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PodData and Meltwater, Cision and Muck Rack
Meltwater, Cision and Muck Rack sell monitoring, a journalist database and press-release distribution to PR and comms teams, on annual contracts. They’re built for breadth across many kinds of media.
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What Meltwater, Cision and Muck Rack offer, and what PodData does
Facts about Meltwater, Cision and Muck Rack are from their own pages, as read on Nov 12, 2026. PodData’s column says what’s live and what’s in pilot.
Podcasts
| Meltwater | 20,000+ podcasts, an add-on since Feb 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cision | 35,000+ podcasts |
| Muck Rack | 2.4M podcasts indexed, 75,000+ with English transcripts |
| PodData | Live 85 named shows, mostly long interviews with the people building AI, plus markets, news, sports and science, as of Nov 13, 2026 |
Everything else
| Meltwater | 400,000+ print titles, 200M+ online sources, licensed news, TV and radio in all 210 US markets, 15+ social networks |
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| Cision | Print, online, and 2,700+ TV and radio stations (supplied by TVEyes); social is a separate product |
| Muck Rack | 600,000+ outlets; print through LexisNexis; TV through TVEyes as an add-on; social as an add-on |
| PodData | Live Podcasts and long interviews only |
Alerts
| Meltwater | Within 2–5 minutes, by email, app, push, Slack, Teams, webhook or SMS |
|---|---|
| Cision | Real time, by email, app, Slack or Teams |
| Muck Rack | Instant or daily, by email or Slack, filtered by sentiment and prominence |
| PodData | In pilot Trackers written as one sentence, matched by meaning, sent by email (each quote, or a daily digest), Slack or a webhook |
How alerts match
| Meltwater | Boolean searches |
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| Cision | Boolean streams, which an AI assistant can write |
| Muck Rack | Boolean, plus an AI search agent |
| PodData | In pilot By meaning, from one sentence you write |
Who is speaking
| Meltwater | Not labeled in podcast or broadcast transcripts |
|---|---|
| Cision | Not labeled in podcast or broadcast transcripts |
| Muck Rack | Not labeled in podcast or broadcast transcripts |
| PodData | Live Named only when the evidence agrees, otherwise marked “Speaker unconfirmed”. Never from a voice print |
API and data
| Meltwater | REST with streaming webhooks; an MCP server on Enterprise and Agency plans |
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| Cision | A pull-only REST API at 10 requests a minute; no MCP |
| Muck Rack | A read-only API on the top plan; MCP “upcoming” |
| PodData | In pilot A REST API, webhooks and an MCP endpoint, returning quotes with their speaker, second and page to cite |
Price
| Meltwater | Contact sales; annual, with a 12-month minimum |
|---|---|
| Cision | On request |
| Muck Rack | Contact us |
| PodData | In pilot Free; the Data API at $499 a month or $4,999 a year; Enterprise by annual contract. Nothing can be bought yet |
Sources, read Nov 12, 2026: Meltwater’s page , Cision’s page , Muck Rack’s page . PodData’s numbers are as of the date beside them.
Where they differ
In short
- The suites cover print, online, broadcast and social, and add journalist databases and distribution. PodData does none of that: it covers podcasts and long interviews, and it’s built for the quote.
- PodData names who is speaking, so “our CEO said” and “someone mentioned our CEO” are different alerts.
- PodData’s trackers match by meaning from one sentence, not Boolean rules (in pilot).
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