Critical Mention
Quick answer
Critical Mention, an Onclusive company, monitors TV, radio, online news, podcasts and social media, with broadcast monitoring across 2,500+ international TV and radio channels. It adds sentiment analysis, share-of-voice benchmarking and real-time keyword alerts by email or daily digest. For AI brand visibility it lists ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude and Perplexity, with Priority Source Targets for outreach. A developer API returns TV, radio and podcast content as JSON, and no MCP is mentioned. Pricing is not published.
Best for
PR teams that need broadcast monitoring and AI brand visibility in one place.
Not for
A small team that wants a published price, since none is given and no free plan or trial is listed.
Facts
Pricing
Not publicly published.
From Critical Mention's website, checked Oct 2026.
Sources covered
TV, radio, online news, social media, podcasts, licensed/print content
AI engines tracked
ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity
API / MCP
Developer API returns TV/radio/podcast content, metadata and historical archives in JSON; no MCP mentioned
How MarketHQ compares
| Feature | MarketHQ | Critical Mention |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Free (paid from $29/mo) | Not publicly published |
| Free plan or trial | Free tier, no card required | Not published |
| Sources covered | Hacker News, GitHub, RSS, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, Reddit, LinkedIn, YouTube, X, Perplexity, Product Hunt, Broader web crawl, Bluesky | TV, radio, online news, social media, podcasts, licensed/print content |
| AI engines tracked | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek | ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity |
| API / MCP | Yes, on every paid plan | Developer API returns TV/radio/podcast content, metadata and historical archives in JSON; no MCP mentioned |
Alternatives
- MarketHQ: tracks brand mentions across communities, news, blogs, social and AI answers, with gap analysis and action plans.
- Brandwatch: A large team that needs broad social coverage and has budget for an enterprise suite.
- BuzzSumo: Content and PR teams that want mention monitoring alongside content research and influencer discovery.
- Cision: PR and communications teams that need broadcast, print and journalist-outreach tools alongside AI visibility tracking.
- Contify: A market-intelligence team that wants multilingual news and filings coverage with sales battlecards.
- Google Alerts: Anyone who wants free, zero-setup email alerts on a search term.
- Isentia: PR and communications teams in the APAC region that need broadcast and print monitoring alongside AI View.
- Meltwater: PR and communications teams that need broad media, social and AI-signal coverage in one suite.
- Mention: Small marketing teams that want one broad mention feed across the web, social and news.
- Onclusive: A PR or comms team that wants media monitoring bundled with multi-engine AI visibility tracking.
- Prowly: A PR team that wants pitching, media monitoring and AI-citation targeting in one toolkit.
- Pulsar: A global brand that needs audience intelligence across many languages and regional social platforms.
- Signal AI: Enterprise risk, reputation and comms teams that need licensed premium media data and entity-level analysis.
- Synthesio: Enterprise research teams that want consumer intelligence across social, search and ecommerce signals.
- Talkwalker Alerts: A team that only wants free alerts for brand, topic or competitor mentions, delivered by email, RSS or Slack.
- TVEyes: A PR or comms team that needs TV, radio, podcast and online video mention monitoring with API access.
Related
- Best AI visibility and brand monitoring tools: category shortlists with a disclosed method.
- Glossary: definitions of the terms that come up when comparing tools like this one.
Sources
- Critical Mention: https://www.criticalmention.com (checked Oct 2026)