Brandwatch
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveSocial listening, publishing and influencer tooling for enterprise marketing teams, sold with Cision's PR stack
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Contact sales
Quote-only: the plans page says standard to enterprise plans exist for each product but shows no prices, and every call to action is a demo request; no free trial is mentioned.
Use tool ↗About Brandwatch
Brandwatch collects public social and web mentions into a research archive and lets analysts segment them by sentiment, topic and audience in dashboards, with alerts and automated reports on top. Around that core sit a social media management suite (the former Falcon) for calendars, paid and organic posting and a social CRM, an influencer product (the former Paladin) with a database of 30 million creators, and a newer search-and-AI monitoring module that tracks how a brand appears in search and generative answers. The company is part of the Cision group and sells by demo and quote; there is no self-serve price.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Plans page lists Consumer Intelligence, Social Media Management (formerly Falcon) and Influencer Marketing (formerly Paladin) with 'standard to enterprise plans' and no prices; every call to action is a free demo request; no trial mentioned (15 October 2026)brandwatch.com ↗
- Home page shows the suite — Consumer Intelligence, Social Media Management, Influence, Media Intelligence, Search Intelligence with GenAI monitoring, Iris AI, APIs — plus a 'Brandwatch + Cision' enterprise offer; footer registered address Runtime Collective Ltd, 7th Floor, 5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HU, company number 03898053 (15 October 2026)brandwatch.com ↗
- The site's terms link (/legal/terms-and-conditions/) redirects 301 to Cision's master services agreement (15 October 2026)cision.com ↗
Is Brandwatch legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- Oct 16, 1998 (28 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Tucows Domains Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Let's Encrypt, valid until Dec 9, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- Operated by
- Runtime Collective Ltd, United KingdomOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Brandwatch
Brandwatch is the research-grade end of social listening: the archive, the segmentation and the analyst tooling are built for insight teams at large brands, and the Cision tie-in matters if PR and comms already run on that stack. Small marketing teams who want to schedule posts and glance at mentions will pay enterprise money for a fraction of what they use, and the suite is still visibly three acquired products stitched together.
Pros
- Historical archive and custom segmentation go deeper than most listening tools
- Listening, publishing and influencer modules under one vendor and contract
- Search-and-generative-AI monitoring added to the suite for tracking brand presence in AI answers
- APIs and integrations are published as part of the suite
Cons
- Quote-only pricing with no trial; evaluation means a sales cycle
- The suite is three acquired products (Brandwatch, Falcon, Paladin) with differing interfaces
- Terms and contracts route through the Cision master agreement, so you are buying from the group
- Data coverage depends on platform APIs that have narrowed (X, Reddit) and is not fully listed
Best for
- Consumer-insight and research teams that need a deep historical archive and audience segmentation
- Enterprise marketing groups already on Cision for PR who want listening in the same contract
- Agencies running influencer campaigns alongside listening for several brand clients
Not for
- Small teams and startups — there is no self-serve plan or published price
- Anyone who only needs scheduling and basic monitoring, which cheaper suites cover
Watch out: Brandwatch's terms link redirects to Cision's master services agreement, so the contract you sign is Cision's, with its renewal and data terms — read that, not the Brandwatch page.
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