Socialhose.io
Media monitoring software
Social media listening tools
Public relations (PR) software
Social media marketing software
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What is Socialhose.io
Socialhose.io is a media monitoring and data aggregation platform that collects and normalizes content from online news, blogs, and social sources into a searchable feed and API. It is used by PR, communications, and analytics teams to track brand and topic coverage, build custom news streams, and integrate media data into internal tools. The product emphasizes configurable content pipelines (filtering, enrichment, and de-duplication) and programmatic access for downstream analysis and alerting.
API-first content access
Socialhose.io provides programmatic access to monitored content, which supports integration into BI tools, internal dashboards, and custom workflows. This approach fits teams that need to operationalize media data rather than only view it in a UI. It can reduce reliance on manual exports when building recurring reporting or automated alerts.
Configurable filtering and enrichment
The platform focuses on building tailored streams using keyword logic, source selection, and content processing such as de-duplication and metadata enrichment. This helps teams reduce noise in high-volume topics and improve the consistency of downstream analytics. It is particularly relevant for organizations that monitor multiple brands, markets, or themes with different rules.
Broad online source coverage
Socialhose.io is positioned around aggregating content from a wide range of web sources (e.g., news sites and blogs) alongside social inputs. This can support use cases like share-of-voice tracking, issue monitoring, and competitive coverage tracking across open-web media. It is useful when teams need a unified feed rather than managing many individual source subscriptions.
Less emphasis on end-user UX
Compared with platforms that center on analyst workbenches, Socialhose.io’s value proposition leans toward data delivery and integration. Teams that want a fully guided, out-of-the-box PR workflow (campaign planning, approvals, and stakeholder-ready reporting templates) may need additional tooling. Non-technical users may depend more on prebuilt configurations from admins.
Advanced analytics may require tooling
Capabilities such as sentiment modeling, entity resolution, and deep audience/consumer insight often depend on the organization’s own analytics stack or add-on processing. If a team expects turnkey dashboards and insight narratives, they may need to build or integrate those layers. This can increase time-to-value for smaller teams without data engineering support.
Source transparency and coverage variability
As with many aggregators, coverage can vary by geography, language, and publisher accessibility, and some sources may be restricted by licensing or technical constraints. Buyers typically need to validate source lists, refresh rates, and historical depth against their specific monitoring requirements. Ongoing governance is often required to maintain consistent coverage as sources change.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Reddit Starter | $29 per month | Up to 5,000 mentions/month; up to 10 campaigns; up to 100 keywords; real-time monitoring; API access; intended for Reddit-only or limited monitoring. (Shown on trial selector.) |
| Starter | $99 per month | Up to 15,000 mentions/month; up to 10 campaigns; up to 100 keywords; AI-enriched sentiment; email digests. (Billed monthly; annual option saves ~20%.) |
| Pro High | $495 per month | Up to 100,000 mentions/month; up to 50 campaigns; up to 500 keywords; high-frequency monitoring; advanced analytics. |
| Pro | $799 per month | Up to 50,000 mentions/month (site shows variants); up to 50 campaigns; up to 500 keywords; advanced analytics; export and webhooks. (Also shown on Pricing page as $799/mo.) |
| Enterprise | $1,799 per month | Up to 200,000+ mentions/month (site lists larger allowances up to 500k in some views); unlimited campaigns & keywords; unlimited stakeholders; custom/white‑label options; book a demo for custom terms. |
Add-ons and usage-based extras (official site lists):
- Additional Seats: $29 / user / month.
- Additional Standard Live Searches: $5 / live-search / month.
- High Frequency Upgrade: $79 / live-search / month.
- Crisis Upgrade: $249 / live-search / month.
- Mention Overage: $9 / 10,000 mentions.
- Premium Support: $299 / month.
- Additional Smart Lists: $29 / 10 lists / month.
- Additional Members (mailing list subscribers): $29 / 50 members / month.
Notes:
- Annual billing is offered with ~20% savings (site displays both monthly and annual prices).
- A 14-day free trial (no credit card) is offered; trial page lists the same plan options for trial signup.
Seller details
Socialhose
New York, New York, United States
2015
Private
https://socialhose.io/
https://x.com/socialhose
https://www.linkedin.com/company/socialhose
