Consumer Intelligence Software

Last Updated: June 16th · 16 Platforms ranked

Djanan Kasumovic
Verified by Djanan Kasumovic
Head of Creator Research
About the listicle

The world’s only social sentiment software directory built on verified business and product signals. Every score in the Software Index is calculated across four equally weighted dimensions: revenue and growth, product depth, customer proof, and industry recognition.

#PlatformScoreLocation (HQ)
1Brandwatch88/100London, United Kingdom
2Sprout Social87/100Chicago, Illinois, United States
3Meltwater87/100San Francisco, CA, United States
4Talkwalker83/100Luxembourg, LU
5Sprinklr82/100New York, NY, United States
6Quid81/100Santa Clara, CA, United States
7Qualtrics79/100Provo, UT and Seattle, WA, United States
8Audiense76/100Ft. Worth, Texas, United States
9Brand2475/100Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, Poland
10Mentionlytics72/100London, United Kingdom
Leaders · 80–100

6 Leaders

End-to-end platforms with verified methodology, broad network coverage, and analyst recognition.

Brandwatch logo
London, United Kingdom501-1000 employeesSocial Listening

Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence suite holding 1.7 trillion historical conversations back to 2010 and adding 501 million new ones a day from 100 million sources, with firehose access to X, Tumblr, and Reddit. Iris AI turns data into readable insights, and image analysis detects logos, objects, and scenes. Customers include the BBC, Toyota, GSK, Standard Chartered, and Carlsberg.

Score breakdown
Product Depth25/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition19/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

Nethodology tracks 500k Barcelona mentions, 15 languages

Brand worked with
Nethodology
Platform(s) used
Facebook
Client Industry
Marketing Research

500K

Mentions per month

84%

Accuracy sentiment model

Veganz boosted positive mentions 22% with social listening

Brand worked with
Veganz
Client Industry
Vegan food

22%

Positive brand mentions increase

Land O'Lakes saved $500K with cross-team social listening

Brand worked with
Land O'Lakes
Client Industry
CPG

$100K+

Dollars saved

Sprout Social logo
Chicago, Illinois, United States1001-5000 employeesSocial Media Management

Sprout Social is a publicly traded social media management and intelligence platform used by 30,000+ brands, with listening across a billion-plus messages and consumer research covering demographics, share of voice, and competitor benchmarks. Trellis, its AI agent, queries billions of data points conversationally. Customers include Atlassian, Canva, HP, UNICEF, and Kraft Heinz.

Score breakdown
Product Depth24/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition19/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

pay.com.au drove 529% social growth with customer stories

Brand worked with
pay.com.au
Platform(s) used
Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok
Client Industry
B2B Fintech

98%

Response rate

529%

Compound annual growth

Care to Beauty scaled influencer reach 10x, 75% ROI

Brand worked with
Care to Beauty
Client Industry
Beauty

75%

Reduction in time spent

10x

Increase in influencer attributed

Randstad boosted social engagement 400% with community focus

Brand worked with
Randstad
Client Industry
Staffing

400%

Social media growth

60

Hours saved per month

45%

Social media engagement growth

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Meltwater

87/100
San Francisco, CA, United States1001-5000 employeesSocial Listening

Meltwater is a global media, social, and consumer intelligence platform ingesting 500M+ pieces of content a day from 270,000+ news sources, 25,000+ podcasts, and 15+ social channels. Its consumer intelligence suite surfaces trends, narratives, and competitive signals, with Mira AI and GenAI Lens tracking brand visibility across LLMs. Customers include Google, LVMH, AstraZeneca, Pernod Ricard, and Danone.

Score breakdown
Product Depth24/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition19/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

AutoTrader SA cuts monitoring time by 70,000+ posts

Brand worked with
AutoTrader South Africa
Client Industry
Automotive marketplace

70,000+

Vehicle listings

4M

Monthly website visits

Western Union monitors 550,000 sources in 200+ countries

Brand worked with
Western Union
Client Industry
Financial Services

550,000

Agent locations

80,000

Media mentions per month

200+

Countries and territories

Reboot Online boosted pitch wins 25% with research data

Brand worked with
Reboot Online
Client Industry
Agencies

25%

Research efficiency boost

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Luxembourg, LU501-1000 employeesSocial Listening

Talkwalker is a consumer intelligence platform monitoring 150 million websites and 30+ social networks with up to five years of history, logo recognition across tens of thousands of brands, and AI audience segmentation. Blue Silk GPT generates summaries and the Yeti agent answers questions in plain language. Customers include Adobe, Thomson Reuters, UNESCO, SoundCloud, and Kaiser Permanente.

Score breakdown
Product Depth25/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

NBA team grew fan engagement 352% with data-driven content

Brand worked with
NBA team
Platform(s) used
Instagram
Client Industry
Sports

27%

Engagement increase

352%

Social video increase

46%

Social impressions increase

1M+

Impressions on holiday posts

University of Sydney grew engagement 41%, perception 31.5%

Brand worked with
University of Sydney
Platform(s) used
Instagram
Client Industry
Education

41%

Social video increase

31.5%

Brand sentiment increase

4x

Campaign engagement rate

Milwaukee Brewers tracks sponsor ROI with social data

Brand worked with
Milwaukee Brewers
Platform(s) used
Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, Facebook
Client Industry
Sports
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Sprinklr

82/100
New York, NY, United States1001-5000 employeesSocial Listening

Sprinklr is an AI-native customer experience platform covering 30+ channels, 400K+ media sources, and over a billion websites and review sites in real time. Sprinklr Copilot performs deep research conversationally and AI+ Studio builds custom models. Customers include Uber, Deutsche Telekom, Acer, Aramex, and Northwestern Mutual.

Score breakdown
Product Depth24/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

Yango Play tracked 2M+ posts, gained 30x competitive edge

Brand worked with
Yango Play
Client Industry
Media & Entertainment

30x

Engagement vs competitors

2M+

Interactions (four months)

Northwestern Mutual hit 57K likes on Instagram post

Brand worked with
Northwestern Mutual
Platform(s) used
Instagram
Client Industry
Financial Services

300

New followers

31K

Likes on single post

57K

Engagements in 7 days

Pet food brand unified global support, grew by 20%

Brand worked with
Pet Food Producer
Client Industry
CPG

20

Nps increase

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Quid

81/100
Santa Clara, CA, United States201-500 employeesSocial Listening

Quid is an AI-powered consumer and market intelligence platform analyzing conversations across 2M+ blogs, 10K+ forums, and 580K+ news sources, with 27 months of history spanning 400B+ posts. Ask Q answers questions in natural language and Quid Predict flags weak signals before trends peak; owned-account social analytics live in Rival IQ, a Quid company. Customers include Walmart, T-Mobile, Lufthansa, Accenture, and Edelman.

Score breakdown
Product Depth23/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition19/25
Revenue & Growth20/25

Social listening and consumer insight analysis to build brand identity and scale community engagement through data-driven content strategy

Brand worked with
Manscaped
Platform(s) used
TikTok, Facebook
Client Industry
Consumer Goods

50%+

Weekly engagement

10K+

Facebook group members

7K → 17M

Organic video views growth

Predictive M&A intelligence and corporate strategy using data-driven analysis of earnings calls, analyst reports, and financial signals

Brand worked with
Intel
Client Industry
Technology

40%

Portfolio roi

13/15

Prediction accuracy

Social analytics for customer sentiment monitoring, competitive positioning, and product launch tracking

Brand worked with
Buffalo Wild Wings
Client Industry
Food and Beverage
Strong · 65–79

8 Strong

Category specialists and regional leaders with verified buyer references.

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Qualtrics

79/100
Provo, UT and Seattle, WA, United States5001-10000 employeesSocial Listening

Qualtrics is an experience management platform used by 20,000+ brands, with Social Connect monitoring 35+ digital channels and XM Discover analyzing text across social, reviews, calls, and surveys with AI topic models. Built first for customer experience teams rather than brand listening. Customers include UPS, Volkswagen, Hilton, Goldman Sachs, and Chipotle.

Score breakdown
Product Depth21/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

Unified member experience management with AI-powered analytics to predict member dissatisfaction and prevent disenrollment in real-time

Brand worked with
Elevance Health
Client Industry
Healthcare

8

Cahps measures improved

3,700+

Medicare members retained

50%

Reduction in voluntary disenrollment

Patient experience transformation using comprehensive feedback collection and AI-powered predictive analytics to improve care coordination and communication

Brand worked with
Stanford Health Care
Client Industry
Healthcare

30%

Reduction in open complaints and grievances cases

~10%

Increase in patient satisfaction survey response rates

>90%

Patients responding to digital survey within seven days

AI-powered comprehensive customer feedback analysis to proactively identify and resolve customer experience friction points

Brand worked with
Ally Financial
Client Industry
Financial Services

97%

Issue resolution rate

103

System issues addressed

109

System issues identified

10x

Cx friction visibility increase

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Audiense

76/100
Ft. Worth, Texas, United States201-500 employeesSocial Listening

Audiense is an audience intelligence platform used by 2,000+ companies and agencies, segmenting audiences from social graph, behavioral, and cultural data. Audiense Action lets teams chat with AI-built segments and Tweet Binder tracks hashtags in real time. Customers include PepsiCo, TikTok, Deloitte, Heineken, and Manchester United.

Score breakdown
Product Depth23/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth20/25

Audience targeting to spread awareness and build support for Nature Positive campaign and global biodiversity framework

Brand worked with
WWF International
Platform(s) used
Twitter
Client Industry
Environmental Conservation

10,000+

Followers gained

Audience research and paid campaigns to help publicly-traded mining company pivot to battery technology space and reach new audiences

Brand worked with
Red Cloud Financial Services
Platform(s) used
Facebook, Twitter
Client Industry
Financial Services

7,000

New website visitors

3x

Share price increase

5x

Trading volume increase

Audience research and segmentation to attract younger and more diverse audiences to opera while maintaining relevance with existing attendees

Brand worked with
Bayerische Staatsoper
Client Industry
Arts & Culture

600,000+

Annual guests

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Brand24

75/100
Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, Poland51-200 employeesSocial Listening

Brand24 is a social listening tool tracking 25 million+ online sources in real time for 4,000+ brands, with audience demographics, reputation scoring, and topic analysis. The AI Brand Assistant answers questions directly from project data and the Anomaly Detector explains mention spikes. Customers include Samsung, Uber, IKEA, Intel, and H&M.

Score breakdown
Product Depth22/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth20/25

Social selling and customer acquisition through social media monitoring to find repair service leads

Brand worked with
Mobidoktor
Platform(s) used
Facebook
Client Industry
Smartphone repair services

212%

Conversion increase

20-30

Monthly repairs increase

Social listening for product development feedback and campaign monitoring during new app rollout

Brand worked with
Uber
Platform(s) used
Twitter/X
Client Industry
Transportation and ride-sharing

90%

Likes growth

250%

Shares increase

11%

New users increase

24%

Engagement increase

7%

Rides per user increase

100%

Discussion volume growth

Digital PR and SEO optimization through social media monitoring for backlink opportunities and campaign tracking

Brand worked with
Hostinger
Client Industry
Web hosting and website-building

10-15

Unlinked mentions found monthly

Mentionlytics logo
London, United Kingdom11-50 employeesSocial Listening

Mentionlytics is a web and social media monitoring platform serving 70,000 users across social networks, news, blogs, forums, reviews, and podcasts. The SIA advisor, AI Mention Clustering, image recognition, and audience demographics anchor its intelligence suite. Customers include Lidl, Zurich, Ogilvy, Eurobank, and CamScanner.

Score breakdown
Product Depth24/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth15/25

Social media monitoring and reputation management for sports sponsorship clients and athlete endorsements

Brand worked with
Impact & Emotions
Platform(s) used
Facebook
Client Industry
Sports marketing agency

70x

Maximum engagement increase

5-10x

Engagement increase with player endorsements

Social media monitoring and reputation management across multiple hotel properties and social accounts

Brand worked with
Electra Hotels
Client Industry
Hospitality

57.9%

Total mentions increase

22.4%

Total engagement increase

46.3%

Positive sentiment increase

Brand awareness measurement and campaign effectiveness tracking for marketing summits and events

Brand worked with
Customers.ai
Client Industry
B2B SaaS

38%

Social reach increase

42%

Brand mentions increase

728%

Social engagement increase

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Attest

68/100
London, England, United Kingdom51-200 employeesSocial Listening

Attest is an AI consumer insights platform for B2C brands, surveying a panel of 150+ million people across 59 countries with brand tracking, creative testing, and competitor benchmarking. Compass AI designs surveys, analyzes results, and refines reports through conversation; there is no social listening component. Customers include Netflix, Unilever, ASOS, Gymshark, and JPMorgan.

Score breakdown
Product Depth15/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth20/25

Concept testing and brand tracking across diverse brand portfolio to guide high-impact marketing decisions and validate creative ideas

Brand worked with
Sun Pacific
Client Industry
Food & beverage

1.5K

Respondents

Brand tracking to measure awareness before launching vegetable box brand into three new UK regions

Brand worked with
Oddbox
Client Industry
Food & beverage

£200K

Savings

Consumer research across 8 markets to understand what elements consumers look for in reviews and how brand integrity affects consumer trust

Brand worked with
Trustpilot
Client Industry
Technology

15K

Respondents

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GWI

67/100
London, London, United Kingdom501-1000 employeesSocial Listening

GWI is a consumer research platform built on survey data from 50+ markets, with 250K+ profiling points covering attitudes, interests, and behaviors. Agent Spark answers questions in plain language against 35 billion data points, with exports to Tableau and Power BI; it is audience research rather than conversation listening. Customers include Nextdoor, One Championship, and Passion Digital.

Score breakdown
Product Depth14/25
Customer Proof14/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth25/25

Consumer insights for ad sales teams to accelerate RFP responses and identify new advertising partners

Brand worked with
Condé Nast
Client Industry
Media

30+

Markets

130+

Publications

1B+

Global consumers

Custom research to support ad sales pitches with insights into niche audiences, specifically online food delivery consumers

Brand worked with
Eurosport
Client Industry
Sports

94

Countries

20

Languages

236M

Subscribers

Consumer research to identify target audience and insights for agency client's CPG personal care brand launch pitch

Brand worked with
First & First Consulting
Client Industry
Agency

200%

Yoy growth

4000+

Analyses run

25+

Research tools

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Synthesio

66/100
Paris, France51-200 employeesSocial Listening

Synthesio is the Ipsos consumer intelligence suite combining social, search, and survey data from 600+ million sources across 80+ languages and 195 countries. Signals GenAI turns real-time consumer signals into insights in about 60 seconds, with AI Topic Modeling and image recognition. Customers include Nestlé, Rémy Cointreau, and other Ipsos research clients.

Score breakdown
Product Depth23/25
Customer Proof9/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth20/25
No customer stories on file. Platforms can submit case studies for editorial review.
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Awario

66/100
Nicosia, CY51-200 employeesSocial Listening

Awario is a social listening tool crawling 13 billion web pages daily alongside the X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and VK APIs, serving 6,000+ customers. Share of voice, sentiment, spike alerts, and white-label reports cover the essentials at an accessible price. Customers include Chanel, SAP, Coca-Cola, and Typeform.

Score breakdown
Product Depth18/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition9/25
Revenue & Growth20/25

Social selling and lead generation for global network of top-tier software talent

Brand worked with
Ûpstack
Client Industry
B2B technology

50-60x

Roi

Digital campaign strategy and social media monitoring for The Independent Group political party launch

Brand worked with
Seraph
Client Industry
Political consulting

500K+

Page views

160K

Website visitors

Social media monitoring and engagement for national charitable giving movement launch

Brand worked with
GivingTuesday Netherlands
Platform(s) used
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube
Client Industry
Non-profit

13.5M

Reach

1.6K

Mentions

250+

Participating charities

Contenders · Below 65

2 Contenders

Newer entrants and self-serve platforms still building methodology evidence.

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Suzy

57/100
New York, NY, United States201-500 employeesSocial Listening

Suzy is a consumer insights platform that runs surveys and AI-moderated interviews against its own panel, returning answers in hours. The Decision Engine lets teams chat with their research data and Signals monitors 10,000+ publications and social feeds for emerging trends; conversation-level sentiment analytics is not part of the product. Customers include Google, Microsoft, Walmart, Samsung, and Sephora.

Score breakdown
Product Depth14/25
Customer Proof9/25
Industry Recognition14/25
Revenue & Growth20/25
No customer stories on file. Platforms can submit case studies for editorial review.
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Latana

53/100
Berlin, Germany11-50 employeesSocial Listening

Latana is a brand tracking platform using ad-based sampling and MRP modeling to deliver monthly brand health data, with up to 100,000 interviews per brand per year in each country. Dashboards cover awareness, consideration, and competitor benchmarks across custom audience segments; it is survey research, not listening. Customers include Amazon, IKEA, Adidas, Uber, and UNICEF.

Score breakdown
Product Depth10/25
Customer Proof19/25
Industry Recognition9/25
Revenue & Growth15/25

Cost-effective monthly brand performance tracking among potential mattress buyers across multiple markets

Brand worked with
Emma Sleep
Client Industry
DTC sleep products

1K

Potential mattress buyers per month

High-frequency brand tracking and cross-channel marketing insights for Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER brands

Brand worked with
PVH
Client Industry
Fashion

Brand tracking combining industry-leading quality with DIY survey solution flexibility

Brand worked with
Bloom & Wild
Client Industry
E-commerce florist
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