Explore+
Deeper Insights for Enterprise-Scale Intelligence
When standard monitoring isn’t enough, Explore+ gives you the depth, structure, and intelligence you need to move from tracking conversations to shaping strategy. Built for enterprise teams, Explore+ combines advanced analytics, extended historical data, and AI-powered insights in one unified Meltwater experience. You get the clarity to understand what’s happening and the confidence to act.
Explore+ helps you:
- Turn fragmented data into a single source of truth
- Move from reactive reporting to proactive strategy
- Scale insights across global teams and markets
- Make faster, data-backed decisions with confidence
Trusted by PR & Comms Teams Worldwide
Leading global organizations rely on Meltwater to understand their brand, audience, and market in real time.
With 27,000 customers worldwide and recognition as a leader in media monitoring and PR analytics, Meltwater helps teams turn data into decisions every day.
From global communications teams to insights and marketing leaders, Explore+ powers the next level of media and consumer intelligence.
When Explore Isn’t Deep Enough
At a certain point, standard monitoring hits a ceiling. You may recognize the signs:
“We’ve outgrown Explore.”
“We need more powerful analytics.”
“We can’t go deep enough into the data.”
“We need more flexibility in segmentation.”
The most common challenges:
- Limited historical data for long-term analysis
- Difficulty scaling reporting across markets
- Constraints in segmentation and categorization
- Pressure to consolidate tools and workflows
Explore+ is built for teams that need more—more depth, more flexibility, and more strategic insight at scale.
What is Explore+?
Explore+ is Meltwater’s advanced analytics layer designed for enterprise teams that require deeper segmentation, extended historical data, AI-powered analysis, and multi-layered insights beyond standard monitoring.
It unifies social and news intelligence into a single experience, helping teams track conversations, decode narratives, and understand consumers in real time.
Explore vs. Explore+: What’s the Difference?
Explore for speed when you need it. Explore+ for depth when you need it.
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Explore+
Multi-layered analytics in a single framework
As your questions become more sophisticated, your analytics should follow.
Explore+ allows you to straightforwardly structure and analyze data across multiple dimensions. Instead of creating separate searches for every angle, you can apply layered categorization and filtering that reflects how your business actually operates.
This means you can explore brand performance across regions, compare competitors in context, and analyze themes, sentiment, and narratives all without rebuilding your workflow each time. The result is more flexible, more granular analysis that supports real strategic thinking.
24+ Months of historical intelligence
Short-term data tells you what’s happening now. Long-term data shows you what matters. Explore+ gives you access to 24+ months of historical data, so you can:
- Run year-over-year comparisons
- Track long-term brand health and perception
- Analyze campaign performance over time
- Build a proprietary repository of structured insights
- Identify patterns and shifts that short-term data misses
- With deeper history, your insights become more strategic—and more reliable.
See How Explore+ Transforms Your Analytics Workflow
Key Explore+ features: advanced AI analysis built for modern teams
Explore+ combines advanced analytics with AI-powered capabilities to help you go deeper, faster. Key capabilities include:
- AI-powered summaries for faster insight extraction
- Automated categorization to structure large datasets instantly
- Logo detection and computer vision for visual content analysis
- Speech-to-text for video and audio intelligence
- Risk and spike analysis to identify emerging issues early
- Pulse and sentiment analysis to understand audience emotion
These features turn complex data into clear, actionable intelligence without manual effort.
Scale Across Markets, Regions & Business Units
Enterprise teams don’t operate in silos. Your intelligence shouldn’t either.
Explore+ is designed to support global organizations with consistent data structures, standardized reporting, and the flexibility to adapt across regions and teams. Whether you’re managing multiple markets, business units, or stakeholders, you can align everyone around a single, trusted view of performance.
This makes it easier to scale insights, maintain governance, and ensure that decisions are based on the same underlying data, no matter where they’re made.
Everything you loved about Radarly, now in Explore+
Explore+ brings the advanced capabilities of Radarly into the Meltwater experience.
You get the same depth of analytics and data structuring, now combined with a unified interface and connected workflows across Meltwater solutions. There’s no need to maintain separate tools or processes. Everything lives in one place, making it easier to analyze and act.
Replace Multiple Tools with One Unified Platform
Most teams rely on multiple tools to answer one question. Explore+ brings everything together: Instead of switching between platforms, you work in one connected environment. This helps you reduce costs tied to third-party tools, eliminate data silos, and streamline workflows across teams. In fact, organizations using Meltwater reduced third-party provider costs by over $400,000 and achieved a 242% ROI, according to a Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study.
- Social listening and analytics
- News and media intelligence
- Advanced reporting and dashboards
- AI-powered insights
Why PR & Comms Teams Choose Explore+
Explore+ vs Standard Explore | Explore+ vs Other listening tools | Explore+ vs BI tools |
Greater depth for strategic analysis | Unified view across earned and social media | Purpose-built for media and consumer intelligence |
Multi-layered segmentation and custom fields | Seamless experience across Meltwater solutions | No infrastructure or data engineering required |
Extended historical data for long-term insights | Strong enterprise segmentation and governance | Faster time to insight |
Unlock the Full Power of Your Intelligence Strategy
Explore+ helps you move beyond tracking mentions to understanding meaning.
It gives you the clarity to see how narratives are forming and the tools to act with confidence.
Whether you’re managing brand reputation, guiding communications strategy, or informing business decisions, Explore+ ensures your insights are not just accurate, but actionable.
Explore+: Frequently Asked Questions
Explore is designed for fast, flexible searches and day-to-day monitoring. Explore+ adds deeper analytics, extended historical data, and advanced segmentation for enterprise-level strategy.
Explore+ is an advanced capability within Meltwater and is typically offered as an add-on for teams that require deeper analytics and enterprise-scale intelligence.
Pricing depends on your organization’s needs, including data volume, users, and use cases. Contact Meltwater for a tailored quote.
Yes. Explore+ provides 24+ months of historical data, compared to shorter rolling windows in standard tools.
Yes. Explore+ supports custom fields and multi-layered categorization, allowing you to structure data to match your business needs.
If you’re using Radarly or other advanced tools, Meltwater provides migration support to ensure a smooth transition.
Yes. Explore+ is built within the Meltwater experience, with intuitive workflows and AI assistance to simplify complex analysis.
In many cases, yes. Speak with a Meltwater representative to explore trial or demo options.
Explore+ incorporates and expands on Radarly’s capabilities within a unified Meltwater experience, providing a clear evolution path for enterprise teams.