What is Brand24 and what does it monitor?
Brand24 is an AI-powered brand monitoring and social listening platform — available at brand24.com — that tracks mentions of your brand name, product names, competitor names, and any other keywords you configure, across 25 million+ online sources. Monitored sources include all major social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube), news sites and media outlets, blogs and independent publications, discussion forums including Reddit, podcasts (via transcript monitoring), review platforms, and newsletters. Every mention is captured in real time, classified with AI sentiment analysis (positive, negative, or neutral), scored by the source’s reach and authority, and surfaced in a chronological mention feed. Brand24 also provides aggregate analytics — sentiment trend charts, Presence Score (a single metric for brand visibility over time), share-of-voice comparison with competitors, top sources, and influencer identification. Features include Storm Alerts for crisis detection when mention volume spikes abnormally, automated email digests, Slack integration, and custom PDF report generation for client delivery. Brand24 is used by 4,000+ brands including IKEA, Intel, H&M, and Uber. ThriveOnz360 recommends it for e-commerce brands, D2C founders, marketing teams, PR agencies, and SME owners across Singapore, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia.
How is Brand24 different from Google Alerts?
Google Alerts monitors only the portion of the web that Google has chosen to index for its web alert system — which excludes the majority of social media content (Google cannot fully index Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X, or LinkedIn posts), most forum discussions, most review platforms, and a significant proportion of blog and news content. Brand24’s monitoring is categorically broader: it monitors 25 million+ sources including all major social platforms, forums, podcasts, reviews, and news comprehensively — not just what Google’s indexing algorithm selects. Beyond coverage, Brand24 provides intelligence layers that Google Alerts does not: AI sentiment analysis on every mention, reach and influence scoring on the source of each mention, aggregate analytics including share-of-voice and Presence Score, Storm Alerts for velocity-based crisis detection, influencer discovery from the mention data, and automated reporting. For a Singapore or Malaysia-based brand that needs to manage its online reputation seriously — Brand24 is not a paid upgrade of Google Alerts, it is a categorically more capable product that provides intelligence Google Alerts cannot deliver at any price. Google Alerts is appropriate for basic web index monitoring with no social coverage and no analytical layer. Brand24 is appropriate for brands that need comprehensive monitoring, crisis detection, and actionable intelligence across the full landscape of online conversation.
Does Brand24 monitor social media posts that don’t tag our brand account?
Yes — this is one of Brand24’s most commercially important capabilities and a key difference from native platform analytics tools. When Brand24 monitors your brand keyword, it tracks every mention of that keyword across the monitored platforms — including posts, comments, and discussions that mention your brand name without tagging your official account handle. The significance of this for brand management is substantial: the majority of organic brand conversation on social media does not tag the brand’s official account. When a customer writes “just got my package from [Brand Name] and the quality is amazing” on Instagram without tagging the brand, that mention is invisible to the brand’s Instagram Insights dashboard but fully visible in Brand24’s mention feed. For Singapore and Malaysia-based e-commerce brands whose customer conversations on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and community groups are primarily untagged organic discussions — Brand24’s untagged mention tracking provides the genuine picture of organic brand perception that native analytics cannot show. This capability is particularly valuable for brands that want to find and respond to customer service opportunities (negative untagged mentions), amplify positive organic advocacy (highly-engaged positive untagged posts), and understand the true volume of organic brand conversation beyond the echo chamber of tagged interactions on the brand’s owned channels.
How does the free trial work? What is included?
Brand24 offers a free 14-day trial with no credit card required to start. During the trial period, you receive full access to all features on the plan tier you selected when signing up — meaning if you sign up for the Team plan trial, you have access to all Team plan features including competitor monitoring and influencer discovery for the full 14 days. The trial begins from the date of account creation and runs for exactly 14 calendar days. ThriveOnz360 practical recommendation: use the first two days to set up all your keyword projects and alerts, so you have the maximum time to observe the mention feed, understand your brand’s online presence, and evaluate Brand24’s intelligence quality before the trial expires. Before the trial ends, you will receive an email from Brand24 prompting you to choose a paid plan to continue — if you do not convert, account access is suspended at the end of the 14-day period and your monitoring data is retained for a period in case you choose to subscribe later. If the platform delivers the brand intelligence value ThriveOnz360 expects for your use case, converting to the annual billing plan provides meaningful cost savings versus monthly billing — confirm the current annual discount at brand24.com/pricing.