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Competitive Insights & Benchmarking

Collecting and analyzing competitor data is a time-intensive and often challenging task for brand managers, marketing teams, content creators, and market researchers. These personas face multiple challenges while trying to conduct competitive analysis on social media including –

  • Inability to gather all relevant data

  • Too much time is spent managing and aggregating large volumes of data

  • Difficulty in finding the right KPIs and metrics to track and benchmark social performance

These challenges prevent teams from realizing the benefits of competitive intelligence. A comprehensive competitive intelligence model can positively influence a brand’s marketing, care, and product strategies.

Sprinklr Benchmarking offers a unified solution for gathering and gaining insights from outbound content posted by your brand, competitors, or key individuals on social media. Templatized dashboards powered by AI-powered aggregations, intuitive visualizations, and alerting capabilities will help you build a comprehensive social media benchmarking strategy.

Why Benchmarking?

Sprinklr Benchmarking unlocks key use cases for social media analysis. These include –

  • Benchmark social media performance against competitor brands using industry-standard or customized KPIs

  • Set realistic goals on major KPIs by finding out how you stack up against key industry players

  • Stay on top of brand and industry social crises using AI-powered and custom alerts on anomalies around account activity, engagements and follower count

  • Track engagement trends to identify the factors that drive engagement among the target audience

  • Discover focus areas by identifying which social networks and media types are garnering the highest engagements

  • Content inspiration using AI-powered categorisation of posts into content tones, content themes, objectives, and customer journey stages

  • Evaluate your content strategy's strengths and weaknesses by comparing engagement and follower growth trends to past performance and competitors' performance

  • Benchmark paid ROI by identifying which posts are being boosted by your competitors and how much they are spending

  • Ensure sponsorship compliance by monitoring posts published by your retailers and brand ambassadors

  • Discover ways to establish thought leadership by tracking public profiles of executives from your own and competitor brands

  • Identify potential partner influencers by tracking their engagement rates and existing brand affiliations

  • Ensure positive brand perception by monitoring response rate, time to respond and fan sentiment on public fan comments

  • Streamline your response process with AI-powered identification of top call drivers and engageable customer queries