Critical Mention vs Propel

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.

Propel is a web-based media relations platform combining a media database, journalist pitching, press release distribution, media monitoring, and analytics and reporting. Its three paid plans all include unlimited contacts and unlimited pitches. Essentials lists one user and 10 monitoring alerts; Pro allows up to four users and 25 alerts; Premium allows up to seven users and 50 alerts. Propel gives no plan prices and lists pricing as available on request. The service runs on the web. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. Its capabilities cover media research, outreach, distribution, and monitoring, with analytics and reporting also listed for reviewing results.