Critical Mention vs JustReachOut

Critical Mention is an earned media monitoring suite for broadcast, online news, social media and podcasts. It monitors more than 2,500 television and radio stations worldwide, with downloadable clips and unlimited cloud storage. Broadcast reports can use custom templates and branding, and include share of voice, sentiment and publicity value metrics. Online news tracking covers millions of sources and more than 90 languages, with instant alerts and audience, publicity and geographic metrics. Reports can be scheduled or sent through RSS to tools such as Slack. Social monitoring covers Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter/X, and supports keyword searches beyond handles and hashtags. Podcast monitoring offers real-time alerts, searchable speech-to-text transcripts, editable clips and sentiment analysis. Its media contact database provides millions of records, with filtering, exports and requested human-vetted contact updates that the company says are made within 24 hours. API partners can access TV, radio and podcast content, metadata and historical archives. Search results remain available for up to 26 months. Pricing is on request; technical and account support is listed as available 24/7/365.

JustReachOut is web-based PR software for finding journalists and pitching them with AI assistance. Its journalist search covers a database of 700k+ contacts, and the outreach tool generates pitch emails and schedules follow-ups. A separate tool gathers pitch requests from six sources for keyword or category searches. Users can also find podcasts, contact them with templates, and schedule follow-ups; other listed tools cover broken-link building and guest-post outreach. The site says journalist email addresses are manually verified. Its pricing FAQ says the service is for building journalist relationships rather than press release distribution, does not offer database-only access, and does not allow mass pitch emails. The pricing note says plans start at $98/mo (annual). A seven-day trial is offered only on monthly plans and requires a credit card. Listed monthly options include Starter Outreach at $147 a month, with one team member, outreach for one brand, and 100 email sends per month. The founder says the service was created to help people such as solopreneurs, authors, startups, small businesses, and musicians handle PR themselves.