+ Meltwater

One platform for every brand, every conversation, every decision.

You are standing up an internal agency across RV, marine, cargo, bus and van, and truck. This is the package built to give that agency one clean read on reputation, performance, and what your social and content spend is returning.

Your proposed partnership

Annual investment
$45,000 / year
Standard pricing $65,000
You save $20,000
This pricing is approved and held through June 30, 2026. It reflects an executive-approved reduction tied to a Q2 start.

What is included

  • 1
    Media Intelligence SuiteReal-time monitoring across news, social, blogs, reviews, and broadcast for all 40+ Forest River brands, with share of voice and sentiment benchmarking.
  • 2
    Social ListeningFull-firehose listening with 15 months of retroactive data to baseline reputation, including the anti-RV sentiment you flagged.
  • 3
    Klear Influencer MarketingDiscovery, vetting, campaign management, and end-to-end reporting. 3 users, 100 managed influencers.
  • 4
    40 hours of managed servicesOur team builds your environment, search architecture, and GM-ready reporting so your agency starts in week one.
No auto-renewal Net 30 payment terms Full onboarding from day one Dedicated account team

Expansion paths available as the agency grows: LLM and AI visibility tracking for the new website launch, and the media relations database with hundreds of thousands of journalists. Added when you are ready, not bundled in to inflate day-one cost.

Built around what your team told us

Each thing you raised, mapped to what you would use.

The need

Justify and consolidate social and content spend

"Is this efficient? Is it effective? What should we consolidate, start, stop?" across a sprawling number of accounts.

In this package

Media Intelligence + Social Listening

One benchmarked view of every brand and competitor, so consolidation decisions are backed by data, not guesswork.

The need

Reputation management and anti-RV sentiment

"Reputation management, we don't have any idea." Social listening becomes critical as anti-RV sentiment rises.

In this package

Social Listening with 15 months of history

Baseline sentiment now, catch shifts early, and see how you perform against key competitors reputationally.

The need

High-level reports for general managers

Followers, engagement, impressions, sentiment, and side-by-side post comparison to decide what content to keep making.

In this package

GM-ready reporting + Mira summaries

Custom dashboards plus Mira, the AI layer, to turn a dashboard into a board-ready executive summary in seconds.

The need

Faster influencer discovery and vetting

Build the influencer program at scale, find net-new partners like the RV travel creators you already work with.

In this package

Klear influencer platform

Klear scoring plus your own custom score to vet faster, run campaigns, and measure start to finish in one place.

Who you are partnering with

The global leader in media, social, and AI intelligence.

27,000+
Customers in 130+ countries, including more than half of the Global Fortune 500
2,200+
Employees across 50 offices on 6 continents
>99%
Platform uptime, with 24/7 follow-the-sun support
2001
Founded in Oslo. 20+ years building and structuring this dataset

One platform, unified coverage across:

Online newsBroadcast & podcastsBlogs, forums & print X, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedInRatings & reviews LLMs: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews

Meltwater vs Sprout Social

Sprout manages your social. Meltwater measures your whole picture.

You asked for the honest difference between the two. Sprout is a strong social media management tool, scheduling, publishing, and community engagement. That is real, and if you want it we pair you with our partner Vista Social. Where Meltwater wins is everything upstream of posting: unified listening, news and traditional media, the journalist database, and AI visibility. For a brand-new social team building from scratch across 40+ brands, that consolidation is the difference between reporting on a fraction of the picture and seeing all of it.

Capability by capability

Capability
Sprout Social
Meltwater
Enterprise social listening
Add-onPremium add-on, est. $10k, limited analytics
IncludedCore to the platform
Reddit & X data depth
SampledSampled data, limited history
Full firehosePlus 15 months retroactive
News & traditional media monitoring
Separate toolVia NewsWhip, in a separate platform
UnifiedNews, broadcast, podcasts, print in one place
LLM & AI visibility (GEO)
NoNot offered
YesChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews
Media relations / journalist database
NoNot offered
YesHundreds of thousands of journalists, podcasters, writers
Influencer marketing
TaggerSeparate platform, integration challenges reported
KlearNative discovery, management, reporting
Search & filtering
Boolean onlyAND / OR operators
AI searchNatural-language AI search assistant
AI insight layer
TrellisSummarizes social activity
MiraExecutive summaries built for PR and comms
Social media management (scheduling/publishing)
StrongA genuine strength
Via partnerPaired with Vista Social

Source: Meltwater competitive enablement, Sprout Social battlecard, updated March 2026. Sprout strengths shown honestly, social management is theirs to win.

Why the investment makes sense for Forest River

The case is consolidation, guardrails, and getting ahead of AI search.

One source of truth across 40+ brands

A new agency cannot run on a tool that reports a fraction of the data. Unified intelligence means every GM report and every consolidation call is backed by the same complete picture.

Reputation guardrails before issues spread

With anti-RV sentiment building, listening with 15 months of history lets you baseline now, catch shifts early, and benchmark reputation against competitors.

Relevance in AI-driven search

As organic results get pushed below AI answers, your 40-URL website launch needs AI visibility tracking. Sprout does not offer it. This is where you get ahead, not behind.

Speed for a lean team

Mira turns dashboards into executive summaries in seconds, and managed services build the environment for you. The platform speeds the team up rather than adding work.

Prepared by Keifer MacInnes, Senior Account Executive, Meltwater  ·  keifer.macinnes@meltwater.com  ·  Pricing held through June 30, 2026