The top political monitoring platforms for PR, political, and public affairs professionals
Things move fast in politics. If you’re an organisation with political stakeholders, political monitoring you can rely on is a must.
For choosing the right platform for your needs, here are the best political monitoring platforms for those in PR and communications, public affairs, and marketing.
1) Vuelio
Political Monitoring is just one of the solutions the multiplatform Vuelio offers for those working in the PR, comms, marketing, media, political, and public affairs industries. Alongside an international media database, press release distribution, and campaign analysis solutions, and stakeholder management, Vuelio provides political monitoring and a fully integrated political database.
This comprehensive public affairs platform monitors everything happening across the UK’s Parliaments and Government departments, as well as important moves in the wider political ecosystem. Going beyond monitoring, Vuelio opens up the ability to directly engage with key political stakeholders and make meaningful contributions to policy. Find details for parliamentarians, special advisors, council leaders, and council chief executives, and get full visibility of conversations happening via traditional sources – parliament, committees, briefings, press, and blogs – as well as social media platforms.
Political content is analysed by the dedicated in-house team and delivered in a format tailored to you and your team, in Vuelio Political Reports, downloadable seasonal reports, and election specific newsletters.
2) Dods Political Intelligence
Dods aims to inform, educate and advise on parliament and policy, offering coverage on regulatory changes and more. Its political intelligence services include monitoring and research to aid in the reach of communications and campaigns.
Personalised alerts on policy and political issues come from a bank of historical information from a variety of sources across the UK and EU.
Originally founded in 1832, Dods focuses on a human-driven approach in favour of AI-amplified results.
3) DeHavilland
Combining in-house expertise with technology, DeHavilland political monitoring aims to provide users with political data from thousands of sources. Updates are tailored to provide teams with what they need to know and cut out irrelevant noise.
Information is gathered from government, parliament, European parliament, and committees and is shared in a digestible format by team analysts and policy researchers.
Alongside monitoring, the platform offers insight and stakeholder management for public affairs and government relations.
4) PolicyMogul
This platform aims to offer comprehensive and timely monitoring, cutting out government and political developments that may be irrelevant. Offering AI-written summaries designed to contextualise political updates, ‘near real time’ data is available for specific areas of interest.
Alerts – which focus on verified information over potentially overwhelming real time updates – can be shared via email or the platform’s integration with Slack.
PolicyMogul also offers a political stakeholder CRM and embeddables that can be added to websites or blogs.
Offering briefings and client catch-ups, Navigate Politics UK offers ‘human-led’ services to help public affairs leaders stay ahead of political updates.
The automated user interface is designed and delivered by in-house public affairs professionals, sharing updates in daily briefings, alerts, and summaries that are custom-built for public affairs teams. Users can choose from morning briefings, mid-morning round-ups, live coverage, tailored summaries, and weekly grids.
6) PoliMonitor
Used by public affairs and communications professionals from organisations big and small, PoliMonitor helps its users understand and engage with political discussions.
On offer alongside the monitoring is stakeholder mapping, relationship management, transcripts and summaries, client relationship management, research and reports, horizon scanning, and an integrated contact database.
With over 45 years of experience in monitoring the political sphere, Randall’s offers coverage of Westminster, Whitehall, the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and the Northern Ireland and Greater London Assemblies. With email and web-based distribution systems, this platform’s parliamentary monitoring has coverage of debates, questions, motions and select committee activities and its general political monitoring covers party political news and policy developments.
Randall’s also provides stakeholder monitoring, and political and parliamentary advice.
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