Global Data Coverage

Meltwater monitors a comprehensive range of global media channels to give you a complete view of your brand and industry. This includes over 400,000 traditional media sources such as newspapers and magazines across print and digital, more than 200 million online publications including blogs, review sites and forums, thousands of television and radio stations worldwide, over 20,000 podcasts, all major AI platforms and millions of social media sources. This broad coverage ensures you can track conversations, reputation, and trends across all major media types in one platform.

Meltwater includes coverage from leading premium and paywalled publications, ensuring access to high-value editorial content. This includes outlets such as Dow Jones, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Associated Press, Moody’s, Tribune Publishing, Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail. Through licensing agreements and partnerships, Meltwater provides access to content that is often unavailable through standard monitoring tools.

Meltwater monitors millions of social media sources across both global and regional platforms to support comprehensive social listening. Coverage includes global platforms such as X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitch, Discord, Threads, and Bluesky, as well as key regional platforms across APAC including WeChat, Weibo, RED (Xiaohongshu), Douyin, Toutiao, QQ, Bilibili, Youku, Naver, Kakao Talk, and LINE. This extensive coverage enables brands to monitor conversations across regions, languages, and audiences.

Yes, Meltwater provides extensive coverage of local media outlets worldwide. The platform monitors over 400,000 traditional media sources, including local newspapers and magazines, and covers all 210 U.S. Designated Market Areas (DMAs). It also includes regional online publications and local broadcast stations. Users can filter and analyze coverage by location, including city, state, country, DMA, or zip code, making it easy to track and engage with relevant local journalists and outlets.

Yes, Meltwater captures print-only articles as part of its traditional media monitoring. The platform monitors thousands of print publications globally and includes content from paywalled and print-exclusive sources through licensing agreements. This content is digitized, archived, and integrated with online, social, broadcast, and podcast data, ensuring a complete and unified view of media coverage.

Meltwater's podcast monitoring capabilities include: Tracking over 3,000 new podcasts daily from more than 25,000 channels across multiple languages. Monitoring brand mentions and uncovering industry trends within podcast content. Providing detailed results including podcast title, publication date, description, source, and a link to the audio file and transcript. Enhancing media coverage by integrating podcast mentions with other channels like news and social media for a holistic view. Delivering searchable and comprehensive podcast monitoring as part of Meltwater's broader media intelligence platform. This enables users to gain market intelligence and insights from the growing podcast medium effectively.

Meltwater covers a comprehensive array of media sources including top-tier or "tier one" publications, often thought of as the most influential national and international news outlets. While specific publication names are not explicitly listed in the search results, Meltwater's platform monitors over 300,000 editorial sources globally, including major newspapers, broadcast stations, and online news platforms. The platform uses advanced search and filtering capabilities allowing users to target keywords within these sources, ensuring coverage from leading tier one media is captured and analyzed. Meltwater’s extensive partnerships and data aggregations, plus real-time monitoring, assure coverage of major tier one outlets combined with local and niche media.

Meltwater provides comprehensive TV and radio monitoring capabilities as part of its broadcast archiving services. The platform covers all 210 U.S. DMAs and monitors thousands of television and radio stations worldwide. Coverage includes monitoring thousands of broadcast stations and processing approximately 55,000 hours of content daily. Real-time monitoring with content imported into the platform shortly after airing. This enables comprehensive tracking, analysis, and reporting of mentions across TV and radio to complement Meltwater’s broader media intelligence offerings.

Meltwater monitors the following ratings and review sites: Google reviews, TripAdvisor, Yelp, Trustpilot, Dianping, Glassdoor, Indeed, App store, Google Play, Amazon, Tmall, Taobao, JD.com, Other e-commerce sites.

Meltwater monitors the following LLM and AI search channels: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI mode, Deepseek, Llama, Claude, Gemini, Grok