Skip to content- Social listening centralizes conversations about your brand so that you can join them, while social monitoring measures reputation from higher- level perspective.
- Social listening involves answering and responding to specifically support questions, while social monitoring is for the purpose of marketing intelligence and research.
- Social listening can only be done natively within each social media site, whereas social monitoring requires technology to aggregate sentiment from various places.
- Social listening is done by your sales team to find new opportunities, while social monitoring is done by your marketing team to learn what competitors are doing.