Brand24
Tracks brand/keyword mentions across social media, news, blogs, forums, podcasts, and review sites, then scores sentiment and surfaces coverage spikes and influencer reach.
Monitor social and community mentions
Watch social, forum, community and news surfaces for a keyword, brand or competitor and alert on matches.
12 listings. Catalog build: 2026-10-17.
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Compare the tools below against the input you have, the output you need, and the systems you already use. This list includes tools with and without MCP support.
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Questions this page helps you explore
- Alert me when someone mentions us on reddit
- Monitor social mentions
- Track brand mentions
- Who is talking about my competitor
- Keyword alerts across social
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Read this solution shortlist as JSONBrandwatch
Enterprise consumer-intelligence and social-listening suite spanning social media management, influencer marketing, search/GenAI-mention monitoring, and analyst-backed media intelligence.
BuzzSumo
Researches top-performing content and social engagement by topic, tracks brand/competitor mentions, and surfaces influencers, built on a large historical index of article and social-share data.
Common Room
Aggregates buyer/community engagement signals - Slack, Discord, GitHub activity (stars, PRs, issues), product usage, and third-party intent data (Bombora integration) - across a company's community/product channels into unified contact and organization profiles.
Common Room
See the full RESEARCHED entry in 05-signals-intent-abm.md (Common Room is filed there as its canonical home in this directory) - aggregates Slack, Discord, GitHub, product-usage, and third-party intent signals into unified contact/organization profiles.
F5Bot
Monitors Reddit, Hacker News, and Lobsters for keyword mentions and sends email alerts within minutes of a match.
Intently (getintently.com)
Scrapes LinkedIn in real time (without an official API or user accounts) to extract profile/company data, competitor followers, and post reactions/comments as engagement signals.
Meltwater
Media-intelligence and social-listening platform that consolidates news coverage, social conversations, and AI-generated content into prioritized alerts and workflows for PR, comms, and marketing teams.
Mention
Monitors web and social mentions across a claimed 1 billion+ sources in real time, layering sentiment/reach analytics and a unified social inbox on top of the monitoring feed.
Syften
Monitors Reddit, Hacker News, X/Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, GitHub, YouTube, Slack communities, and general web/forum sources for keyword mentions, delivering alerts via email, Slack, RSS, webhook, or API.
Talkwalker (rebranded: Lumen by Talkwalker)
Enterprise social-listening and media-monitoring platform tracking social, digital, and AI-channel conversations for brand benchmarking and trend/consumer-insight detection.
Trigify (Trigify.io)
Monitors LinkedIn, X/Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and podcasts for keyword mentions and engagement (likes, comments, shares, job changes), mapping who engaged with that content into an "engagement graph" filtered by ICP criteria.