What is Social Listening?
Tuning into what consumers are saying tells you everything you could ever need to know about your audience – allowing you to say exactly the right thing when you speak.

3 Things you Need to Know
- Social media listening is searching the web and the social space to see what’s being said about your company, your competitors and other topics of interest.
- There are dozens of different ways to use social listening for your business.
- Natural language processing (NLP) is key to obtaining accurate customer sentiment.

What is "Social Listening" for
Are demographics useless then? No – but they’re not the end-all-be-all. Demographics give you a starting point – that audience you assume you have. But when you delve into psychographic attributes you’re often surprised to discover your audience is more expansive than you realized.
How to gain better results with Social Listening?
- Segments of “feel-alike” users – those with shared interests they are passionate about, because emotion is what drives social sharing.
- Which channels your audience is most active on – they might not be the ones you expect.
- The content, topics, and trends your audience can’t help but interact with and share.
- Who your Advocates and Influencers are that drive the most engagement.
- Where is the most opportunity to connect with audiences psychographic attributes.

Social Listening Articles
How Will Advertisers Reach Sports Fans with The World Stuck Inside?
With no real end of the Coronavirus, aka Covid-19 in sight, how will companies and brands reach sports fans on their couches, when so much of their regular advertisements are typically tied up in live sports? Next Generation AI-powered consumer and marketing...
Consumers’ Values Should Direct High Stakes Crisis Response
You’ve spent years building your brand and one hiccup sends things south. Do you have an action plan in place to respond quickly? Hotwire Global understands that consumers’ values should direct any high stakes crisis response, as do other online leaders with their...
Consumers Dislike Sound & Other Timely Trends
Knowing how to advertise to a diverse crowd of consumers can be tricky, and a little more time consuming than most businesses would like. Adding to that complexity, current trends indicate that consumers dislike sound in their ads. And there’s more. Let’s take a quick...