Monitoring & analysis

Social Media Monitoring and Analysis

Burrow is Australia’s leading 24/7 community management agency, delivering expert social media monitoring and analysis for enterprise brands, government departments, and complex organisations. Operating from a purpose-built Sydney command centre, our team of 30 trained community managers combines the most powerful monitoring technology available with the human intelligence to interpret what the data actually means — and act on it before it matters most.

Monitoring & analysis - Burrow command centre

Expert Social Media Monitoring and Analysis, Around the Clock

Effective social media monitoring and analysis goes beyond collecting data. It requires experienced analysts who can separate genuine risk from background noise, identify emerging trends before they peak, and translate raw social intelligence into strategic direction — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Continuous monitoring across every major platform

Burrow’s social media monitoring and analysis service covers all major social platforms — including Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, and review sites — ensuring no significant mention, sentiment shift, or emerging risk goes undetected. Our team operates on rotating shifts, 365 days a year, with a 30-minute average response time on every alert.

Analysis that goes beyond the algorithm

Technology flags activity. Our team interprets it. Every significant mention is assessed by a trained community manager who understands brand context, audience dynamics, and escalation thresholds — ensuring the analysis your team receives is accurate, contextual, and actionable, not just a feed of automated notifications.

Structured reporting and strategic intelligence

End-of-day activity reports, escalation logs, sentiment trend summaries, and performance analysis give your leadership team a clear, structured view of your brand’s online landscape. Burrow’s social media monitoring and analysis reporting is designed to inform decisions — not simply document activity.

Social media monitoring and analysis built for organisations with complex needs

No two organisations face the same social media landscape. A government agency managing public consultation requires different social media monitoring and analysis protocols to a retail brand tracking product sentiment or a university managing thousands of student interactions daily. Burrow’s team is trained across eight industry verticals — education, government, retail, insurance, health, mining, trade, and property — bringing sector-specific knowledge to every monitoring brief.

Our social media monitoring agency capability is built on enterprise-grade platforms including Sprinklr, Meltwater, Brandwatch, and Sprout Social — giving clients access to the most powerful social media tracker technology available, operated by an experienced Australian team who know how to use it effectively.

For organisations in high-stakes environments, Burrow also provides social media monitoring for public safety — monitoring and analysis protocols specifically designed for government bodies, emergency services, and public institutions where community safety and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable.

Transition from listening to action

True social media monitoring and analysis is not a passive activity. It is a continuous cycle of listening, interpreting, acting, and reporting — carried out by people who understand your brand, your audience, and what is at stake if something goes wrong at 11pm on a Friday.

Burrow’s social media listening and monitoring capability captures the full breadth of online conversation — from direct brand mentions and tagged posts through to untagged references, competitor activity, and broader industry sentiment. Combined with our social media monitoring Australia-wide coverage, no conversation that matters to your brand falls through the gaps.

With clients including Specsavers, Stockland, Bunnings, Macquarie, UNSW, and Monash University, Burrow has a proven record of delivering social media monitoring and analysis at the scale, speed, and standard that Australia’s most active online brands demand.

Frequently asked

FAQs

What you get

Coverage that reads like your team, not a dashboard.

  • Sentiment analysis with a human check.
  • Trend lines contextualised against the calendar and news cycle.
  • Competitor benchmarking on request.
  • Custom cuts for comms, marketing, legal or product.
Why Burrow

Trained community managers, not automated alerts.

Trends that mean something

Charts written up, not just drawn.

Deeper reads

Ad-hoc analysis for the questions leadership brings.

Structured reporting

Cadence that matches your rhythm.

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.

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