Broadcast Media Intelligence for Reputation Management: eMedia Monitor Wins GOLD at the 2026 DataComms Awards
Recognition from Communicate Magazine’s DataComms Awards marks the latest in a series of major industry accolades for eMedia Monitor’s broadcast intelligence platform, following Silver at the 2025 DataComms Awards and Gold at the 2025 AMEC Communication Effectiveness Awards
eMedia Monitor (eMM), the broadcast intelligence platform and global leader in real-time radio, TV and web-TV monitoring, is proud to announce that it has been awarded GOLD at the 2026 DataComms Awards, in the category ‘Best Use of Data to Assist Reputation Management’. The award was presented at the DataComms Awards ceremony held in London on 18 June 2026.
The DataComms Awards, run by Communicate magazine - the UK’s leading publication for corporate communications and stakeholder relations - recognise and celebrate the intelligent use of data in corporate communications, whether through sharp measurement and evaluation or thoughtful, data-led strategy. Now in its fifth year, the programme has established itself as the benchmark for excellence in data-driven communications across the UK and beyond.
eMM’s winning entry demonstrated how its real-time broadcast monitoring platform enables communications professionals to detect, assess and respond to reputational risk signals as they emerge across thousands of broadcast channels, in multiple languages and markets simultaneously - turning raw media data into decision-ready intelligence at the speed that modern reputation management demands.
This award marks an important moment in eMM’s growing awards track record. At the 2025 DataComms Awards, eMM was recognised with Silver in the ‘Best Real-Time Response’ category, with judges acknowledging the company’s DART platform for its ability to substantially reduce the time between a broadcast event and a client’s awareness of it. That recognition now builds directly into eMM’s GOLD in the ‘Best Use of Data to Assist Reputation Management’ category at the 2026 edition - demonstrating how eMM’s real-time capability translates into sustained reputational advantage for its clients.
The DataComms success follows eMM’s Gold at the AMEC Communication Effectiveness Awards 2025, awarded in the category ‘Most Effective Planning, Research and Evaluation – MENA’, in partnership with the Ministry of Media, Saudi Arabia. The AMEC award, presented in London in November 2025, recognised how eMM’s platform enabled advanced media research, strategic planning and comprehensive evaluation to drive measurable communication outcomes. Together, these awards reflect a consistent theme: that eMM’s technology does not merely monitor media - it transforms broadcast data into structured intelligence that changes how organisations plan, protect and evaluate their communications.
“Winning GOLD at the 2026 DataComms Awards in the ‘Best Use of Data to Assist Reputation Management’ category is a recognition that means a great deal to us - because reputation management is precisely the area where the quality of our data, and the speed at which we deliver it, matters most. Reputational risk rarely announces itself in advance. It surfaces in a broadcast, spreads across markets within hours, and demands a response before most organisations have even identified the threat. Our mission is to close that gap. This award validates that we are succeeding - and it reinforces our commitment to building the most capable, most reliable real-time monitoring platform in the world.”
“For our international clients, the 2026 DataComms Award sits alongside the 2025 AMEC Gold and our 2025 DataComms Silver as clear, externally validated proof that eMM’s platform delivers not just in controlled conditions, but in live operational environments, across global markets. The organisations we work with are managing reputations across borders, across languages and across broadcast ecosystems of enormous complexity. What they need - and what this recognition confirms we provide - is a platform that turns that complexity into clarity, in real time. I am enormously proud of what this award represents for our team and for the clients whose trust we have earned.”
The DataComms Awards, published by Communicate magazine, celebrate the smart, strategic and creative use of data across corporate communications. Categories span data insight, data use and data communications - recognising how organisations interpret, visualise and deploy data to strengthen communication and understanding. Past winners include Allied Universal and Onclusive, UK Finance and FleishmanHillard, NatWest Group, Aramco and CARMA. For more information, visit www.communicatemagazine.com/award/datacomms-awards
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eMedia Monitor (eMM) is a Vienna and New York based broadcast intelligence platform and the technology and innovation leader in worldwide radio, TV and web-TV monitoring. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austria, eMM provides global media intelligence solutions that transform complex broadcast and media data into structured, actionable insights - enabling communications professionals, media analysts and corporate executives to make faster, better-informed strategic decisions.
eMedia Monitor continues to innovate at pace. Its award-winning contextually relevant media monitoring solutions help clients automate tasks including narrative intelligence, risk identification and topic clustering.
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eMM’s proprietary DART platform delivers real-time alerts, trend analyses and BI-ready datasets for campaign evaluation. Its technology is fully owned and operated without third-party dependencies, providing clients with reliability, data ownership and custom configuration at scale.
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