NewsWhip Spike is a web-based media monitoring platform from NewsWhip, headquartered in Dublin and founded in 2011. It combines live web and social content with public engagement data to show which articles and posts are gaining attention and to estimate engagement up to 24 hours ahead. Monitoring covers news and content from Facebook, Reddit, X, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok, with coverage described as spanning every country and language. Dashboards, real-time feeds, and Timeline views help users follow a topic’s scale, direction, and the relationship between public and media interest during a crisis, event, or trend. Predictive alerts and AI Digests filter incoming material. Notifications can use email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams, and Timeline data can connect to PowerPoint. Boolean search has no stated usage limit. Slack alerts can use public channels or direct messages, but not private channels. Pricing is available by contacting sales.
Who it is for
It suits newsrooms, brands, communications agencies, media companies, and nonprofit organizations tracking public attention. It is also suited to teams needing social, news, and web monitoring in one dashboard.
What is good
- Monitors six listed social networks
- Predicts engagement up to 24 hours ahead
- Boolean search has no usage limits
- Alerts support email, Slack, and Teams
- Covers every country and language
What to know first
- Pricing requires contacting sales
- Slack alerts cannot use private channels
Verdict
NewsWhip Spike brings broad web and social monitoring together with engagement predictions, dashboards, alerts, and digests. It is a paid service with pricing supplied on request, and Slack’s private-channel restriction is important for some teams.
NewsWhip Spike plans and pricing
All plansCompared on social media listening software
- Social network coverage
- Facebook, Reddit, X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok
- Web monitoring
- Yes
- News monitoring
- Yes
- Alert channels
- Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams
