moments. It calls itself 'the all-in-one media monitoring and clipping platform trusted by media, public affairs, and communications teams', with use cases for brand reputation monitoring, crisis communication and coverage archives. Unlimited users. Broadcast and video only: no print, online or social monitoring, no AI features named. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-snapstream
- [Talkwalker](https://www.talkwalker.com/): Hootsuite-owned enterprise social listening and media monitoring; renamed Lumen by Talkwalker by Hootsuite in June 2026. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-talkwalker
- [Truescope](https://truescope.com/): "Media intelligence for PR and comms who need to know first." An Australian media monitoring and intelligence service that covers broadcast, print, online, podcasts and social media (including TikTok, Telegram, WeChat and Weibo) in 17 languages, with a media inbox, real-time and spike alerts, dashboards with sentence-level sentiment, share of voice and branded reports. Truescope AI adds two AI teammates: Assistant summarises coverage and writes spike-alert summaries, and Analyst is a multi-agent analyst that turns a question into a cited report from 70+ templates. Also an API and MCP access. Founded in 2019 by John Croll and Michael Bade, who built Media Monitors into Isentia; it has 600+ clients across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and North America. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-truescope
- [TVEyes](https://www.tveyes.com/): "Media monitoring for TV, Radio, Podcasts and Online Video." A spoken-word monitoring service: it captures broadcast TV and radio, 73,000+ podcasts and 16,000+ online video channels, transcribes the speech and alerts you in under a minute when your terms are spoken. Its Insight platform, launched in June 2025, adds clips, advanced search strings, Nielsen-powered viewership analytics, paid versus earned ad filtering, exportable reports and direct contact information for podcast hosts. Archive+ (September 2026) opens nearly two decades of broadcast and podcast transcripts for research, and an API serves partners. Its stated AI uses are query validation, machine-learning Smart Alerts for coverage spikes and AI report summarization. It does not sell a journalist database, pitching or distribution. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-tveyes
- [UNICEPTA](https://unicepta.com/): "Human-Led. AI-Fed." A Cologne media intelligence firm, founded in 1996 and owned by Stagwell since December 2024, that monitors 460+ million sources across print, online, broadcast and social media with AI, then has industry analyst teams validate and enrich the results around the clock. It sells media monitoring with daily press reviews, real-time alerting, media analysis and benchmarking with strategic consulting, a media intelligence platform with dashboards, sentiment, influencer identification and an optional journalist database, a data stream API, a GEO package (the GEOPulse platform plus consulting) for how AI assistants describe a brand, and a Microsoft 365 Copilot integration. 550+ customers, including two thirds of the DAX-40. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-unicepta
- [Wizikey](https://wizikey.com/): "The Reputation Intelligence Platform." A media monitoring and PR platform from India, now sold worldwide: monitoring of news, print, broadcast, podcasts, social and AI answers in 100+ countries, a single News Score for reputation with competitor benchmarks and AI-answer visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, Engage outreach with a media database of over a million journalists and open and reply tracking, smart daily alerts, and Imara AI video briefings. An Ask Wizikey MCP server connects it to ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot. Pricing is published with unlimited users on every plan. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-wizikey
- [Cortex Intelligence](https://www.cortex-intelligence.com/brand): "Made for humans, powered by AI." Cortex Brand is a communication-intelligence platform for corporate comms teams in Brazil: four AI agents (Objectives & Metrics, Monitoring, Analysis, Report) monitor 7.3 million articles a month across online, print, radio, TV and social, classify by sentiment and relevance, flag crises, map promoter and detractor journalists, and report PR ROI against 70+ indicators, with dedicated analysts. Part of a larger SoftBank-backed GTM-intelligence company. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-cortex-intelligence
- [Handraise](https://www.handraise.com/): "From Media Monitoring to Narrative Intelligence." An enterprise platform that tracks news, broadcast, podcast and social coverage with AI-built newsfeeds (no Boolean), groups articles into narrative clusters with brand-centric sentiment, publication tiers and dynamic share of voice, and tests how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and others describe and cite the brand across repeated model runs. It adds risk alerts, recommended actions (amplify, clarify, counter, create), daily briefings, board-ready reports and Herald, a chat assistant that answers questions with a sourced briefing. It has no media database and no pitching tools. Built by the founder of TrendKite. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-handraise
- [Kinetiq](https://kinetiq.tv/): "Pushing the Boundaries of TV Intelligence." A media intelligence platform that detects brand mentions, ads and sponsorships across TV, radio, podcasts and digital, with an Earned Media Intelligence module for PR teams: monitoring of earned coverage, a media contact database of 1+ million contacts with list building and email outreach, and PR measurement and crisis response. It also tracks video news releases and watermarked broadcast content. No AI pitch or release writing is on the PR pages. Formed in 2019 from iQ Media and 4C's Teletrax. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-kinetiq
- [NetBase Quid](https://www.quid.com/): "Act Before the Market Moves." Consumer and market intelligence platform, now branded Quid (formed by the January 2020 merger of NetBase and Quid), that ingests social, forum, review, news, broadcast, podcast, search and patent data. It has a Communications solution for PR teams (crisis alerts, sentiment and share of voice), Q Agents that return AI briefs (media coverage analysis, news clippings, brand sentiment, brand and product AI-answer tracking), Q Alerts, an Ask Q chat assistant and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Sold on outcomes, not seats. It is mainly a consumer and market research tool; PR is one of several roles it names. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-netbase-quid
- [PeakMetrics](https://www.peakmetrics.com/): "See Through the Manipulated Internet." A narrative intelligence platform that monitors news, social, broadcast, podcasts and the open web, flags emerging narratives, bot and coordinated activity and deepfakes, and answers why a narrative is spreading and who drives it, with LLM-powered Smart Categories, risk and velocity alerts, rapid response briefings and brand fact centers. AI Perceptions, launched September 2026, tracks how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok and Perplexity describe a brand next to its news and social data. Sold to enterprises, agencies and government, with a dedicated solutions consultant per customer; it has an MCP server for ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-peakmetrics
- [Pendulum](https://www.pendulumintel.com/): "AI-Powered Social Intelligence Built For Your Brand." Agentic social listening for brand and comms teams that reads video, audio, images and text across 25+ social channels and 75+ languages, with Ask Pendulum (a chat assistant), Landscapes (narrative and trend maps), Monitoring Agents that route alerts to Slack or Teams, Reporting Agents that write clip reports, and an Actions Agent that drafts a holding statement from a team's own playbook. Born as a harmful-narrative detection tool; built with Burson (H+K Sonar). It does not cover news sites or journalist outreach as its own product. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-pendulum
- [Feedly AI](https://feedly.com/market-intelligence): Market-intelligence platform (AI feeds, Emerging Trends Dashboard) that a PR team can use as a newsjacking input; feedly.com's default homepage now leads with threat intelligence, and this product sits at /market-intelligence. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-feedly-ai
- [HeyJared](https://www.heyjared.ai/): "Know what's being said. Shape what's next." Searches 88M+ podcast episodes, news stories, newsletter issues and YouTube videos; matches reporters and podcasts, tracks AI visibility and drafts pitches. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-heyjared
- [News Exposure](https://www.newsexposure.com/): "Comprehensive Media Monitoring Company." A Chicago media monitoring firm that records TV and radio and tracks print, online and social media, then sells clips, human-vetted results, do-it-yourself analytics (by source, city, tone, placement and prominence), executive news briefings and done-for-you research and reports. A permanent HD television archive is its stated niche, and it has Spanish-language coverage. A 1.5 million-contact media database supports press release distribution and pitches. It has no AI features. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-news-exposure
- [Newsbox](https://newsbox.com/): "Stop collecting information. Start using it." A communications intelligence workspace from Connectus: it watches topics, companies and competitors across hundreds of news feeds, scores them with AI, and sends daily or scheduled briefs; ranks outlets and recent bylines by coverage; runs a paid press release newsroom; and exposes an MCP server to AI assistants. Its AI Visibility Monitor runs buyer-intent prompts through live answer engines, measures brand mentions, rank, sentiment and competitor share, and shows which recent press hits the answers cite. The product began as PRSafe in 2006 and was rebuilt with AI in 2025. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-newsbox
- [Newslit](https://newslit.co/): "Media monitoring made simple." A self-serve news monitoring tool: pick topics, competitors or brands, and it tracks over 100K media sources and social signals into personalised news briefs sent by email, shown in a dashboard or pushed to Slack, Zapier and Hootsuite, plus a news search API. Newslit Social builds a similar digest from your Twitter network. It has no media database, no outreach and no sentiment or AI features on the pages read. Its 2019 site named PR and communications professionals as the first of four user groups; today's site names none. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-newslit
- [PigPR](https://pigpr.com/): "We watch the internet. Draft the replies. Pitch the press." Reputation monitoring for agencies across 20 sources (reviews, news, Reddit, social, Wikipedia, Weibo, entertainment trade press) with sentiment, spike alerts, AI-drafted review replies that wait for approval, press contacts pulled from bylines, AI pitch drafts and white-label weekly reports. Checks weekly what six AI engines and Google AI Overviews say about each client. Leans toward review and reputation management; also sells a human digital-PR placement service. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-pigpr
- [Podscan](https://podscan.fm/): Podcast monitoring and search across 4.9M+ shows: mention alerts within ~10 minutes, plus show research with host contacts for guest pitching. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-podscan
- [Sequencr](https://www.sequencr.ai/): "An AI-native communications intelligence platform that uses agents, multi-signal monitoring, narrative analysis, and private models." Sequencr's Stratum runs agents for media and social monitoring, narrative clustering, crisis and issue early warning, influencer and journalist recommendations and research, then drafts releases, memos and executive briefings from what it finds. Priced by monthly Agent Hours, not seats; runs on private models. The company also sells AI consulting, training and a GEO service. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-sequencr
- [Squire](https://squire.news/): "Counsel before the day begins." An AI service that reads hundreds of news sources overnight against a mandate you set and emails one brief per client each morning: what happened, what it means and what to do first, with up to 20 clips, a choice of nine sections and every source linked. Briefs can be reviewed and edited before they reach the client, and carry the sender's branding on the Council plan. Sold to executive teams, agencies and advisors, and public affairs teams; its two named founding partners are a PR and public affairs firm and a lobbying and communications firm. Operated by a sole proprietor, Bailey Meyers; Anthropic's Claude models write the briefs. It does not sell a media database, pitching or distribution. On the map: https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#co-squire

## Other categories

- [Press release distribution and newsrooms](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/press-release-distribution.md): 40 companies.
- [Media monitoring and analysis](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/media-monitoring.md): 37 companies. (this page)
- [AI visibility](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/ai-visibility.md): 19 companies.
- [AI PR assistants and agents](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/ai-pr-assistants.md): 18 companies.
- [Journalist requests and relationships](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/journalist-requests.md): 16 companies.
- [Media databases and outreach](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/media-databases.md): 15 companies.
- [PR suites](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/pr-suites.md): 13 companies.
- [Podcast booking](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/podcast-booking.md): 13 companies.
- [Measurement and reporting](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/pr-measurement.md): 6 companies.
- [Trends and newsjacking](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/trends-and-newsjacking.md): 4 companies.

## The full map

[The PR software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/pr-software/#cat-monitoring): all 181 companies in 10 categories, open at this one.