
Pendulum Launches Agentic AI for PR
Seattle's Pendulum Intelligence launches an agentic AI suite for communications teams — Ask Pendulum, plus a stack of autonomous agents for trend discovery, monitoring, and executive briefs.

Seattle's Pendulum Intelligence launches an agentic AI suite for communications teams — Ask Pendulum, plus a stack of autonomous agents for trend discovery, monitoring, and executive briefs.

Sixty percent of brands run social listening. Less than ten percent run it well. The four common mistakes \u2014 brand-only queries, campaign blindness, legacy platform footprint, AI prompt layer ignored.

Media monitoring is the discipline of knowing what is being said about a brand, a competitor, or a category — and knowing it fast enough to act on. The five coverage layers, the tooling landscape, and what separates the programs that work.

Viralheat: predictive social analytics pioneer, founded 2011 by Raj Kadam and Vishal Sankhla, acquired by Cision March 2015. The technology became CisionOne.

Brandwatch, Sprinklr, Meltwater, and Talkwalker power modern brand reputation monitoring. How the social listening category works in 2026 — and the AI-engine retrieval gap that none of them cover yet.