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Talkwalker by Hootsuite

Score7.5 out of 10

44 Reviews and Ratings

What is Talkwalker by Hootsuite?

Talkwalker is a consumer intelligence company that bring sin data from 30+ social networks, 150 million websites, and 100 data partners to give customers a unified view of their consumers. Talkwalker is a Hootsuite solution since the 2024 acquisition.

Talkwalker Review

Pros

  • Real time monitoring.
  • Social media analytics.

Cons

  • Missing LinkedIn and Facebook real time monitoring.
  • Easier application of conditions in topic set up.

Return on Investment

  • Ability to contain negative comments.
  • Informed decisions for the stakeholders.

Alternatives Considered

Hootsuite, Sprinklr Modern Engagement (formerly Social + Messaging Suite) and Sprout Social

Other Software Used

Hootsuite, Google Analytics, Facebook Pages Manager

Great Functionality & It's Free!

Pros

  • Its email updates are convenient.
  • Your query can be very specific.
  • It has an unlimited amount of variations, even in the free version.

Cons

  • It does not catch everything.
  • Ineffective in certain cases.
  • Not very user-friendly.

Return on Investment

  • Good ROI because it is free.
  • Not very effective at catching all mentions.
  • Easy to use.

Alternatives Considered

Mention, NUVI, SEMRush and Agency Analytics

Other Software Used

NUVI, SEMRush, Mention

A 360º tool for those looking for a long-term tool to answer their social intelligence needs

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Talkwalker across the organization as part of our Tool Stack: Monitoring - track relevant reputational topics that have an impact on our clients, both positive and negative drivers. The alerts features allow us to receive an email with the topics growing in terms of results, although we keep active monitoring daily. Influencer Identification - by tracking the industry and category of interest we are able to identify the key opinion leaders not only by the volume of followers. We can combine multiple metrics available in the platform, such as the number of posts done within the topic, engagement, and reach, to select the most suitable influencers to meet our clients' needs. Customer Insights - understand key moments of consumption and unmet needs by listening to what people are sharing on social media platforms about a theme/brand/product/service. Understanding not only what they are saying, but also who is behind the conversations, thanks to anonymized customer information the tool provides. We are also able to answer less common business questions from our clients as the tool is quite flexible in terms of boolean searches. We are able to listen to what people are saying no matter if it is a very niche topic or a broader one. We are able to collect the relevant results and forensically analyze the drivers of the conversation.

Pros

  • Boolean searches are flexible, including a lot of advanced boolean terms
  • Multiple types of data visualization, both during topic analysis and also in dashboards
  • Filter options, especially the Custom Filters and Custom Tags
  • AI feature allows us to save time cleaning data or manually tagging specific themes

Cons

  • Tracking some social platforms, such as LinkedIn
  • Improving forum coverage in non-English markets
  • I'd like to be able to nest the "NEAR/x" operator two times in a query when defining some setups

Most Important Features

  • Boolean advanced searches and custom filters/tags
  • Quick Search
  • AI module where you can train your own AI model
  • Conversation Clusters

Return on Investment

  • Positive: We have been able to focus on what is important, the analysis, reducing the time spent in data cleaning and classification. This has allowed us to provide better insights to our clients.
  • Negative: Most of the time when they have a new feature it is an extra cost.

Other Software Used

Brandwatch, Synthesio Social Intelligence Suite, NetBase Quid

Talkwalker - A worthy addition to a social intelligence tool kit

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Talkwalker to perform social listening analytics across a roster of our clients to monitor brand health, measure sentiment, identify potential crises, and reveal themes in audience conversation. Many of our scopes require regular social media monitoring to measure the impact of social efforts, campaigns, influencer partnerships, etc. Especially in the past year, our use of Talkwalker quick search has been instrumental in helping us keep our finger on the pulse of critical conversations that aren't specifically tied to one of our clients but can help our clients understand cultural/social/political moments.

Pros

  • Sentiment Analysis.
  • Visualizations.
  • Dashboard Creation and Sharing.

Cons

  • A recent update has made adding filters to the dashboard far more convoluted than necessary.
  • Many metrics are displayed as "3.4M", it would be great if you could hover over that number to see the full "3,371,000".
  • The tagging feature is buggy and often needs to be done twice to tag the mentions applied in the rule.

Most Important Features

  • Topic Analysis.
  • Dashboard Creation.
  • Quick Search.

Return on Investment

  • Quick search allows immediate response to clients in need of crisis monitoring which has given opportunities for new scopes.
  • Metrics have supported owned campaign performance, to prove our strategy worked.
  • Identify potential influencers.

Alternatives Considered

Brandwatch

Other Software Used

Brandwatch, Unmetric, Helixa

Immediate Impact on our Business with Brand Monitoring Services

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use talkwalker internally to manage and monitor brand conversations and mentions for our clients at scale - we're able to quickly identify issues or problems that need to be addressed by our clients and track how brand perception changes over time. We also use talkwalker for their mentions feature which can track mentions of product, brand, employees, etc based on the custom filters setup.

Pros

  • Brand Management
  • Trend Analysis
  • Market Research

Cons

  • Improvements to Free Tools to supplement paid subscriptions
  • Talkwalker Alerts

Most Important Features

  • Brand Monitoring

Return on Investment

  • We've built trust with our clients with Talkwalker
  • Talkwalker has found brand mentions Google didn't