Whats the best television clipping service/media monitoring service?
And for another option, you could consider my company’s product — SnapStream, www.snapstream.com. We are not a clipping service and don’t provide coverage in a bunch of different markets. With SnapStream you make a one-time up front investment in our product (starting at $15,000). You connect your incoming TV signal to your SnapStream TV search appliance and setup a schedule of recordings using a program guide. Then, over the LAN, you can search TV by keyword, create TV clips, burn those clips to DVD, download then to use in Final Cut Pro or Avid, etc. There are no per clip fees — you can create as many as you’d like with no extra cost. It can also be accessed widely across your organization without additional costs. And a lot of our customers use both a clipping service and SnapStream. SnapStream for a majority of their clips and because they want the highest possible quality and no clipping fees and a clipping service for out of market stuff. So depending on your use case SnapStrea
Another vote for VMS (full disclosure: I manage the monitoring department there). We offer just about any solution that fits your needs, and I stand by what my team can do. We use human monitors for a significant portion of programming, and this would be an ideal solution for when a website it mentioned. Sometimes only the URL is flashed on screen, or a graphic is shown. Closed captioning won’t pick this up (which is what other services use, and we use as a supplement), but my human monitors will. If you want a sales rep to contact you, check out: http://www.vmsinfo.com/Contact.p…
The Current Atmosphere in the Media Monitoring Industry Print Monitoring The environment of Newspaper clipping services or print monitoring is this. National coverage there are two large companies Cision (formerly Bacon’s) and BurellesLuce. They cover most of the daily papers across the country, and some of the weekly papers. If you are looking for a general national search one is just as good as the other. However, if you need the grassroots coverage from all of the local papers in a particular area, then you should look for a regional service, like Magnolia Clipping Service in Mississippi and Alabama. Regional services cover EVERYTHING in that regional Daily, Weekly B-Weekly, Monthly, Bi-Monthly, Semi-Annual, and most magazine published in their coverage area. All of the traditional clipping services in North America belong to an organization called the North American Conference of Press Clipping Services NACPCS. Some Press Associations have their own clipping services, but they only
