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Critical Mention

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What is Critical Mention?

Critical Mention headquartered in New York offers their eponymous media monitoring platform for public relations and crisis management.

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Critical Mention is a versatile platform that offers a wide range of use cases for its users. Organizations and individuals heavily rely …
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Fair and good

5 out of 10
October 13, 2021
This is a very good app to increase and track your engagement on social media influencer marketing and brand but I would like if they can …
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Worth the ROI

8 out of 10
July 18, 2018
Incentivized
We use Critical Mention to pull broadcast media coverage for our clients. It provides reporting metrics as well as an opportunity to …
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What is Critical Mention?

Critical Mention headquartered in New York offers their eponymous media monitoring platform for public relations and crisis management.

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Product Details

What is Critical Mention?

Critical Mention allows users to search global TV, Radio, Social Media & Online News, watch video, edit and internally share coverage, receive real-time email alerts, build reports, and analyze coverage through word clouds and graphs.

In contrast to traditional broadcast monitoring services, Critical Mention employs technology to monitor broadcast television in real-time. Using Critical Mention's search platform, customers can view their broadcast clips and transcripts within seconds of airing.

The Critical Mention search platform deploys technology that continuously digitizes transcripts and live broadcast footage, in real-time, and indexes and stores each in the Critical Mention media database. Users are able to perform keyword searches against the database (a company name, product, person, topic, etc.) and have their results of their keyword mention instantly displayed within the platform. Users can then watch the video, read the transcript, forward the clip on to colleagues, order the clip to an archive, or a host of other tasks designed for users to effectively communicate and share their broadcast mentions. Learn more at https://www.criticalmention.com/

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Frequently Asked Questions

Critical Mention headquartered in New York offers their eponymous media monitoring platform for public relations and crisis management.

TVEyes, Meltwater, and Cision Communications Cloud are common alternatives for Critical Mention.

The most common users of Critical Mention are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Critical Mention is a versatile platform that offers a wide range of use cases for its users. Organizations and individuals heavily rely on Critical Mention to monitor their brand's media mentions across various platforms, including TV, radio, print, and social media. This allows them to stay informed about their brand's reputation and track the impact of their marketing efforts. Users can also review competitors and other schools to see their mentions in the news, enabling them to gather insights and benchmark their performance.

Teams within organizations find great value in Critical Mention as it enables them to provide relevant television and radio clips to clients. They can easily measure coverage volume on specific topics, helping them gauge their media presence and track the success of their campaigns. By creating alerts based on keywords, users can save time and avoid the need for daily searches.

Critical Mention goes beyond monitoring by offering features for managing and analyzing specific interviews conducted on TV, radio, and online media outlets worldwide. Users can easily edit videos, assign tags and metadata, and analyze coverage through features like word clouds and graphs. The platform provides essential information such as audience numbers, air dates and times, and ad values, offering comprehensive insights into media coverage.

One of the standout features of Critical Mention is its ability to locate broadcast coverage that users wouldn't be able to view on their own. It captures segments from multiple outlets, saving users the effort of individually searching for coverage across different channels. This makes it an invaluable tool for organizations seeking to compile a comprehensive picture of their media mentions.

Furthermore, Critical Mention serves as a centralized location for all news clips, allowing users to store and edit clips to present to executives as a reflection of their media relations efforts. The platform facilitates the process of tracking and documenting media coverage for organizations and foundations. It is particularly useful for marketing departments looking to monitor media coverage, reputation, and compile reports for boards and leadership teams.

In addition to traditional media monitoring, Critical Mention also excels in monitoring social media presence across multiple platforms. This ensures that users have thorough coverage of mentions and can track their brand's visibility in the digital landscape. The platform is crucial for media monitoring, search, editing, and compiling functions in public relations.

Research departments find great value in Critical Mention as it allows them to capture and analyze interviews and television segments. The platform's features provide a user-friendly experience, making it easy to navigate and effectively utilize its capabilities. Reviewers have praised this software for streamlining order management processes and improving efficiency in fulfilling customer orders.

Overall, Critical Mention serves as a comprehensive solution for media monitoring, analysis, and management across various channels. It caters to the needs of organizations ranging from marketing departments monitoring media coverage to research teams analyzing interviews and television segments. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, it has garnered positive feedback from users, reviewers, and customers alike.

Users recommend using Critical Mention for media monitoring and reporting needs. They suggest experimenting with the software to assess its suitability for specific requirements. Customers appreciate the excellent customer service provided by Critical Mention. Users advise undergoing training to fully utilize all the tools in Critical Mention. They find it valuable for media monitoring and consider it the top tool in terms of responsiveness and pricing flexibility. Users highly recommend taking advantage of the support offered by Critical Mention, finding it extremely beneficial for media monitoring. They suggest considering it as a strong and cost-effective option.

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Cara Ferguson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We selected Critical Mention and are trapped in a contract with them we can't use. We ended up having to go with another software that does what we need. Grateful that the other company allowed a trial period to ensure that it did have the components we needed. At a substantially better price too.
October 13, 2021

Fair and good

Michael Muyembe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
It provides both free and premium and you can also add a portfolio, other media links, and website. It also verifies its members like popular apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram [do]. It increases your visibility on google search for free like I use it.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Critical Mention has an excellent TV coverage solution in the marketing or communication industry. More so, helps us identify or see the comments in most of the social sites mentions, and gives the allowance of positively responding to them. The integration with Google, for the purpose of analysis, is another unique aspect of Critical Mention.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
TV Eyes seems to be the biggest competitor to Critical Mention, but we've found that it's just not quite as intuitive or simple to track specific media hits. We keep going back to Critical Mention year after year because it does the job we need it to do to track broadcast TV hits.
Tom McGuire | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am not one to bash a competition product, but I have used several other similar products from different vendors. It has mostly been a disaster. Poor customer service to poor software interface has led me to Critical Mention. It's the first time I have ever stayed with a product beyond one year. One company only ever reached out to me when it was time for a renewal despite repeated reach-outs on my part during the year.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I initially selected Critical Mention because of it's DIY, quick, easy, and intuitive monitoring platform which tracks the most TV outlets in the industry. I stay with Critical Mention because of its customer service.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We previously used a company called TV Eyes for our media monitoring. When a big event happened and their system was down, we were very disappointed. The disappointment was compounded by their reaction and customer service. They never offered to help fix it or offered an apology. I'm sure Critical Mention would respond much better, based on the customers service that I have witnessed.
Jerry Kambic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Both Cision and Meltwater are over price and undervalued in our opinion. They both cost more and provide less. If Critical Mention makes a few changes to their software and expands its online offer and social media tracking both of these software companies would be obsolete. Their report is far inferior to Critical Mention for the price.
Keith Wald | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • TVeye
I honestly do not know of any other alternatives to Critical Mention that I have personally used in a professional capacity. The only one that I am aware of is TYeye and from what I have heard about the platform from colleagues is that Critical Mention is a much better and user-friendly system.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Burrelles is confusing and outdated. Critical Mention works on the side of the account team and understands our needs better. I was able to share hundreds of outlets that I wanted to be included in my online search and Critical Mention added all of them in less than a day I was seeing better results in my searches. The possibilities with Burrelles seem limited while Critical Mention's online monitoring service really lets me craft reports the way I want to.
July 25, 2014

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Allison Lehman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • VMS
Before Critical Mention, I utilized VMS for similar projects and there is simply no comparison between the two platforms. While VMS reported similar results, it did not include the same post-production features as Critical Mention and the lack of self-service functionality was detrimental to workflow management. Critical Mention provides the necessary tools for users to master the program themselves, with assistance always available in person, via email, through their live-chat feature or over the phone, from an experienced team of customer service professionals. Critical Mention also provides additional tools for management, analysis and reporting that I have not experienced with any other vendors.
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