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Press Highlights

Who’s mentioned Mention? Here’s some of our recent coverage online:

• « Mention Introduces New Standard Alert for Smarter Social Listening » AUGUST 2021 - TechRound

• « The Importance of Social Media for Online Brands » JULY 2020 - JOURNAL DU NET

• « Instagram Best Practice for 2020: Focus on comments in a post-like landscape – and try ‘nano-influencers’ » MARCH 2020 - MARKETING TECH NEWS

• « Instagram: a study on engagement trends » FEBRUARY 2020 - LE BLOG DU MODERATEUR

• « A Day in the Life of Jean-Philippe Baert, CEO of Mention » FEBRUARY 2020 - ECONSULTANCY

• « Three Key Ways Social Listening Can Improve Your Customer Marketing » JANUARY 2019 - MARKETING TECH NEWS

• « Mention Launches Publish for Social Media Management » JUNE 2019 - DESTINATION CRM

• « Instagram Video Posts Receive Twice the Engagement of Other Post Types » FEBRUARY 2019 - SEARCH ENGINE JOURNAL

• « Instagram engagement trends businesses need to know for 2019 » FEBRUARY 2019 - BUSINESS LEADER

• « 4 ways to make a splash on Instagram » FEBRUARY 2019 - PR DAILY

• « How to Measure Your Customers' Happiness Score (and Why That Matters) » JULY 2018 - ENTREPRENEUR.COM

• « New Instagram Report indicates hashtags have no effect on engagement rate » APRIL 2018 - SOCIAL SAMOSA

• « New Report Looks at Instagram Usage Trends, and How Brands Can Tap Into Shifts » MARCH 2018 - SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY

• « How To Protect Your Brand From Angry Customers In The Reputation Economy » MARCH 2018 - FORBES

• « 12 Really Bad Business Cliches People Still Use » FEBRUARY 2018 - INC.

• « Paris-based Mention launches new enterprise services, reaches 500,000 users » MAY 2016 - TECH.EU

• « How Mention Went From Zero to 350K Users In 3 Years » OCTOBER 2015 - GROOVE

• « Fine tune your automation tools - what B2B marketers are sharpening skills with today » JULY 2016 - THE DRUM

• « Whiteboard Friday: How to Estimate the Total Volume and Value of Keywords in a Given Market or Niche » JUNE 2015 - MOZ

• « Watching The Web: Talking Social Media Monitoring With Mention » JUNE 2015 - SPOKAL STARTUP SPOTLIGHT

• « Slack Everything: How to Turn Your Team's Communication App Into Central Command » MAY 2015 - ZAPIER

• « Mention CEO Matthieu Vaxelaire discusses their big 2015 plans » JANUARY 2015 - RUDE BAGUETTE

• « Mention Turbo-Charges its ‘Google Alerts for the Social Web’ as it Prepares for US Expansion » SEPTEMBER 2014 - THE NEXT WEB

Press Releases

Read the lastest Press Releases from Mention here:

• Global survey reveals that 41% of marketers say Covid-19 led to an increase in marketing channel investment April 28, 2022

• 2021 Instagram Engagement Report: Over 100 million public posts analyzed May 6, 2021

• Volunteer-based COVID-Solidarity.org uses social media to find ‘helpers’ April 14, 2020

• The Instagram Engagement Report: Surviving the Instagram Algorithm in 2020 March 2, 2020

• Jean-Philippe Baert appointed as Mention’s CEO November 19, 2019

• International students are using social media to choose UK universities September 30, 2019

• ‘Listen before you post’ Mention launches Publish feature for smarter social media management June 18, 2019

• New Report: Instagram Engagement Trends Businesses Need to Know February 25, 2019

• Only 1 in 5 can explain Artificial Intelligence February 5, 2019

• Mention Releases Social Report on Global Retail Industry; 6.1M Online Mentions Collected December 11, 2018

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About Mention

Mention enables brands and agencies to leverage media monitoring and social media in order to increase brand awareness. By tracking a brand, competitor, or industry topic - our platform allows customers to compare and analyze online conversations to create content based on important social and web insights.

Mention’s superior listening capabilities have helped over 4,000 enterprise clients such as Spotify, Airbnb, MIT, and Microsoft to improve their communications and marketing strategies.

We’re on a mission to help companies make smarter business decisions based on relevant social insights.

With over 750,000 users worldwide in 125+ countries, our global solution is managed by a team of over 60 people based in Paris and NYC who continue to innovate our product and it’s offering, to meet the needs of our fast-paced industry.

Company Milestones

You’re probably more interested in the cool things we’re doing now. But if you want to know where we came from, here’s a bit of our history.

November 2011

Mention’s first line of code was written

June 2012

The company reached its first incredible milestone of collecting 1 million mentions across the web and social media

January 2013

Mention was officially an established company and raised €500k in seed funding from Alven Capital and Point Nine Capital

March 2014

We delivered 1 billion mentions

August 2014

Wired Magazine names Mention one of Europe’s hottest startups

February 2015

After surpassing 250K users on basic plans, Mention opened a US office in the heart of NYC

April 2015

Mention is named a finalist in The Next Web’s Tech5 France

January 2016

Mention launches Mention Enterprise and introduces Boolean queries.

July 2016

Mention now serves 750,000 customers in more than 125 countries

August 2018

Mention reached $5.4M ARR and was acquired by Mynewsdesk, owned by NHST Media Group

June 2019

Mention launches Publish, its first Social Media Management feature

November 2019

Jean-Philippe Baert is appointed as Mention's CEO

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