Brandwatch
Brandwatch
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What is Brandwatch?
Brandwatch, from Cision (acquired February 2021) is an enterprise social intelligence platform that is designed to allow brands to listen and analyze online conversation to extract meaningful insights, inform their business decisions and understand more about the return on their marketing spend.
Brandwatch Features
- Supported: Proprietary listening technology providing quality data coverage
- Supported: The most advanced, customizable charting and analysis functionality available
- Supported: Unlimited users and a range of distrubution, sharing and permissions options
- Supported: Flexible dashboards with over 25 different components
- Supported: 30+ fully-supported languages, including Topics and sentiment extraction
- Supported: Sophisticated demographic and theme analysis
- Supported: Owned Twitter and Facebook channel tools
- Supported: Automated, intelligent and custom alerting features
- Supported: Bulk processing and automation of categorization and tagging
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Brandwatch Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 1% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 9% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 20% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 70% |
Brandwatch Technical Details
Deployment Types | SaaS |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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The most common users of Brandwatch are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Marketing & Advertising industry.
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January 27, 2022
A very professional tool that helps many social media teams
It helps us a lot in monitoring the brand on social networks, as well as getting to know our target audiences better. It is a very professional tool that allows a great depth of analysis and at a commercial level it is useful to better target messages and content strategies on social channels.It allows you to confuse queries in a simple and highly customizable way.
- Improve the customer experience
- The connection via API is very good
- Its flexibility and scalability adapts to all types of organizations
- The analysis and monitoring of influencers
- Sentiment analysis using AI
- Higher level of audience data filtering
December 10, 2021
Brandwatch is certainly the most dynamic and well supported Social Insight platform available today
We use Brandwatch Analytics as the core technology for our research into conversation around brands and entertainment properties and personalities. This involves utilising Brandwatch Analytics as a platform more than a tool, an option that would not be possible using any other social listening technology.
- Highly programmable setup allows for deep categorisation of social and online conversation data.
- Useful and clear UI that allows easy access to granular reporting.
- Highly responsive and knowledge support and account management teams.
- Company is clearly committed to evolving their platform for their clients as well as being responsive to their recommendations.
- The UI sometimes struggles with larger categorisation sets but this can be worked around by exporting to Excel and creating your own graphs there.
November 10, 2021
Very pleased with Brandwatch
In an educational environment, I teach a Social Media course in which we use Brandwatch to track salient topics of interest to our projects. We currently have a query running capturing information about our academic competitors. In our class sessions students present weekly findings and discuss the results of the week.
In a research environment, I use Brandwatch to collect textual data I use in academic publications. I use the basic Dashboards offered in Brandwatch and then extract the textual data for use in SAS Text Miner. I have had excellent success with this combination of software tools.
In a research environment, I use Brandwatch to collect textual data I use in academic publications. I use the basic Dashboards offered in Brandwatch and then extract the textual data for use in SAS Text Miner. I have had excellent success with this combination of software tools.
- Filters textual data
- provides excellent options in terms of dashboards
- very efficient and timely data downloads
- quick response from the support team
- I would like to have larger data downloads per day. Our unit is limited to 50K lines of data per day.
- I would like to see a more comprehensive historical data pull
November 06, 2021
Crimson Hexagon User's Review
It's used by a single department - social media monitoring team. It solves the issue of monitoring and understanding social media buzz and sentiment around keywords and topics of interest.
We typically use the tool to identify sentiment and related keywords associated with a brand during and after campaigns that are run.
- Crimson is a pioneer in applying the supervised machine learning algorithms for sentiment classification. Hence the sentiment engine is robust.
- I personally like the topic wheels that show the overarching topics and sub topics in an easy to understand wheel representation.
- I also like the word associations network graph that it provides for top keywords. Very informative and engaging graph.
- Currently the sentiment classifier has a minimum number of mentions that need to be tagged initially for training the tool on the desired classification. But this is tedious when we have lots of sentiment or categories. For ad hoc analysis use, we need a simpler system to see basic sentiment analysis.
- I suggest that the creation and duplication of dashboards are not geared for repeated usage over time. It is not flexible enough to be shared to other users etc.
- Data sources need to be expanded from the current offering.
The Brandwatch tool is used to generate consumer insights using the social data for clients, as a service company we provide listening service to clients using the Brandwatch tool. The tool is majorly used by the research and HR department for the client as well and employee hiring purposes. The features and UI helps us to understand the consumer behaviors and provide the same insight to clients.
- It helps to create Consumer Insight report
- It helps to create Influencer Analysis report
- It helps to create Campaign Analysis report and see the performance of the campaign
- Image recognition features
- Speech Analysis features
- Attractive wordcloud
July 10, 2020
Brandwatch/Crimson Hexagon is a powerhouse
We are engaging with Brandwatch on two fronts. First, to inform us globally on our industry while also informing us on various niches. That information allows us to be smarter and also surprise our internal and external clients with business-relevant information. Secondly, we use it as insurance. Are there conversations going on that we need to know about instantly.
- Media coverage database.
- On-ramping from zero to action.
- Reporting.
- More reporting template options.
- More alerting options.
April 01, 2020
Brandwatch Consumer Research is the GO TO platform for improving your marketing strategy
Initially a listening tool for our social team to better understand the audiences they could tap into, Brandwatch Consumer Research eventually became a staple for tracking and reporting for our Influencer, Product Marketing, Customer Service, and Performance Marketing teams. For the social teams, it became both an analytics tool and a means to track and rapidly implement consumer feedback on social marketing campaigns, promoting social channel growth and an increase in positive sentiment for the brand across various social channels. Our Influencer team was able to track and report on the interactions they got from various signed personalities while monitoring brand mentions across the web, allowing them to find and reach out to new potential influencers for the brand. The Product and Performance marketing teams made great use of all the data provided by various dashboards built within the platform to track and report live campaigns, allowing them to implement changes and improvements to future campaigns faster. The Customer Service team and Product Marketing team both highly benefited from Brandwatch's sentiment tracking tools, allowing both teams to track and report on key topics across multiple KPIs.
- Segmentation
- High Customization
- Huge Data Source
- Access to Historic Data
- Onboarding
- Exporting Dashboards
- Automated Exports
December 23, 2019
Comprehensive and very attractive reporting...maybe too fiddly.
Currently used as the main reporting tool for board and senior leaders on understanding social media commentary and exposure the business has. Helping to support some UR and thematic research, Brandwatch helps to steer high level product design strategies and communications direction when talking about overall brand, overall user propensity to purchase.
- Very detailed in its thematic and keyword based searches.
- The ability to crease multiple levels to predefined filtering allows for cleaner results.
- Too comprehensive means it is more of a reporting tool than an investigations tool.
- The filtering defaults are often misused to predefine keyword filtering... how can we be sure users always use the same keywords.
November 07, 2019
Drive real value and insights with Brandwatch
Brandwatch is the perfect listening tool that gives users the best control over data analysis in a user-friendly and simple way. Compared to other platforms that I've viewed and/or used over the past five years, they are the most progressive and can be classed as thought leaders within the social media and listening analytics field.
It is true they can be a little pricey, yet it is all worth it, especially for advanced users.
It is true they can be a little pricey, yet it is all worth it, especially for advanced users.
- Tagging and categorizing.
- Data charting, filtering, and analysis.
- Integration of external data sources on analytics platform.
November 05, 2019
Brandwatch has a great impact on my company
We are using it for our website and social media. The company mainly uses it in our Marketing Department so we can get raw and generic data to better grow our company.
- Search
- Professional
- Reach
- None
October 30, 2019
Good For Top Level Social Listening
We currently use Brandwatch for competitive analysis and market research for new business pitches. It is mainly used by our digital department but provides insights used by our entire organization.
- Sentiment analysis.
- Social mentions.
- Social influencers.
- Pulling historical information.
- Pulling information evenly across online channels.
- Identifying negative comments vs positive comments.
October 16, 2019
A great supplementary social listening tool!
We are using it as a social media listening tool to hone in on conversations, overlapping consumer interests, and social performance tools. We didn't have a social media tool in the past, and it's nice to have insights into the social media landscape in a variety of industries.
- Their UI is easy to understand.
- Their data gets updated in real-time.
- The ability to provide detailed, analytical reports is nice in a budding social media landscape.
- It's not all-encompassing. In other words, there aren't a whole lot of insights from our PR hits and how they perform on social.
October 15, 2019
Wouldn't recommend it
Across our company, it was mostly used in marketing and social care (who was responsible for the brand listening within our organization).
The main uses for Brandwatch within our company were as follows:
The main uses for Brandwatch within our company were as follows:
- Monthly social channel performance reporting.
- Brand protection.
- Campaign reporting (mainly hashtag tracking).
- Announcement reporting.
- Social listening.
- Campaign reporting.
- Manipulation of the data (visually).
- The learning curve is steep.
- Price tag.
- Wasn't able to pull all the metrics our organization needed.
October 12, 2019
Brandwatch is worth every penny!
Brandwatch is used by our media and data team at my company. But reports and findings generated through Brandwatch are shared with our entire office and externally to clients.
Some of the main areas we use Brandwatch for are: trend tracking, organic follower tracking (FB, IG, and TW), estimating share of voice, Twitter custom audiences using the Audiences tool, sentiment tracking, Brand health monitoring, competitor conversation tracking.
Some of the main areas we use Brandwatch for are: trend tracking, organic follower tracking (FB, IG, and TW), estimating share of voice, Twitter custom audiences using the Audiences tool, sentiment tracking, Brand health monitoring, competitor conversation tracking.
- Clean, beautiful visuals that can be easily incorporated into reports to be used internally and externally.
- Customization-- anywhere from the queries you create to adjusting individual report widget/components this tool is very flexible.
- Excellent Customer Service and support. My Brandwatch rep is always open to hearing from me for questions and often reaches out to me to check in on my status or see if I would like to participate in beta programs.
- Constant innovation. It seems like Brandwatch is constantly updating and adding improvements to their platform--especially with their 2019 acquisition of Crimson Hexagon.
- Query building learning curve. To get the most out of query set up, using the Query Editor is best, but learning the nuances of this process can be hard if you don't consider yourself to be very tech-savvy.
- It would be nice if widget color schemes were adjustable so graphs could be catered to specific report styles. Our company aesthetic doesn't really match with the rainbow-colored widgets created by Brandwatch, so sometimes they stand out in a bad way in our reports.
- I know this is something they are working on, but the current AI classification and learning abilities are limited (as of Oct. 2019). Part of their road-map with their Crimson Hexagon acquisition is to incorporate smarter classification and AI to help filter out irrelevant mentions.
- Sentiment classification is unreliable sometimes depending on the subject matter. If a user is being funny or sarcastic in a mention, the sentiment algorithm gets really tripped up.
September 10, 2019
Brandwatch Listening Review
Brandwatch is being used by myself and our clients' in house community management and analytics team. I use Brandwatch mainly for social listening requests or reports. We have other tools that can accomplish these asks, however, Brandwatch appears to be the most comprehensive and advanced tool yet that I have had experience using.
- Social listening
- Sentiment Analysis
- Trend Spotting
- Sentiment Analysis could be more accurate
- Easier Interface to use
- More explanation on when boolean terms are not applicable
For modern PR, having a pulse on social conversation is a must. We use it to monitor conversation on topics, brands, competitors, and to identify trends and audiences that can inform both strategic planning and rapid-response. In practice, the analytics team does most of the work in the platform, but there are some generalists who are comfortable doing basic to intermediate tasks.
- Slices and dices data by different keyword sets and visualizes it however you need it
- Doesn't limit the number of queries
- Allows for highly customized dashboards
- Makes it easy to limit access based on user logins
- Very steep learning curve- good luck training casual users on the difference between a query, a rule, a category etc
- Lack of access to FULL historic data is a serious drawback- populating that data takes a minimum of 24 hours and incurs additional costs
- Volume limits mean you may have to build your query to exclude mentions that may be useful in getting the full context of the situation
November 18, 2018
Great for seeing and monitoring conversations
We use Crimson Hexagon to look for social media stakeholder conversations across channels including Facebook, Twitter, and earned media. We use these conversations to gauge topical interest, sentiment, and unearth trends we might not have been able to see without analytically examining the problem. Many members of our team choose Crimson.
- Data you can trust
- Fast easy-to-learn UI
- Functionality that translates well across users - I.E. a team member can use it and will see the same result you do.
- Crisis monitoring support
- Unbranded or white-label report development
- SQL support
April 25, 2018
Enterprise Social Listening - Solved!
We use it as an agency for other brands in India. The whole organisation uses it, and in fact, most of our enterprise clients use Brandwatch services too. Based on the experience with clients and users of Brandwatch, the best use case of Brandwatch involved peer-benchmarking. Most companies use it to listen to what's happening on the internet about their peers. Why are they being liked or disliked? Bucketing such conversations gives them insights on what to improve on and what to focus more on. Other business problems Brandwatch takes care of include marketing campaign analytics, net sentiment, PR coverage, and brand health.
- Brandwatch is great with bulk changes in mentions, which I believe is also a USP as I haven't seen any tool do that (I have checked out many).
- You can bulk tag, change sentiment, add rules, add categories etc. to mentions.
- From tagging and rules comes good analysis of mentions. Once categorised, you'd be able to understand what are people taking the most about - in a negative or a positive way. Say a telecom company wants to know why people don't like my services - is it the network, or customer service or something else. Do people from a particular city complaint a lot?
- Brandwatch also does a good job at capturing a huge amount of mentions from 90M+ websites. That's 2x or 3x more in some cases than the few leading enterprise listening software.
- It also provides the maximum number of metadata per mention thus giving maximum scope of slicing the data and analysing in different ways.
- I feel Brandwatch needs to add more sources with proper API integrations. The integrations are limited to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. While Twitter gets great coverage, Facebook and Instagram do not (considering the recent policy changes, coverage has been limited). While it does capture 90M+ other sites which include most of the other social media sites such as Youtube, I feel an integration with such sites can get more analytics around usage data such as video viewing times, view growth on Youtube.
- While they have a lot of insights already, I feel a few word clouds could have been done differently as well, such as word connections. Also, more accurate auto-categorisation of mentions where manual rule adding isn't needed.
- E-commerce review coverage (Amazon etc.) should be included.
It is being used by the Media Department currently. It provides insights into both existing clients and the performance of their campaigns. We use it to measure Share of Voice, Brand Sentiment, and for customer insights on a monthly basis. We also use it as part of a "social audit" we perform for new clients to better acquaint our client on the social landscape and where they stand in it.
In addition, we also use it for research for new business development. This enables us to come up with insights into a potential client's business before making a deal, and enables us to know what type of programs would benefit the company the most, based on what's happening in the market.
In addition, we also use it for research for new business development. This enables us to come up with insights into a potential client's business before making a deal, and enables us to know what type of programs would benefit the company the most, based on what's happening in the market.
- The breadth of the data it captures is impressive, and you are only limited in the tool by your own knowledge of how to use the system. Therefore, if you know how to create smart, tightly structured queries, how to create smart rules to help save manual search and filing, already have a set of keywords to plug in to your query, and know how to use the more advanced chart visualizations beyond the stock ones they provide, you should be in great shape.
- The range of historical data, as well as the ability to access it in detail is a definite plus that puts them above competitors if you're looking for long-term historical trends.
- The visuals are basic, but look nice, and the ability to export most of the graphs and charts is very useful when putting together presentations.
- Depending on your prior knowledge, there could be a steep learning curve. Don't get me wrong, their customer service/account management is fantastic-- they take you through an initial training and are happy to answer any questions you have, but it's hard to articulate what you don't know, just starting out, so there's things I'm only learning how to do after a year of using the tool. I like to think of it as a very power shell/big data source. If you know exactly what data you're looking for and already have the necessary keywords to build a query, you can do great things. If not, it will be an uphill struggle at times.
- Many of its competitors have "quick search" type functions that are great for new business pitches or other situations where you're starting from square 1, while Brandwatch does not in its basic product and offers it as a separate product for additional fee.
- While the visualizations are serviceable, they are quite basic don't allow flexibility, so many times I end up exporting the data and creating my own in other tools.
- Intelligence on identifying sentiment is lacking without your own rules, training it, etc. I spend a fair amount of time re-categorizing mis-filed sentiment on posts.
November 29, 2017
Crimson Hexagon - The Best Social Analytics Tool
Cerner uses Crimson Hexagon to monitor brand mentions in the social media space. It is used to monitor share of voice against key competitors, sentiment of social media coverage, trending topics within the health care information technology space, and more. It was used to generate key reports that went up to senior level executives, including the President of the company.
- Drills down to specifics of what is being discussed on social media
- Very robust set of analytics tools
- Topic wheels are extremely useful for identifying trending topics
- It is a very costly tool
- The pricing packages are not the most intuitive to understand when going through the contract process
- The user interface could be improved to allow for more efficient usage
November 29, 2017
Helpful for Social Listening Insights and Share of Voice Analysis
Crimson Hexagon allows users to save all relevant data visualizations and metrics into a shared workspace that can be quickly transformed into a holistic report.
- Solid visualizations and reporting capabilities
- Shared workspaces to collaborate on social listening reports
- Share of voice studies among brands' competitive sets
- Word clouds and topic waves are often difficult to generate if there isn't enough conversation volume
- Visuals for share of voice comparisons are often hard to interpret
March 20, 2017
Brandwatch will help your reporting! Great tool.
We utilize Brandwatch to better understand consumer social media conversation across various clients. We have multiple users within the same department, but the information gets shared to many departments in our organization. It helps us inform social and content strategies, as well as, reporting for social campaigns for our social clients. The measurement piece of Brandwatch is a crucial part of our reporting.
- The measurement variables it can export and show are a great asset. For example, within an export or dashboard I can see follower count and engagement metrics at post-level, which we have not seen another tool do.
- Hashtag tracking on Twitter is very robust and especially helpful when running sweeps and counting entries.
- We love having the option to set what percentage of the Twitter Firehose we want to capture, so we're not limited to the Twitter Decahose.
- Capturing data on Instagram can definitely be improved, since we've found some gaps when tracking hashtags.
- Tracking Instagram is only limited to hashtags, so it would be great if we could also do keyword tracking.
- It is not the easiest tools to help identify conversation themes quickly. It usually takes a little longer to dig through the data/dashboards/widgets to help land on conversation insights or audience interests.
March 10, 2017
Crimson Hexagon captures the sentiments like no other.
Crimson Hexagon lets us see what people are saying about things in their own words. This allows the opportunity to assess them in ways that other records just don't. A real insight into real people.
- Boolean queries let you fully customize.
- Multi-language analytics.
- The geography description is very vague.
Brandwatch Analytics is being used across multiple business units within our agency. This includes account teams for clients for which we are the social AOR, as well as by agency resources that are shared by multiple business units for project (non-retainer) work, new business, etc. We also address multiple business problems with the platform. Some of these include analytics on client owned social platforms, content analysis, competitive set tracking, social listening, hashtag or campaign monitoring, research and planning, etc.
- Twitter coverage is very strong, which provides for accurate data and flexible measurement capabilities. Data sets include follower count, following count, replies, and retweets which sample data points that are not always available in other platform unless you are authorized as the owner of the channel.
- The entire platform is robust yet flexible. There are advanced Boolean operators that can be used to create complex queries. Then, when ready to analyze the data, the dashboards provide an almost endless way of filtering, categorizing, tagging, drilling down into, slicing, and dicing the data however you need to see it to answer your business problem.
- Customer service has always been timely and interactions are positive. They can usually solve a problem or at least give you a response to let you know they are working on an issue well within 24 hours.
- Instagram data coverage is not very strong. Though there are industry-wide hurdles in tracking data on Instagram, there are competitors that have proven more accurate than Brandwatch.
- Many larger, more broad queries return a lot of junk or spam posts. Customer service can help with filtering these out with common "NOT" operator phrases. However, some competitors do a better job on the back end to make sure you never see as much as the spam to begin with.
- Monthly data limits are a con if your work requires a lot of ad hoc projects and it's hard to project the monthly volume you will need.
February 19, 2016
I'm A Fan of Crimson Hexagon Forsight
Crimson Hexagon is being used as a tool to extract social listening insights to inform strategy and creative. We also use the tool to measure campaign success based on conversation insights. The tool is solely used by the planning/strategy department of the agency.
- Clearly presenting the most important metrics and information
- Capabilities of slicing the data up however you choose
- I like the ability to easily change the date range
- I would like to see a single metric for sentiment (e.g., net sentiment)