Trend Report

The Listening Platform Landscape

New Solutions Extend Beyond Tracking To Deliver Consumer Insights

Suresh Vittal
 and  three contributors
Jan 22, 2009

Summary

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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