Social media listening

Social Media Listening and Monitoring

Go beyond vanity metrics. Burrow’s social media listening and monitoring service turns online conversation into competitive intelligence — available 24/7 from our Sydney command centre.

Social media listening - Burrow command centre

24/7 Social Media Listening and Monitoring Services

Most brands know what their customers are saying on their own channels. Fewer know what’s being said everywhere else. Burrow’s dedicated team of Australian-based community managers delivers true social media listening and monitoring — tracking sentiment, mentions, and conversations across the open web, not just your owned platforms. The result is a complete picture of your brand’s reputation, in real time, with the human expertise to act on it.

Monitor every conversation that matters

From direct mentions and tagged posts to unprompted brand discussions across forums, news sites, and social platforms, our monitoring captures the full breadth of your brand’s online footprint — so nothing slips through undetected.

Understand sentiment, not just volume

Raw mention counts tell you how loud the conversation is. Sentiment analysis tells you what it means. Burrow’s community managers go beyond automated scoring to assess context, tone, and intent — delivering insight your marketing team can actually use.

Turn listening into action

Paired with our social media monitoring and analysis capability, our listening service connects the dots between what audiences are saying and what your brand should do next — from adjusting messaging and surfacing product feedback to identifying influencers and spotting emerging trends before they peak.

Catch what your team can't — before it becomes a crisis

The conversations most likely to damage your reputation rarely happen on your page. They build quietly across comment sections, community groups, and review platforms until they reach a tipping point. Burrow’s always-on social media listening and monitoring infrastructure — staffed by 30 trained community managers operating from our purpose-built Sydney command centre — ensures those signals are caught early, escalated fast, and addressed before they amplify. Our social media monitoring for public safety capability extends this vigilance to organisations where the stakes are highest, and our 30-minute response time means action is always taken before the situation worsens.

The brands that listen loudest grow the fastest

Social listening isn’t just a defensive play — it’s one of the sharpest growth tools available to modern brands. Understanding what your customers want, what your competitors are missing, and where the market is heading gives you the kind of strategic edge that no ad spend can buy. As a specialist social media monitoring agency with deep expertise across Australia, Burrow translates what people say about your brand into content strategy, product insights, and customer experience improvements that compound over time.

Frequently asked

FAQs

What you get

Coverage that reads like your team, not a dashboard.

  • Curated feeds tuned to your risk profile.
  • Coverage of the places bots miss - private groups, niche forums, closed communities where we have legitimate access.
  • Weekly synthesis, not a raw firehose.
  • Sold standalone or bundled with monitoring.
Why Burrow

Trained community managers, not automated alerts.

Ears everywhere

The places your customers actually talk.

Context, not counts

Analyst-written summaries, not dashboard charts.

Priority-tuned

Watchlist tuned to what actually matters for you.

How it works

A continuous loop, backed by real people.

  1. 01

    Listen

    Across owned and non-owned channels, tagged or not.

  2. 02

    Moderate

    Respond in your tone of voice, inside agreed guardrails.

  3. 03

    Escalate

    Route what matters, fast, and stay through to resolution.

  4. 04

    Report

    Executive-ready read-outs when leadership needs a clear picture.

Ready when you are

Bring your brand under watch.

Tell us where you're up to. We'll come back with what an engagement could look like - monitoring, listening, community management, or the full loop.

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Something happening right now?

Our 24/7 incident hotline goes straight to a community manager on the command centre floor, any hour, any day.

24/7 Incident hotline