Guide to Social Media Analysis

This is the most complete reference to companies who offer social media monitoring and analysis services worldwide, with detailed profiles of 31 companies based in 9 countries. The Guide to Social Media Analysis has the information you need to accelerate your vendor selection process.

Highlights

• Overview of major trends: types of companies and typical services
• Quick reference to vendor services
• Quick reference to language capabilities across 37 languages (shown at right)
• Global scope
• 31 detailed vendor profiles
• 33 screenshots and sample charts

Audience

• Clients looking for a vendor
• Agencies looking for a partner or supplier
• Vendors looking for international or technology partners
• Investors who want to understand the players in this emerging market

Complete vendor profiles

The core of the Guide is the company profiles, which collect information beyond what's available on vendor web sites in a convenient package. Download a free sample (PDF).

Each profile includes:

• Headline and 4–5 highlights for quick scanning.
• Overview of the company's services, including a discussion of what types of analysis they provide and how they develop it.
• A checklist of which of the typical services the vendor offers.
• A closer look at deliverables and pricing.
• Ownership and investor information.
• Details: company size, when it was founded, how long they've offered social media analysis, percentage of revenue from social media analysis, geographical scope, language capabilities and company bloggers.
• Contact information, including office locations and direct contact for potential clients.

If you need to know your options for monitoring, measuring and analyzing social media, the Guide to Social Media Analysis will save you weeks of effort and staff time in finding and understanding the companies in the market.

Companies in the Guide

Attentio Biz360 BrandIntel BurrellesLuce BuzzLogic CIC Collective Intellect ComMetric Converseon CoreX Technologies CustomScoop

CyberAlert Digital Influence Group Dow Jones (Factiva) Ethority/Buzzcentric Integrasco Kaava Market Sentinel Millward Brown Precis MotiveQuest NetMap Analytics

New Media Strategies Nielsen BuzzMetrics Onalytica Radian6 RTGI Scanblog TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony Umbria Visible Technologies Waggener Edstrom

Buy now, get the update free

Work on the second edition is underway, with over 100 vendors on five continents in the system. If you buy the first edition now, we'll send you the update at no additional charge once it's available. You'll get the best reference available today, and you'll avoid the likely price increase on the second edition.

How vendors were selected

The selection criteria required vendors to offer monitoring or analysis of social media using their own technology. Companies who offer services based exclusively on technology from other companies were excluded. Vendors did not pay to be listed.