What is SocialHose?
SocialHose (socialhose.net) is a media-intelligence and social listening platform. Brands and agencies use it to track what is being said across social networks, 150+ million news sites, blogs, forums, and broadcast media, then turn those mentions into dashboards, alerts, sentiment, and newsletter-style reports. It is built for PR, comms, and market-intelligence work: coverage tracking, share of voice, and shareable client reporting.
How SocialHose works
You tell SocialHose the brands, topics, or competitors to watch, and it pulls matching mentions from across the web into one place. From there you slice the data into dashboards and exports. The deliverable is knowledge: what the internet is saying, how sentiment is trending, and where a conversation is happening. Acting on any single mention is a manual step you take afterward.
Where SocialHose is strong
Breadth. If you need to watch news, blogs, forums, and broadcast alongside social, SocialHose covers far more surface than a Reddit-only or social-only tool, which is exactly what a PR or agency team needs. Reporting is a first-class feature, not an afterthought, so packaging coverage for a client or a weekly digest is straightforward. The free plan lets you try the monitoring before paying.
The honest catch
SocialHose stops at the mention. It does not score how close someone is to buying, and it does not draft the reply or DM, so the step that actually produces a customer is still on you. For a founder, that is the whole job. In our study of 5,756 real Reddit conversations, engaging people who were already describing the problem replied at 26.6%, versus 1 to 5% for cold email. The results came from the human-approved outreach step, which listening platforms leave to you.
SocialHose pricing
SocialHose has a free monitoring plan and paid plans from $29/mo, monthly billing with no long-term contract, scaling up to higher media-intelligence tiers for full coverage. That is priced for brand and agency teams tracking mentions. For comparison, OneUp Today is a flat $19/mo (Pro) or $49/mo (Max) with a 3-day free trial, sized for a founder who wants the conversations, not the reports.
