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AirCheck India gives radio a memory
A radio ad lasts seconds. AirCheck India turns that passing sound into a searchable record - and a reason for a salesperson to pick up the phone.
The news moved on. Arabia Inform kept it.
Yesterday’s newspaper can become tomorrow’s research question. Arabia Inform has spent decades turning Arabic media into a searchable record - and a business built on remembering.
The 136-Year-Old Clipping Bureau That Arrived at AI Without a Product Page
Industry Insight AI wears the biography of America’s oldest press-clipping service. The name points forward; almost everything verifiable points to a 136-year lesson in what happens when the medium you monitor disappears.
The Morning the Press Review Learned to Think
AITASTIC is betting that the valuable part of media monitoring begins after the mention is found. Its machine reads the noise; its people decide what deserves a morning meeting.
Fullintel Put People Back in the Machine
Media monitoring promised to automate the morning briefing. Then the alerts became another job. Fullintel built its business on a counterintuitive fix: keep the software, and put trained readers back in the loop.
PublicRelay and the Seven Stories That Matter
Most media software promises to find everything. PublicRelay built a business around a fussier proposition: find the few things worth acting on, then put a human name behind the answer.
The One-Campaign Rule: How Be Broadcast Made Less Work Its Selling Point
A Manchester PR consultancy grew by rationing its most valuable resource: senior attention. The constraint became the product.
Handraise Is Trying to Measure the Moment a Story Becomes a Belief
The Austin company began by helping PR teams amplify a good article. Then AI changed the more interesting question: not who saw the story, but what the machines learned from it.
The Machine Still Needs a Pair of Eyes
Intelligent Media has spent more than 25 years making a contrarian bet: publicity data becomes useful only after somebody checks the work. Its hybrid of software, human verification and custom reporting turns a flood of mentions into a brief a publicist can actually use.
The News Machine Still Needs a Human in the Loop
News Exposure built a national monitoring business around a counterintuitive idea: the faster the news cycle becomes, the more useful a careful pair of human eyes can be.
The Last Mile of Media Monitoring Is Still Human
DigiMent Research is betting that the hardest part of media intelligence is not finding more mentions. It is deciding which ones deserve a human being's attention.
CARMA wants PR to show its working
Counting headlines is easy. CARMA sells the harder job: explaining what coverage means, whether it helped, and what a communications team should do next.
Roxhill Media sells the homework behind a better pitch
A journalist’s email address is only the beginning. Roxhill combines media research, outreach and coverage analysis to help PR teams decide who deserves a pitch - and what happened after they sent it.
Cision UK wants to make every headline answerable
A £110 million insurance refund shows what media intelligence can measure. Cision’s next test is tracking what AI says about your brand.
Cision Spent Billions Building the Control Room for Corporate Attention
The 150-year-old descendant of a Swedish clipping bureau now watches news, social feeds and AI search for 75,000 organizations. Its bet is simple: the company that can measure attention can help steer it.
NewsCatcher
NewsCatcher is a news and web search API company that turns the open web into a clean, structured database of real-world events. It pulls from 90,000+ global sources, then deduplicates, enriches, and standardizes the articles so risk, finance, and AI teams can query news the way they query a database. Founded by Artem Bugara and Maksym Sugonyaka, it went through Y Combinator in Summer 2022.
Camphouse
Camphouse is a Stockholm-based enterprise software company that runs an intelligent media operations platform for advertisers and agencies. Formerly known as Mediatool, it centralizes media planning, budget allocation, campaign activation and reporting into a single system of record, layering an AI Co-Pilot on top so data-driven marketers can turn scattered spreadsheets and media plans into structured, end-to-end media intelligence. Its customers include global brands and agency networks such as L'Oreal, Heineken, Dentsu and Jellyfish.
Zignal Labs
Zignal Labs is a San Francisco-based intelligence software company that turns publicly available information into structured, real-time situational awareness. Founded in 2011 as political-media startup Politear, it pivoted into broader media analytics and now positions itself as a national-security intelligence company delivering AI and agentic tooling. Its platform ingests billions of open-source signals daily across 100+ languages, using machine learning, computer vision, and OCR to detect narratives, track influence, and flag emerging threats for enterprise, government, and defense customers.
Clipbook
Clipbook is an AI-native platform for communications and corporate affairs teams. It monitors over one million media and policy sources - press, broadcast, podcasts, social, regulatory filings - and uses agentic AI to surface what actually matters, in real time. Founded in 2023 by ex-BCG consultant Adam Joseph, Clipbook bootstrapped to seven figures in ARR before raising a $3.3M seed round co-led by Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, and Carpenter Capital in late 2025.