10 Social Media Listening Tools
Hootsuite has a great list of social media listening tools, many of them free.

Need a way to monitor mentions of your brand, author, titles? For the most part the paid tools are expensive and only allow for 5 keyword queries per month on the basic plan. By expensive I mean starting at $39 per month. That said, there are some free tools that are useful for one-off searches or to help assess what social media listening features you need in a paid tool.

Hootsuite has a great guide and list of tips here: https://blog.hootsuite.com/social-listening-business/

Free Tools 

1. BuzzSumo https://app.buzzsumo.com/alerts/about or see what’s trending https://app.buzzsumo.com/research/trending
2. Instagram search by hashtags
3. Sentiment Viz https://www.csc2.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/tweet_viz/tweet_app/
4. Social Mention http://socialmention.com
5. Social Searcher https://www.social-searcher.com/
6. Twitter Advanced Search https://twitter.com/search-advanced

Paid Tools

1. Keyhole https://keyhole.co
2. Mention Mapp https://mentionmapp.com
3. Mentionlytics https://mentionlytics.com
4. Sprout Social https://sproutsocial.com/features/social-media-listening