Critical Mention vs Prezly Newsroom

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.

Prezly Newsroom is a web-based tool for distributing press releases, pitching journalists, monitoring media, and reviewing analytics and reports. Its plans combine a newsroom site with contacts and tools for publishing stories and running campaigns. Essential provides one site, one user, 5,000 contacts, and unlimited stories and campaigns. It costs €100/mo billed annually. Standard costs €250/mo billed annually and raises the allowance to two users and 10,000 contacts while retaining unlimited stories and campaigns. Enterprise has custom site and user limits, a custom site layout, premium onboarding, 24/7 support and live training, single sign-on, and a 99% uptime SLA; its price is custom. Prezly Newsroom has no free plan, but a 14-day trial is offered. The company is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. The listed product scope covers release distribution, journalist pitching, media monitoring, and analytics and reporting. Essential is the smaller fixed plan, while Standard increases users and contacts.