For Agencies · Multi-client teams
Social listening for agencies — FishOut
The agency problem is not finding mentions, it is that six clients times ten platforms is sixty feeds and one person. What makes it work is separation — per client, per keyword set, per channel — and not paying per seat for it.
Reddit
LinkedIn
Google News
YouTube
Four keyword shapes that work here
One keyword set per project, which is what keeps client A out of client B’s inbox. Adding them all to one project is the mistake that makes the whole thing unreportable.
The mention a client is most likely to see before you do, and the one that generates the most urgent email. Cheap to watch, expensive to miss.
What the monthly report is actually made of. Share of voice is a comparison, and you cannot make one from a single brand’s mentions.
The lead generation half of the retainer — people describing the client’s problem without naming anyone. It is the one keyword shape that produces new business rather than reporting.
The setup that survives a busy month
One project per client
Projects are unlimited on every paid plan. Each carries its own Brief, keywords, agents and alert channels, so nothing crosses over and each client’s numbers are their own.
Write each client’s Brief
Two to six sentences on what the client does, who it is for and what to ignore. Every post in that project is read against it, which is how a client whose brand is also an ordinary word stops pulling in the other meaning — those posts go to Filtered and never count toward your plan.
Add the whole team, and the client
Team members are unlimited and not priced per seat, so a client contact who wants to look at their own queue costs nothing. That is a deliberate difference from the seat-priced tools in this category.
One Slack channel per client, one floor per channel
A retainer client at a lower relevance floor, a client on a watching brief at a high one. Each channel has its own floor, and a burst arrives as one digest rather than twenty pings, which is how a small account stops generating more noise than a large one.
Start the day from the Daily brief
Once a day per project: the posts worth engaging with today, plus Spikes — a keyword suddenly getting far more posts than usual. It is the account-management to-do list, and the built-in Advocates view (brand keyword plus Praise) is the screenshot for the monthly report.
When a post on the client’s brand keyword is labelled Complaint or reads as negative
Then assign it to the account lead, send it to that client’s Slack channel, and draft a reply for the lead to edit
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What this costs. Unlimited team members on every plan and unlimited projects on every paid plan — there are no per-seat charges. Business at $99/mo covers 500 keywords, 40,000 relevant mentions a month, agency funding of client organisations and scheduled reports.