TrustRadius Insights for Talkwalker by Hootsuite are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Business Problems Solved
Talkwalker is a versatile tool that offers a range of use cases across different industries. Communications Insight teams have found it invaluable for supporting client briefs and evaluating global owned and earned media spaces. The software's ability to track mentions, news, competitors, and potential backlinks, even with a limited budget, has been highly praised by digital marketers. A consultancy has successfully used Talkwalker to implement and optimize media measurement systems for PR agencies and companies. Marketing and communications teams rely on the platform for social media analytics, influencer marketing, web analytics, social media listening, and competitor analysis. With real-time updates and crisis management features, Talkwalker keeps stakeholders informed during critical moments while generating informative reports.
The software's brand monitoring capabilities have been widely appreciated by users as it allows for the monitoring of brand mentions and backlinks from across the internet. By identifying key opinion leaders through metrics such as followers, engagement, and reach, Talkwalker helps businesses connect with influential voices. The ability to listen to conversations on social media platforms enables marketers to understand customer insights and unmet needs. The flexibility of boolean searches makes it possible to monitor both niche and broader topics efficiently.
Talkwalker has become an instrumental ally in various scenarios. It can supplement or replace traditional desk research by monitoring crisis situations and keeping an eye on general brand reputation issues. The software excels in its ability to identify increased engagement with negative reputation mentions, influencers, and compare past and present events on volume and sentiment. By performing social listening analytics, Talkwalker assists in measuring the impact of social efforts, campaigns, and influencer partnerships effectively. Moreover, it plays a crucial role in understanding cultural, social, and political moments by keeping track of critical conversations.
Overall, Talkwalker proves to be a valuable asset for businesses across industries. Whether monitoring social media for mentions of individuals and companies or tracking brand conversations and mentions for clients at scale, Talkwalker empowers users to identify issues and track brand perception changes over time. With features that cater to brand safety, content optimization, and brand tracking, Talkwalker is a comprehensive solution for businesses seeking to gain insights, measure sentiment, and stay informed about their online presence.
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Talkwalker is well suited for big companies and agencies that are looking for a long-term solution to keep track of the industry and/or their brands and key competitors. While setup requires a bit of dedication (especially in terms of custom filters and tags), once it's done, the tool will give the user a lot of flexibility to analyze the conversations and find the relevant results that answer the business questions. Companies just looking for a tool to track a short time period, or simple things like Twitter hashtags, won't take advantage of the full capabilities of this tool. Therefore, they could feel frustrated when comparing the outcomes/usage versus the costs.
VU
Verified User
Director in Research & Development (Market Research company, 11-50 employees)
I currently use Talkwalker to monitor social media for mentions of me and my company. It helps me stay abreast of what's happening on different social media channels. Social listening is becoming increasingly important as we need to be aware of who is talking about us and what they are saying.
Pros
Talkwalker helps you monitor online mentions so you can stay aware of what's being said about your company. Social listening is more important than ever.
Talkwalker also helps you delve deeper into the social insights to track patterns and give you data that can be helpful in the future as you plan your marketing efforts.
Talkwalker is one of the only products like it that incorporates AI and is, according to some, on the cutting edge in its field.
Cons
I find that the social mention reports I get are sometimes off-target. So it could do a better job of tailoring them to me and my company specifically.
If anything, there may be too much data. You need to discern what's most useful for you. It could be overwhelming until you do.
It's pretty expensive. Good, but expensive.
Likelihood to Recommend
The free Talkwalker alerts are accessible to everyone and a nice way to try to keep track of who is talking about you online. The paid version is expensive so it wouldn't be a fit for smaller businesses. For larger businesses that can invest the time to learn to use the tool, Talkwalker could be a trusted resource.
VU
Verified User
Consultant in Marketing (Public Relations and Communications company, 1-10 employees)
Before reviewing Talkwalker, let me describe my activity. I am the founder of suntriangle insights, a consultancy that helps PR agencies and companies implement and optimize their media measurement systems. In that capacity, I have tested innumerable traditional and social media monitoring and analysis platforms, including all of Talkwalker's major competitors.
Pros
UX: the product is incredibly easy and intuitive to learn, use and navigate
Content: great job at incorporating social, online, and broadcast feeds, with ever more sources being added to the mix
Analytics: one word: WOW. All major online and social media metrics are tracked within the platform and can be added to any report
Dashboards & reports: incredibly easy and flexible to build, customize, and ,modify dashboards and publish reports
Compatibility with other platforms and external analytics engines: Talkwalker is extremely flexible and comprehensive in how it makes data available to use in other platforms, from programmatic access to downloads in pretty much every available format.
Search, sorting and filtering: top notch. Talkwalker has endless filtering and sorting capabilities, making it extremely easy to zero in on relevant coverage and filter out noise.
Cons
Human analysis: programs built around human analysis tend to require advanced custom scoring options. These exist in Talkwalker, but using can become a little cumbersome when analyzing large quantities of articles. Then again, Talkwalker's exporting capabilities make it easy to feed the content into a specialized scoring platform.
Likelihood to Recommend
Talkwalker is particularly well-suited for people who want to monitor multiple media types at a time and rely on online and social media metrics to inform their decision-making.
Talkwalker's searching, filtering and sorting capabilities make it extremely easy for users who like to cross-references subsets of coverage to uncover actionable insights.