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Trend signals

18 companies on the social monitoring map. Updated .

Trend signal tools look across social data for what is growing. Some find rising topics and pain points. Others track narratives and risk: how a story spreads, who pushes it, and whether bots or coordinated accounts are behind it.

Blackbird.AI, Cyabra and Graphika map narratives and influence campaigns. NewsWhip predicts which stories will spread, and Dataminr sends real-time event and risk alerts. Exploding Topics and Glimpse focus on emerging topics.

Trend signals

  • Alethea

    Artemis narrative-risk and threat-intelligence platform: gathers 'niche and mainstream data sources' for early warnings, Risk Radar dashboard and an agentic Takedown Agent. Platforms are not named.

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  • Blackbird.AI

    Constellation narrative intelligence platform: analyses narratives, influencers, networks and bot campaigns across social, news and dark web in 25+ languages; Constellation API; vendor says MCP-enabled integrations and agentic response.

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  • Chartmetric

    Music-industry data platform: streaming, social, playlist, chart and radio metrics for 14M+ artists from 40+ platforms (Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram). Alerts, trending TikTok sounds, Flow AI agent, REST API and an official MCP server.

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  • Cyabra

    Narrative intelligence that separates authentic from coordinated activity on X, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, with real-time narrative alerts, sentiment, deepfake and impersonation detection.

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  • Dataminr

    Real-time event, threat and risk detection from 1M+ public sources (X historically, plus news, sensors, dark web) delivered as alerts, ReGenAI live briefs and AI agents. Not keyword listening: an agent consumes Dataminr's detected-event alerts over a paid API.

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  • Exploding Topics

    Curated database of emerging topics with growth forecasting, from an algorithm plus staff review; plans $39-$249/mo. No API on the pricing page. Owned by Semrush since 2024.

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  • Glimpse

    Search-data trend platform with search volume, Channel Breakdown across TikTok/LinkedIn/Reddit/Instagram/X/YouTube/Facebook/Pinterest, trend alerts, forecasting, a Chrome extension, and a paid trend API.

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  • Graphika

    Decision intelligence platform that maps how narratives and influence move across online networks; cross-platform collection, network mapping and signal prioritization; 'Decision Agents' banner. Platforms not named.

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  • IdeaFast

    Scans chosen subreddits over 7/30/90 days, clusters recurring pain points scored 0-100 with source posts as evidence, and generates startup ideas and validation reports. Reddit only.

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  • NewsWhip

    Predictive media intelligence using public social, forum, YouTube and web-engagement signals, delivered through Spike, alerts, AI agents and an API.

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  • PainOnSocial

    Scans chosen subreddits (7/30/90 days), scores pain points by frequency and intensity, and generates AI solution ideas and weekly topic watches. Reddit only.

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  • PeakMetrics

    Narrative intelligence: detects emerging narratives, bot activity, deepfakes and coordinated campaigns across platforms, with AI summaries and alerts, API feeds and a Custom Channels API. An agent would use the feeds for narrative alerts.

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  • RedditLens

    Reddit signal research: source-linked answers, signal scores and scheduled monitors for buyer conversations, competitor complaints and niche communities; alerts when complaint volume or high-intent discussion spikes. Public Reddit signal reports for large brands.

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  • Rumor.io

    Rumor.io provides social-attention, sentiment and trend analytics for more than 15,000 assets using public conversation from social networks and forums, with REST API and MCP access.

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  • Storyful Intelligence

    Analyst-led social and video intelligence from Storyful: Discover (monitors the digital landscape for content and communities), ANNI (narrative structure) and Cosmos (influence networks), plus the Headstart research pack for agencies. Sold as a managed service; a separate Newswire sells verified user video.

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  • Trends MCP

    MCP server and API for live trend time series across 35+ sources: Google, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, X, Amazon, Wikipedia, app stores, news, Spotify podcasts, GitHub. Tools get_time_series, get_growth, get_top_trends.

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  • Trigify

    Former social-signal service for revenue teams that monitored profiles, keywords, and topics and delivered signals through integrations and an API. The standalone product was retired after the team joined HubSpot.

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  • UserConcern

    Finds product ideas from buyer complaints: pulls pain points from Reddit, YouTube, Amazon reviews, TikTok, X, Google Trends, Quora and AI answers, scores them and gives a build-or-skip verdict.

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