Meltwater

Disappointing Tool, More Disappointing Support & Client "Success"

From a services/support/client success perspective, this is where the disappointment continues. Despite messaging our "client success manager" of our desire to not renew and cancel our subscription, we continued to receive a mix of promotional and reengagement emails and outreach. It got to a point where we asked our "client success manager" to please disable our instance of the platform so our team would stop receiving the useless alert emails that were filling up our inboxes. Despite several emails, our CSM never replied to the emails or heeded our request to disable our account. We later interacted with the online chat support to work with a human being to deactivate our account. This time, we were told that our request would be passed on to the appropriate team members and acted upon immediately; however, nothing ever happened. We eventually found the email of a [sensitive content hidden] for client success and forwarded the response. They finally responded and said we had to participate in an exit interview before they would formally close our account. We politely declined given the back and forth that had already taken place and asked for our account to be disabled/terminated. After several weeks, this has still not been addressed, and the [sensitive content hidden] has not responded to any emails since.How you treat your clients when they leave you should be the same as how you treat them the day before they sign with you. It's disappointing to see a company respond (or

I will never recommend any Meltwater products or services

Overall, I will never recommend Meltwater as a product or service. Their staff aren't knowledgable and their salespeople sneak auto-renewals into their contracts to keep people on as customers. As a company no one is able to take responsibility and they don’t offer genuine support for their customers

Disingenuous business practices

Our organization is a client of Meltwater's and found the service was not benefiting us. The reports, stats and information provided were not beneficial.

I indicated to the account specialist, I wasn't sure we would be renewing when they sent me a confirmation for renewal on October 26, 2018. Their only discussion was about getting me best prices. I did not sign the renewal confirmation. Our services were to end January 14, 2019. At no time did they mention automatic renewal or that I needed to send a formal notice of termination.

On December 7th, in response to their many emails asking me to sign the renewal confirmation I advised them we would definitely not be renewing - 38 days before the services were to end. For the first time, they advised me we were automatically renewed and they would be sending us a bill. They said it was "preset"

I asked for the contract and was shocked to see the termination terms aren't even listed on the main contract page - they are instead buried in a link, under topics such as spam. A link, of course, can be altered at any time.

The contract document defines start and end dates, and makes no mention of automatic renewal. Your account reps make no mention of automatic renewal. I find this disingenuous.

Coup de gueule contre la société Meltwater

Coup de gueule contre la société Meltwater avec qui nous avons eu quelques déboires ces dernières années.
Très bon service commercial qui a réussi à nous convaincre que Meltwater était la meilleure solution… mais grosse déception pour la suite !
Lenteurs pour configurer tous les paramètres complexes, conception par leurs services de la newsletter très laborieuse, conseillers techniques qui ne parlent pas tous Français ou très mal.
Une fois tout configuré, les informations que leurs moteurs trouvent correspondent à ce qui se passe sur la toile donc ça dépend essentiellement de votre actualité.
En revanche au moment de renouveler le contrat ça se gâte, augmentation de 60%, reconduction tacite, commercial qui ne parle pas Français, etc. Des méthodes certainement contractuelles mais que je qualifie de voyous.
Je précise que la signature se passe électroniquement en ligne, sur un contrat écrit tout petit et que l'on ne peut pas imprimer avant de le signer. C'est seulement une fois signé que vous recevez le contrat avec les conditions générales de vente. Dans celles-ci il est spécifié que meltwater n'est pas tenu à des résultats, etc.
Si vous vous laissez convaincre, pensez bien à supprimer la non reconduction tacite du contrat ou à dénoncer celle-ci dès signature.

A éviter !

Très mauvaise. Si le service commercial est très bon pour vous faire choisir leur solution, le reste l'est beaucoup moins..... Je n'ai aucune confiance dans les données de leur BdD, je dois à chaque fois vérifier que les données sont toujours bonnes.
De plus, en lisant les CGU, ils n'ont aucune obligation de résultat ni de fiabilité :
"Meltwater fournit le Site « en l’état » sans aucune garantie ou condition expresse ou tacite, de quelque nature que ce soit. Meltwater ne garantit pas un fonctionnement sans interruption, sûr ou sans erreur du Site. Meltwater ne formule aucune déclaration ou garantie quant à l’exactitude, au caractère actuel, à la qualité, à l’exhaustivité, à la pertinence ou à la fiabilité des informations ou données figurant sur le Site ou auxquelles le Site permet d’accéder."

Terrible for Analytics

I don't see how any analyst tested this tool. Doesn't include what I consider basic functionality. Requires multiple unnecessary steps to analyze data.

Expensive tool made for big corporations but not for start-ups