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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Media Monitor Pro

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AMedia Monitor Pro is a a media monitoring and analytics platform from Metro Monitor headquartered in Alabama.N/A

    MutualMind (discontinued)

    Score5.6 out of 10
    N/AMutualMind was an enterprise listening platform with engagement and publishing features and analytics, that is now discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2016.

    $1,000

    per month

    Pricing
    Media Monitor ProMutualMind (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    Media Monitor ProMutualMind (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Media Monitor ProMutualMind (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Media Monitor ProMutualMind (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Metro Monitor
    Media Monitor Pro is a great choice for smaller organizations, such as companies, nonprofits or PR agencies, that need to monitor television news coverage when a lot of television news clips are not expected on a daily basis. It offers competitive pricing compared to some of the larger players in the media monitoring space but without the "bells and whistles" of reports and analytics, but a smaller company wouldn't need those as much as a larger company that is in the news on television a lot. It's not as great of a fit for those larger companies, particularly when there is a crisis PR situation and the company needs to be tracking news media coverage constantly and have instant access to any and all clips.
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    Discontinued Products
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    Pros
    Metro Monitor
    • Cost effective - Media Monitor Pro offers very affordable and competitive pricing for television news media monitoring services.
    • Ease of use - it's easy to view clips sent in the daily emails and to edit, download and share them with others, even if they are not registered users of the Media Monitor Pro platform.
    • The scope of monitoring - Media Monitor Pro monitors the majority of local news television stations throughout the country, plus a decent amount of radio stations.
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    Discontinued Products
    • MutualMind gives us a view into the reach of social content we produce on behalf of our advertisers and the engagement that content generates with shoppers.
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    Cons
    Metro Monitor
    • Clip availability - quite frequently, the links to clips in the daily digest emails would not work. After clicking the link, you would be taken to the clip player and it would "load" for quite a while and then say the clip failed to play. I would have to contact the support team to figure out if it was an issue with the clip or why it wasn't loading.
    • Clip timing - often when you begin playing a clip in the player, it's not at the specific part that mentioned your company's keywords. That would mean I had to listen to a long clip/story to find what part was relevant to me.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • MutualMind gauges sentiment around social conversations but does so with the standard margin of error found in most social analytics products. The nature of human conversation makes it difficult for a machine to categorize sentiment with 100% accuracy. MutualMind gets sentiment right between 50% to 70% which is within acceptable industry averages for this type of product. With additional tuning (which MutualMind provides) the accuracy levels will increase.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Metro Monitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Reliability and flexibility (MutualMind's willingness to jointly produce new functionality)
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    Usability
    Metro Monitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    As a company that's only 3 years old, MutualMind's toolset is quite usable but it could use some tweaks in the user interface, which they are constantly working on.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Metro Monitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    During a recent upgrade period, MutualMind had a small window of unavailability. I am confident they have addressed the root cause and do not foresee any future issues.
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    Performance
    Metro Monitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The product's performance has improved greatly in the last year and we anticipate seeing additional improvements in coming months based no planned infrastructure changes.
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    Support Rating
    Metro Monitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    MutualMind has always been quick to address any issues or questions we have.
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    Implementation Rating
    Metro Monitor
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Not really...MutualMind was very professional and helped with all stages of our setup and implementation.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Metro Monitor
    I prefer Cision PR Software over Media Monitor Pro. Cision PR Software is more expensive, but offers more options and is a better overall comprehensive solution to media monitoring and reporting as it monitors television, print and online news. Media Monitor Pro only monitors television news clips, so I have to also use another service to monitor for print and online coverage, then create my own reports from scratch using analytics and data from both platforms.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    As mentioned before, Radian6 and Sysomos Heartbeat.
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    Return on Investment
    Metro Monitor
    • Media Monitor Pro had a negative impact in terms of timely access to some news clips. Although the reports are delivered regularly, the issues with clicking on particular clips and not having them play properly were frustrating and left us without key clips needed in crisis situations.
    • Media Monitor Pro had a positive impact in terms of allowing us to easily store and categorize clips through folders by topic and date.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • By showing increases in engagement and share of voice (defined as the amount of content generated for our advertisers versus the amount of content generated for their competitors over time) we are able to correlate content to incremental sales data provided by our advertisers.
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