BuzzSumo
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Media Mentions In Minutes. Content Ideas For Days. The Media Database That Really Understands Journalists
How to Replace BuzzSumoOverview
Features
35 features across 16 categories
AI(3)
Write relevant pitches faster with AI-powered assistance.
Drawing on data from the Content Ideas Generator, helps you build content briefs on any topic at the click of a button.
Brings together billions of headlines and crucial content components including subheadings, keywords, SERP results, questions, and engagement data to help generate endless ideas for content research, creation, and distribution.
API(2)
Push information from your Alerts, or access your saved Projects with our Account API.
Query our database for article, influencer, trend, and top sharer data. Get relevant engagement metrics flowing into your dashboards alongside any other data source.
Browser Extension(2)
Expand your capabilities while you browse with custom analytics when viewing profiles on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok. See engagement ratios and related profiles.
Research content on the go and analyze social engagement while browsing search engines and websites. Examine key competitor metrics in seconds.
Content Analysis(3)
Track the uptake of backlinks to domains and URLs over time.
Analyze Facebook page performance, improve campaign performance, and benchmark against competitors. Compare post types and engagement trends.
Evaluate the success of organic and paid YouTube content with engagement data on views, video length, likes, comments, and social engagement.
Content Management(2)
Batch upload URLs and coverage to Projects to get a top-level overview of content engagement. Perfect for regular reporting to clients and stakeholders.
A multi-use workspace for tracking and saving the content discovered within BuzzSumo, including articles, journalists, influencers, and questions.
Content Research(5)
An inspiration index of billions of pieces of content published around the globe. Tap into the most engaging articles across any topic, URL, or domain.
Tap into historic engagement and search the archives of the 8+ billion pieces of content in BuzzSumo's Content Analyzer.
Search customer questions across millions of forum posts, including Amazon, Reddit, Quora, and Q&A sites.
Unlock BuzzSumo's vault of topic ideas and real content examples. Search a topic to discover a word cloud of similar themes mentioned in the most engaging content.
Identifies and categorizes the day's most viral posts published in the past 24 hours. Follow custom or curated feeds to see what's trending worldwide or in your industry niche.
Influencer Research(4)
Find the most influential Facebook pages related to a specific topic.
Find the most active and influential TikTok users around your subject.
Find the voices most valuable to you on Twitter. Search based on the content of influencer tweets or the information in their bios.
Find the most influential YouTube channels related to a specific topic.
Integration(2)
BuzzSumo data up with other apps such as Zapier or IFTTT, and bring your reports to life.
Plug your alerts directly into your chosen Slack channels and build media monitoring into your daily routine.
Journalist Outreach(3)
Access journalist information including interests, top content, contact information, and the publications they write for in a single profile.
Find and engage with 700K journalists most relevant to your specific topics. Find journalists writing about your brand, market, and competitors with 330K monthly profile updates.
Build media lists of key journalists and see what they've published today in a single click of a button.
Monitoring & Alerts(2)
Set up custom alerts to get notified of media mentions and engagement via email for topics, brands, keywords, and competitors.
Monitor your competitors, brand mentions and industry updates.
Monitoring & Reporting(1)
Find out all you need to know about your past month's media mentions. Discover publication data and social media engagement, mention count, placement, and excerpts.
Reporting(1)
Export search results, reports, and more into a CSV, Excel, or PDF file.
SEO Tools(1)
Benchmark your search success against competitors across thousands of keywords. Explore search volume, inform paid strategies with CPC data, and analyze search and social trends in tandem.
Search & Filtering(1)
A more granular Media Database search that allows you to filter location by state.
Support(2)
Receive tailored personalized support.
Explore tutorials, guides, and articles on anything you need about BuzzSumo.
Pricing
Content Creation
- ✓1 User
- ✓Unlimited Searches
- ✓2 Alerts
- ✓Content Analyzer
- ✓Trending Feeds
- ✓Question Analyzer
- ✓Exports
- ✓Projects & Items
- ✓2 years historical data
PR & Comms
- ✓5 Users
- ✓Unlimited Searches
- ✓5 Alerts
- ✓Everything in Content Creation
- ✓Media Database & Outreach
- ✓Coverage Reports
- ✓Slack Integration
- ✓15 Alerts limit
- ✓3 years historical data
- ✓20 journalists per list
Suite
Popular- ✓10 Users
- ✓Unlimited Searches
- ✓10 Alerts
- ✓Everything in PR & Comms
- ✓YouTube Analyzer
- ✓Advanced Chrome Extension
- ✓Article Uploads
- ✓30 Alerts limit
- ✓5 years historical data
- ✓100 journalists per list
- ✓10k articles/month monitoring
Enterprise
- ✓30 Users
- ✓Unlimited Searches
- ✓50 Alerts
- ✓Everything in Suite
- ✓RSS Feed Sync
- ✓Granular Location Search
- ✓Early Access To New Features
- ✓50 Alerts limit
- ✓5 years historical data
- ✓600 journalists per list
- ✓Priority Customer Support
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Total Cost Comparison
DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 35 features at very easy complexity.
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Integrations
10 known integrations