Talkwalker vs. Meltwater: Who has the best social listening?
Talkwalker provides you with comprehensive social listening. Why would you choose anything else?
With easy-to-filter and organize data from the broadest range of sources, Talkwalker helps ensure that you never miss a mention or rising trend.
Plus, Talkwalker is now part of Hootsuite. That means we now offer industry-leading social media management, too. It’s all part of why we’re the top Meltwater alternative.
No one knows social listening better than Talkwalker
Manageable insights
Slice and dice your data more effectively with a wide range of booleans and filters
5* onboarding and support
Talkwalker supports you with globally based support in the language you need
Clean, comprehensive data
Trust your data with consistent, reliable sources, including reviews
Advanced AI capabilities
Talkwalker’s AI is available to all, and provides fast, easy-to-understand analysis
Talkwalker is the platform of choice for over 2,500 brands
Complete data for your needs
Talkwalker has the most comprehensive data set in the industry, covering 30+ social media channels in 187 languages. Through this, we give you the most complete understanding of your brand, consumers, and competitors.
We also provide confidence in data. We manage all our crawling and data cleaning in-house, giving you datasets you can trust.
Add in unique data from specialized financial sources and APAC channels, and we leave Meltwater in the dust. Their customers often complain of unclean data and incomplete coverage.
Analytics made easy
Analytics are nothing if you can’t easily turn them into actionable insights.
Talkwalker’s platform offers a full range of booleans and filters to manage your data effectively, simplify data, and make it easier to understand the conversations around your brand.
With customizable alerts and reports, you can also share your insights with stakeholders in just a few clicks.
Talkwalker is focused on empowering everyone across your business with social intelligence, while Meltwater struggles to provide adequate filtering or reports.
The very best in social listening AI
Social listening AI should be about making your job easier, not about locking into processes you don’t want.
Our Yeti AI assistant is built into the platform, allowing any user to access it straight away. Got a burning question or need help pulling an insight? Trust Yeti to help. You can even customize it in the Yeti Studio for an assistant built around your brand.
Simple AI summaries across our widgets help you understand your full consumer story without hours of reading.
Meltwater’s reliance on Microsoft forces users to use Microsoft Teams, which means a bigger techstack and more onboarding.
The simple way to turn insights into results
Talkwalker is now part of Hootsuite, the leader in social media management.
To get the most from social media listening, you need to be able to action your insights as fast as possible. Hootsuite’s expertise makes it easy for you to create engaging content in seconds. So when you spot the latest trend or opportunity, you can jump on it instantly.
Meltwater offers some media management, but it’s often criticized as unreliable and clunky.
Switching to Talkwalker
Switching to Talkwalker is easy. We provide personalized onboarding and dedicated support to ensure a smooth transition. We have customer success managers across all time zones, to provide consistent support.
Frequently asked questions
Meltwater offers a wide range of services, from media monitoring to social listening, so to find a worthy competitor, you need a comprehensive solution.
Talkwalker is a perfect alternative, as we offer a complete consumer intelligence platform. Our main focus is social listening - we’re industry-leading and constant innovation.
However, we also offer additional solutions to complete the package. With 100+ integrations and a wide range of partners, we offer complete media monitoring. This helps you track brand mentions across broadcast media, news, podcasts, and more.
And now that we’re part of Hootsuite, you can also get the best of social media management in one place. Quickly turn social media insights into action, to deliver brand impact.
Don’t worry, there’s a social listening solution to match any budget. Talkwalker Free Social Search is a great free alternative to Meltwater.
While it doesn’t offer the depth of insights as the complete Talkwalker Social Listening Platform, it still helps you analyze industry topics and find the latest trends.
Start by entering the topic you’d like to understand. It could be a brand, product, competitor, industry driver, or anything else. Then Free Social Search will reveal the data around that keyword including:
Volume of mentions and sentiment, to see what’s talked about most and how people feel about it
Top themes, to see the keywords that are driving the conversation
Influencers, to see which people are leading the topic
Demographic, to uncover the nuances of your audience, and what resonates with them most
Mentions, to show you the most engaging or most viewed posts around a topic
You can compare up to 5 topics over the last seven days. Read more about Free Social Search.
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