Market study: Social Listening

Choosing the right tool for social listening and sentiment analysis is not easy, because the range of solutions and platforms is very large and difficult to keep an overview of. The selection of software - or even a combination of tools - is the first and not so easy hurdle for the use of social listening,
especially for SMEs.

There are already some market studies, but they are either partly outdated, or they are not suitable for the German-speaking market.

 

Project information

  • Creation of a market study that offers orientation, especially for SMEs, and can be used as a basis for decision-making.
  • Making the study accessible online
  • Secondary research (quantitative and qualitative)
  • Interviews with experts
  • Evaluation and weighting of tool properties using an evaluation catalog
  • Connection to teaching: free elective module, course of studies online communication
  • Integration into two teaching projects in the online communication degree program
  • Transfer measures
  • Communication concept for publication
  • Publication as topic hub on Mittelstand 4.0 Competence Center Communication
  • Systematic market study available for publication online
  • The study is aimed at SMEs with up to 250 employees, small communications and marketing agencies, and the academic environment.
  • Nearly 120 tools were identified, of which a total of 67 were then reviewed.
  • Based on the criteria defined for the target group of the study, 24 of these were
    comprehensively examined and evaluated for the study

Applied research project for teaching, thereby improving teaching quality, especially B.Sc. Online Communication.

Transfer of results:

  • Findings are published in a manner suitable for SMEs as a topic hub on Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum Kommunikation.
  • Findings will be included in book publication by Alexa & Siegel in preparation.

Findings flow into book publication by Alexa & Siegel

Study: Social Listening Tools - Online platforms & tools for monitoring and analyzing online
communication Download the german version of the study

Status: completed

Funding: no external funding

Participants of the h_da: Prof. Dr. Melpomeni Alexa and 7 Bachelor students: Theresa Wahl, Christian Daum, Martin Ille, Samuel Mink, Laura Seremet, Angelo Stockinger, Tanja Theimer.

Project information

Duration 2019 - 2020

Project participants of the h_da: Prof. Dr. Melpomeni Alexa, Theresa Wahl, Christian Daum, Martin Ille, Samuel Mink, Laura Seremet, Angelo Stockinger, Tanja Theimer.