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Meltwater

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3.7
Market Presence: PR and Media Monitoring Tools, Social Analytics Applications

Overview

Product Information on Meltwater

Updated 29th June 2026

What is Meltwater?

What is Meltwater Media Intelligence? Meltwater's media intelligence platform monitors and analyzes earned media coverage by tracking brand mentions and narratives across news, print, broadcast, podcasts, and social media, enabling faster response times to trends or feedback through real-time awareness of message penetration, emerging risks, and consumer sentiment. Who Uses Meltwater Media Intelligence? PR and comms teams use Meltwater Media Intelligence to strengthen PR strategies with accurate measurement of brand impact across media sources, and with journalist outreach capabilities within a single platform, PR efforts are streamlined for better results. Key capabilities include: Monitoring 6 million different media sources, unlimited search, real-time alerts, journalist identification, competitive benchmarking, unified shareable reporting, predictive analytics for mention forecasting, and brand-level sentiment.

Meltwater Pricing

Overall experience with Meltwater

Social Media Manager
<50M USD, Services (non-Government)
FAVORABLE

“Harnessing the Power of Audience Intelligence with Meltwater”

4.0
Jan 9, 2025
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Cultural Mediator
<50M USD, Miscellaneous
CRITICAL

“Unpacking Limitations of Meltwater in Managing Large Digital Assets”

3.0
Jan 15, 2025
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Meltwater is a company that delivers a comprehensive toolkit incorporating media, social, consumer and sales intelligence. The main business problem it helps solve is the lack of actionable insight from large data sets. They break down information overload, analyzing around 1 billion pieces of daily content and turning them into crucial insights that offer a competitive advantage. Spanning six continents with a myriad of offices, Meltwater serves a global clientele, providing trusted solutions for brands seeking impact.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2001
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
http://meltwater.com/

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Meltwater Reviews and Ratings

3.7

(4 Ratings)

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  • Cultural Mediator
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Unpacking Limitations of Meltwater in Managing Large Digital Assets

    3.0
    Jan 15, 2025
    Meltwater remains a valuable platform for audience intelligence. For digital asset management I would require a more powerful and efficient tool as far as the upload and categorization facilities as well as enhanced metadata tags.
  • Cultural Mediator
    <50M USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Unpacking Limitations of Meltwater in Managing Large Digital Assets

    3.0
    Jan 15, 2025
    Meltwater remains a valuable platform for audience intelligence. For digital asset management I would require a more powerful and efficient tool as far as the upload and categorization facilities as well as enhanced metadata tags.
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Performance of Meltwater Across Market Features

Meltwater Likes & Dislikes

Like

Meltwater identifies and captures conversations from a wide range of sources making it easy for me to shape a broad perspective on what is being said about the brand and the industry. Different aspects make it easy to track sentiment, identify personas, and monitor trends.

Like

Meltwater identifies and captures conversations from a wide range of sources making it easy for me to shape a broad perspective on what is being said about the brand and the industry. Different aspects make it easy to track sentiment, identify personas, and monitor trends.

Like

Meltwater identifies and captures conversations from a wide range of sources making it easy for me to shape a broad perspective on what is being said about the brand and the industry. Different aspects make it easy to track sentiment, identify personas, and monitor trends.

Dislike

Sharing and categorizing large media files such as images or videos is a challenge. Few metadata attributes are available to tie these resources together, making them difficult to search and classify.

Dislike

Sharing and categorizing large media files such as images or videos is a challenge. Few metadata attributes are available to tie these resources together, making them difficult to search and classify.

Dislike

Sharing and categorizing large media files such as images or videos is a challenge. Few metadata attributes are available to tie these resources together, making them difficult to search and classify.

Reviewer Insights for: Meltwater