The newest Forrester Wave on social listening platforms expresses disappointment in the category

The coverage by social listening tools is expanding beyond social networks, but there are few clear differentiators between vendors and social data is still not extensively utilized across customer companies.

Those are some of the main takeaways from the new Forrester Wave quarterly report, “Q3 2018 Global Social Listening Platforms.” (Available as a free download from some of the mentioned vendors, such as Talkwaker or Synthesio, both of which require user registration.)

“In our 2016 Forrester Wave ™ evaluation of social listening platforms,” authors Jessica Liu and Arleen Chien write in the newest report, “we acknowledged that the technology had great potential, but its heyday was still to come. We’re still holding our breath in 2018.”

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Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.