Monitoring
We capture everything
We don’t just deliver media monitoring and insights, it’s how we empower our clients
Gain your insights
Acumen's extensive digital media archive allows you to conduct unlimited research and simplifies your trend analysis process.
Be informed
Keep up with market changes and developments by employing our industry monitoring services. We have all the knowledge you need to develop your business strategy.
Know your impact
Know what the media is saying about you. Acumen captures every mention of your company across all media platforms.
Strategic Business Decisions
Stay a step ahead of your competitors by tracking all news, media content, and public opinion on relevant brands and industries.
Print Monitoring
Acumen ensures the highest possible rate of accuracy is achieved as its experienced professionals follow a sophisticated and detailed workflow within a strict quality-control process. By monitoring print media cover to cover, we make sure not to miss any media, advertisement, or tender notification.
- Cover to cover print media is captured
- 5,000+ print publications
- 41,000+ articles captured daily
- 24/7/365 monitoring
- 26 countries monitored regionally
- All local languages
- Print monitoring since 1998 (8,820 archived print publications)
Online Monitoring
Our cutting-edge technology captures international online coverage in real-time. Through our manual quality assurance checks, we are able to monitor an extensive online source list regionally and internationally.
- 44,000+ websites
- 588,000 news pages are captured daily
- International coverage
- 86 number of languages
- Cutting edge technology
- Real time coverage
- Online monitoring since 2004
TV Monitoring
Acumen boasts the most extensive broadcast monitoring service in the region. Our portal allows you to find original recordings and any clips relevant to your business requirements. Acumen’s service now includes the option to access global broadcast coverage.
- 650+ TV channels
- 900 hours of news broadcast captured daily
- Global broadcast coverage
- Access to your coverage within 20 minutes of broadcast
- 1000 hours of talk shows and debates - 2200 talk shows per day
- Broadcast monitoring since 2007 (1,544 Channels)
- Longest broadcast archive in the region
Radio Monitoring
We offer you the most extensive broadcast monitoring service in the region. Through our portal, you can access original recordings and find any clips that you need for your business.
- 60+ radio channels
- 26 countries
- 24/7 program options
- 100 hours of news captured daily
- Access to coverage within 20 minutes of broadcast
- Broadcast monitoring since 2009
Social Monitoring
Tracking social media mentions in real time is critical for business. With Acumen, you can access all key social media platforms. You can also customize your coverage to track specific influencers such as companies, VIPs, spokespersons, and key figures on social media. We archive all content.
- Cover over 2 million blogs and forums
- Cover 44+ key social media platforms
- Provide real time coverage
- Capture local dialects
- Manual filtration for accuracy
- Crisis management alerts
Archive Monitoring
Acumen has the largest media archive in the region. It is easily accessed through our portal or data feeds. Use our accurate data, be it in cover-to-cover print media, broadcast recordings, or online coverage to conduct all the research you need.
- Covered print publications since 1998
- Provided online monitoring since 2004
- Provided broadcast monitoring since 2007
- Archived print publications of over 9,000 sources
- Provide immediate access to coverage
- Add 2.3 terabytes of data daily
Solutions
Empower your business with Acumen solutions
Portal
Track your brand, competition and relevant industry news in real time through our customizable portal.
The Acumen portal enables you to access your coverage anytime anywhere through an unlimited number of secure personal logins. Available in both English and Arabic our system has been designed to give you one platform to access all types of media coverage and create your own insights.
With full training you will have the ability to perform detailed searches, create dashboards and newsletters, you can fully customize your account. Talk to our Account Managers directly through an online chat.
- Easy to use search
- Media Type, Media Source, Language, frequency, country
- Subject, Persons, locations, companies and organizations mentioned
- News presenter and talk show host, program type
- Source Class and ranking
- Default and custom options
- Interactive charts and graphs
- Exportable analysis
- Unlimited dashboards per account
- Benchmarking
- Portal available in both Arabic and English
- Customizable unlimited dashboards
- Tailored newsletters
- Client branding options
- White label options
- Personalized folders
Premium Service
Add that extra human touch with our dedicated managers and 1200 + monitoring and research experts.
Upgrade your account to get the premium service including: manual filtration, hand written summaries, translation and consultancy services.
Your dedicated Business Development and Account Manager will ensure you and your team are gaining the most accurate and relevant insight for your business.
- Manual filtration
- Hand-written summaries
- Full translation options
- Manual categorization
- Call to Action notifications
- Daily/weekly reports
- Segregated content
- Full client branding
- Fully customized newsletters
- Arabic and English options
- Executive summaries
- Dedicated Business Development and Account Managers
- Access to support 24 hours a day through our online chat
- High level of customer care
- Access to industry experts
- Full consultancy solutions
- Full portal training
Analysis
Acumen boasts a Research Center that provides all types of comprehensive qualitative and quantitate analysis reports in both English and Arabic.
Over 140 media research experts are available to create and deliver your bespoke media intelligence reports. Take advantage of our consultancy service to determine the most suitable analysis and reports for your organization.
We bring insight on a local and global scale to your strategic business decisions.
- Quantitative statistical analysis
- Qualitative objectional analysis
- Sentiment analysis
- Influencer analysis
- Trend analysis
- Industry analysis
- SWOT analysis
- Paid, earned, shared and owned
- Industry trend analysis
- Brand trends
- Opinion analysis
- Media Perception Indicator
- Change measurement
- Country perception
Data Feeds
With technology becoming more important speak to one of technology consultants regarding data feeds available.
Whether you wish to download or export data, we offer many options. All of our delivery methods are user friendly and enable you to access large amounts of data quickly and easily.
- XML
- RSS
- API
- FTP
Digitization
Our extensive digitization solution is truly unique to Acumen.
We are proud to be the only company that operates centers for digitization, documentation, indexing, and archiving. News and information collection is optimized when it is archived and indexed digitally for your future reference.
Acumen’s technology creates categorized digital libraries that centralize your corporate content in an easily accessible compilation.
- Centralize your information under one portal
- Digitize you content both in English and Arabic
Portal Tour
View your media coverage and insights as it happens with our customizable portal.
About Us
Acumen is more than a media monitoring company
It’s a gateway to global media intelligence
Who we are
Arabia Inform has recently been re-branded as Acumen, established in Egypt in 1997 and Dubai in 2001 to document, archive and analyze media in the MENA region.
Arabia Inform has recently been re-branded as Acumen, established in Egypt in 1997 and Dubai in 2001 to document, archive and analyze media in the MENA region. Acumen is a leader of electronic content from MENA, having the unrivalled distinction of owning four digitization, documentation, indexing and archiving centers – media, advertisements, law, and academic.
It is a 24/7/365 business that never sleeps,
because the media doesn’t either.
At Acumen all content has value: we collect cover-to-cover for print media and every minute of broadcast. Clients who need to understand Arab world politics, culture, business, economy, or society can request raw data, reports and media analysis in Arabic or English, with the complete assurance that there is no bias in the types of content being gathered.
Customized services and research are available upon request.
Why Acumen
- Combined technology and custom services
- Extensive Archive
- Global Reach
- We capture everything
- Excellent Customer Service
- Vast Expertise
Timeline
1997
Arabia Inform founded
1998
Print Monitoring
2004
Online Monitoring
2006
Research Center
2008
Broadcast Monitoring
2017
Re-branded Acumen
Our Team
Mohamed Elewa
Jan Diggs
Abdalla Elewa
Abdelrahman Eliwa
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Media Digest
Media Digest
A deeper understanding of your industry through Acumen's daily updates
Subscribing to Acumen’s media digest will keep you up to date with the latest developments in your industry. We bring local and international news to you, whether from newspapers, magazines, websites, TV channels, radio stations, or social media.
Receive Acumen’s regular digest free of charge with your choice of industry, country, and language.
Countries
UAE
Saudi Arabia
Oman
Qatar
Bahrain
Kuwait
Egypt
Jordan
Industries
Education
Banking & Finance
Real Estate
Political
Travel & Tourism
Retail
Contact
Acumen Worldwide
Your gateway to global media intelligence
Dubai
3905, Platinum Tower, Cluster I,
Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai, UAE
+971 4 513 6836
Egypt
6005, Street 23, Mokattam,
Cairo, Egypt
Saudi Arabia
4660 Prince Mohammed Bin Abdullaziz Road Alsulaimaniah District 6915 - 12243 Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Jordan
3rd & 5th Floor, Abu Nsier Road, Hajzeen Bldg. Amman Jordan
Oman
Holiday Inn Bldg. No. 17, 1st Floor, Office No. 224, Al Mawaleh South Postal Code 121 Seeb, Oman
USA
National Press Building, 529, 14th St. NW Suite #952 Washington, DC 20045
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Media Monitoring
Print
We capture cover-to-cover print media, allowing you to closely track your company, competitors, and industry.
Online
We monitor thousands of websites in multiple languages to deliver the most comprehensive and accurate insights in real time.
TV
Subscribe to our extensive broadcast to view original recordings and perform your own searches.
Radio
Access your coverage within 20 minutes of airing from our extensive list of stations.
Social
Tracking social media mentions in real time is critical for businesses. Our service enables you to access all key social media platforms.
Archive
Acumen has the largest digital media archive in the region and you can easily access that through our portal or data feeds.
Portal
Premium Service
Analysis
Data Feeds
DigitizationPortal Tour
View your media coverage and insights as it happens with our customizable portal.
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