Making the work
Growing an audience
Running the business
Brand24 watches social networks, news, blogs, forums and podcasts for your name and alerts you with sentiment and reach attached, priced for a business at $199 a month with no free tier. GummySearch instead reads Reddit for what an audience already says, sorting posts into complaints and patterns before anyone has a reason to mention you by name, free for 50 searches before Starter at $29. Brand24 assumes people are already talking about you; GummySearch is for finding out what to build before that is true.
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| Starting price (they differ) | From $199 | From $29 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial (they differ) | 14 days | None |
Alerts when your name turns up anywhere
Brand24 watches social networks, news, blogs, forums and podcasts for a keyword and tells you when it moves, with sentiment and reach attached. For a creator that is the difference between hearing about a video that mentioned you and not. The entry plan is priced for a business rather than for a person, which is the honest reason most individuals stop at the trial.
Our note
The API costing extra on every tier is the detail buried furthest down the page, and it changes the total for anybody planning to pipe mentions elsewhere. For a solo creator, a saved search and an alert do most of this for nothing.
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Audience research done on Reddit
GummySearch reads Reddit for you: which subreddits your people are in, what they complain about, what they already pay for. It sorts posts into patterns rather than handing back a search results page, which is the difference between reading Reddit and researching it. The free plan is enough to find out whether your audience is there at all.
Pick GummySearch if the question is what to build or write next rather than who is already talking about you, since it reads Reddit for existing complaints and patterns rather than waiting for a mention. It is far cheaper too, Starter at $29 a month against Brand24's $199, and the free plan's 50 searches are enough to learn whether your audience is even on Reddit.
Pick Brand24 if you already have a name, product or reputation that gets discussed without being tagged, and need to know when volume or sentiment moves. The $199 a month entry price is built for a business, not an individual, and API access costs another $99 on every tier, which is easy to miss when pricing it against a research tool like GummySearch.
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| API | Yes | Not stated |
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| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
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| Their cut | Not stated | None |
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| Runs on (they differ) | Web, iOS, Android | Web |
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| Covers | Research & Trends, Analytics, Brand Deals & Sponsorships | Research & Trends, SEO & Discovery |
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| Works with | Podcast, Reddit |
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| Founded | Not listed | Not listed |
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| Reader rating | No reviews yet | No reviews yet |
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| Live deals | None right now | None right now |
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Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Our note
This is the cheapest honest audience research in the catalog, because the raw material is people talking without being asked. Use it before SparkToro when your market is consumer, and after it when your market is business.
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