For Interactive Marketing Professionals (Length: 11 pages)

January 22, 2009

The Listening Platform Landscape

New Solutions Extend Beyond Tracking To Deliver Consumer Insights

by Suresh Vittal

with Zach Hofer-Shall, Christine Spivey Overby, Emily Bowen


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Consumers continue to use social technologies to wrestle control of brands away from organizations. Marketers operating in this hyper-inclusive environment must go beyond simply tracking brand mentions and impressions and get at the root of the discussion. Enter listening platforms. Listening platforms are an emerging technology solution category — with origins in the brand monitoring market — that allows marketers to track discussions, understand sentiment, identify influencers, and use the resulting insights to improve market research, positioning, and overall marketing strategy.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemMarketers Must Listen To The Groundswell

itemConsumers Control A Company's Reputation

itemListening Platforms Empower Marketers

itemThe Listening Platform Landscape Is Fragmented

itemListening Platforms Share A Three-Step Process . . .

item. . . But Offer Differing Solutions

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itemImprove Marketing Strategy With A Listening Platform

Forrester interviewed 30 vendor and user companies for this report.

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Analyst: Suresh Vittal
Technology: Brand Management, Customer Experience, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising, Marketing Automation, Social Computing & Web 2.0
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

Archived Teleconference:
The Forrester Wave™: Listening Platforms
Original air date: Friday, February 13, 2009
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