For reliable insights, you need reliable data. With Benchmark, the new version of the Unmetric platform embedded within the Social Media Management suite, we give you and your teams the breadth of data needed to understand your brands' and competitors' content and performance in depth. You can also take advantage of exciting new improvements to further your analysis and improve your workflows, such as cross-network analysis and AI content insights. In this article, learn what to expect with Unmetric's transition to Benchmark, including the differences between both platforms and what improvements we've made with Benchmark.

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Improvements in Benchmark

Unmetric is now even more powerful within the social media management suite as Benchmark.

• Cross-network analysis
• AI-powered content insights
• Unlimited channel analysis with channel slots
• Integration within the Social Media Management suite

Analyzing brands and cross-network analysis

Benchmark has an entirely different interface for analyzing and comparing brands content and performance. However, the main metrics used for benchmarking are the same as in Unmetric and available via two separate dashboards: Brand Insights and Content Analysis.

While the Brand Insights dashboard and Content Analysis dashboards have different focuses (channel-level metrics vs. post-level metrics, respectively), both dashboards have the ability to compare your brands against your competitors’.

The Brand Insights dashboard provides aggregated channel-level metrics.

• To analyze a brand, select it from the Brands drop-down menu.

• Next to each brand you've created in Benchmark, you'll see icons for all of the social network channels you've added for that brand. The brand's channels will be visible when you hover over the network icons of the brand.

• The dashboard supports date and timezone selection.

• All data in the widgets can be exported as separate CSV files and printed in PDF.

Comparison	Unmetric	Benchmark
Main difference	Analysis is possible only for single networks.	Supports single and cross-network analysis.

The Content Analysis dashboard offers further analysis on a brand's content. The dashboard has two main views: the Content and Analysis tabs.

Within the Content tab:

• The dashboard displays the content feed in tile and list view.

• The content can be filtered by Search term and Content type.

Within the Analysis tab:

• The dashboard uses the same filters as the content feed and once applied they are carried over.
• Content analysis displays metrics related to the content (if filters are applied, the metrics are recalculated only for the posts that match the filter criteria).

Connected channels

Connected profiles from Unmetric are known as connected channels in Social Media Management. Connected channels are integrated throughout the whole suite since Social Media Management provides tools to meet multiple social media marketing needs. For example, Publish offers tools to publish content and Measure allows the user to analyze their content's key performance indicators (KPIs). Visit our help center to get an introduction to the modules available in Social Media Management.

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Benchmark vs. Unmetric feature comparison

Feature	Benchmark	Unmetric
Benchmark on Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), and YouTube	✓	✓
Cross-network, cross-channel benchmarking	✓	✗
Iris content insights (OpenAI)	✓	✗
Iris post and comments analysis (OpenAI)	✓	✗
Single Brand Analysis view	✓	✗
“Unlimited channel analysis” with channel slots	✓	✗
Fan/follower size and growth metrics	✓	✓
Analyze content performance	✓	✓
Estimated reach and impressions for Instagram	✓	✓
Estimated reach and impressions for Facebook	✓	✓
Understand content performance using post types (incl. Carousel, Videos, Polls)	✓	✓
Hashtag, keyword search	✓	✓
Downloadable dashboards (PDF and CSV format)	✓	✓
Total and average engagement	✓	✓
Post-level metrics: Engagement, likes, comments, shares, reactions	✓	✓
Post format mix	✓	✓
Local timezone support	✓	✓
Powerpoint (PPT) reporting	April 2024	✓
Estimated reach and impressions	H1 2024	✓
API	✓	✓
Outliers feed	H1 2024	✓
Promoted post detection on Facebook	H2 2024	✓
Post tagging and labeling	H2 2024	✓
Custom engagement formulas	H2 2024	✓
Alerts based on keywords	H2 2024	✓
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube comment metrics	H2 2024	✓
Campaign detection and tracking	H2 2024	✓
Widget/dashboard one-line insights	H2 2024	✓
Image object and color detection	H1 2025	✓
Industry data	H1 2025	✓
Discover	SMM Listen	✓

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Unmetric package vs. Benchmark package

Benchmark's billing model is based on channel slots, compared to profiles in Unmetric. A channel slot represents one individual social account you have linked to a brand in Benchmark. Only one social account, or channel, can occupy a channel slot at a time, but you can change the linked social network utilizing that channel slot multiple times.

Comparison	Unmetric	Benchmark
Social network terminology	Profile	Channel
Resource allowance	Number of profiled (counted monthly)	Number of channel slots
Profile vs. channel usage	Once a profile is used in a dashboard or a report, is counted against the quota and the quota number is reduced. When the quota number reaches 0, you cannot analyze a new profile until you order a new batch of profiles, or until a new month has started. API and application use the same profile quota.	Once you connect a channel to your organization in Social Media Management, your number of available channel slots in Benchmark will reduce. When your available channel slots reach 0, you can analyze a new channel by freeing up a channel slot. To do this, you can remove a channel from Social Media Management that you no longer need. API and application use the same channel slot allowance.
Profile vs. channel quota	Reserving more profiles enables you to analyze more profiles per month.	Reserving more channel slots enables your organization to analyze more channels at the same time.

Unmetric profile management:

Benchmark channel slot management:

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Setup and configuration

Benchmark is integrated as a module within the Social Media Management (SMM) suite, meaning that you can navigate easily between Benchmark and the other modules in your suite. Social Media Management's configuration is flexible and your platform can be configured to only contain Benchmark and the modules of your choice. With the integration, Benchmark’s channel management settings exist within Social Media Management's Organization admin settings. Furthermore, any user settings you update in Social Media Management will apply globally to the entire Social Media Management suite, including Benchmark.

Managing and grouping social networks

Benchmark, we’ve introduced brands, a new way of grouping channels. Groups in Unmetric were generic and assisted with organizing your brands. In Benchmark, groups are replaced by brands to natively support cross-network analysis and comparison of your channels. Aside from your channel slot allotment, there is no limit to the amount of channels you can link to an individual brand in Benchmark.

Comparison	Unmetric	Benchmark
Naming	Groups	Brands
Similarities	A group contains channels from different networks	A brand is a list of channels that belong to one brand from different networks
Differences	Complex setup	Easy, self-served onboarding

Unmetric groups management:

Benchmark brand management:

User management

In both Unmetric and Benchmark, users can be part of teams that have access to certain groups and brands. Access is managed by your organization administrator. Although the interface looks different, the control of the access policies is very similar. For example, in Benchmark, brands can be assigned to multiple teams by the organization administrator.

Comparison	Unmetric	Benchmark
Naming	Team members	Teams

Unmetric group and user management:

Benchmark user management:

User accounts

Comparison	Unmetric	Benchmark
Naming	Account	My profile
Editable fields	Name Password	Name Password

Unmetric user settings:

Benchmark user settings:

Timezone

Timezone in Unmetric is managed on an organization level, while in Benchmark included in the dashboard view and adjustable by the individual user. Because timezone in Benchmark is much easier to access, it can be changed quickly depending on the needs of the user and help to align data between distributed teams in different timezones.

Timezone in Unmetric:

Timezone in Benchmark:

Engagement

Unmetric supports complex engagement formulas that are planned to be integrated into Benchmark and Measure in 2024. 

Comparison	Unmetric	Benchmark
Overview	Customizable per network Weighted formulas	Not customizable Only Total/Average Engagement is currently available

Engagement in Unmetric:

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Unmetric Discover to Social Media Management Listen

Discover is a module in Unmetric that offers content discovery and ideation. Social Media Management provides an alternative module called Listen that enables users to search for content. If you are an existing Unmetric Discover customer, use the guides below to migrate your existing Discover workflows to SMM Listen.

Comparison of Listen and Discover

Feature	SMM Listen	Unmetric Discover
Data coverage	100 million+ web sources	260,000 social media channels
Channel support	Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit + online news, blogs, forums, review sites	Facebook, X (Twitter), Instagram, YouTube (brand channels)
Main use case	Social media monitoring	Content discovery and collaboration
Search and filters	Keyword Platform Sentiment Emotion Gender Author Site Tags Language Location X (Twitter) account type Mention type	Keyword Object Color Industry Geography
Content analysis	Topic analysis through word clouds, topic wheels, top hashtags	Topic analysis through word clouds, image analysis, popularity over time and Breakdown by industry
Reporting	Download individual components as JPEG, PNG, CSV Download mentions in CSV or PDF	Shareable links for Boards, Favorite Topics Download as PDF
Workflow and collaboration	Posts can be tagged and the tag can be used as a filter to view a segment of posts	Topics can be saved and/or added to Favorites for easy reference User can add topics and posts Boards and invite team for collaboration Adding comments in Boards
Product-specific features	Sentiment analysis Emotion analysis Mentions count, reach, peaks Top authors Top interests Audience demographics Reports Export data Email alerts	Add content to a Board Export data
Help center resources	Listen help center	Unmetric Discover help center

Listen search workflow

• Search and filter the result using the filters on the left

• Sort the result

• Tag content for filtering

• View metrics

Discover search workflow

• Search and filter the result

• Sort the result

• Add content to a Board

• View metrics

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Additional information

APIs

The Unmetric API is currently available as part of Unmetric. The channels that are organized in groups are visible and readable from the API. Visit our Unmetric API technical documentation to learn more.

The Benchmark API is available as part of Social Media Management's APIs collection.

Help centers

For help with Unmetric, please visit the Unmetric help center. For help with Benchmark, please visit our dedicated section on Benchmark in the Social Media Management help center.