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Media
Intelligence.

Enterprise-grade brand monitoring, social listening, competitive benchmarking, and executive intelligence, built from scratch, around your market, and owned entirely by you. Not a dashboard you rent. A capability you keep.

brand_intelligence · live Monitoring

Total reach

0

▲ 5.23% vs prev

Sentiment

0%

▲ positive trend

Mentions, last 14 days

Share of voice

Your brand  ,  31.2%
Competitor A  ,  24.8%
Competitor B  ,  18.1%
Positive Neutral Negative Key signal , hover to scan the conversation

The problem

Most brands are
flying blind.

Most UAE organisations make major brand, campaign, and reputation decisions on instinct, because their intelligence is scattered, outsourced, or simply doesn't exist. The data is out there. They just can't see it. We fix that.

Outsourced monitoring. Paying agencies monthly for reports you don't own and can't interrogate.

Scattered reporting. Social, PR, and campaign data living in five disconnected tools.

No competitive view. No idea what share of the conversation you actually own.

Reputation risk, unseen. Crises building in plain sight with no early-warning system.

Data dumps, not decisions. Hundreds of metrics, zero leadership-ready insight.

What's included

A complete intelligence
capability, in house.

Social Listening

Real-time monitoring across every social platform, news, blogs, forums, and review sites, in Arabic and English.

Brand Monitoring

Continuous tracking of brand mentions, sentiment, and reputation health across the entire digital landscape.

Competitive Benchmarking

Share-of-voice, sentiment, and engagement measured against your competitors, so you know exactly where you stand.

Campaign Analytics

Live performance tracking that connects spend to reach, engagement, and sentiment, across every channel and campaign.

Executive Reporting

Leadership-ready intelligence, the insight, the implication, the recommendation. Never a raw data dump.

Crisis & Risk Detection

Early-warning alerts that surface reputation threats while they're still manageable, not after they've gone viral.

Inside the intelligence

Dashboards that turn
noise into decisions.

Not raw data, answers. Every Layer 8 dashboard is built around the decision it informs, for the stakeholder who has to make it. Here's a sample of what your team would actually work with.

Mention volume · 30 days▲ 4.2% WoW
DAY 1DAY 8DAY 15DAY 22DAY 30

Total mentions

1.03M

▲ 4.2% this week

Estimated reach

573M

▲ 5.2% MoM

Languages · AR / EN

58% / 42%

11 active sources

Mentions by source
X / Twitter
38%
Instagram
27%
News & PR
14%
Blogs / Forums
11%
Reviews
6%
Live mention feedstreaming

Loving the new experience, best day out we’ve had all year.

X / TWITTER · POSITIVE · REACH 24K

2m

Staff were incredibly helpful and the whole place felt premium.

GOOGLE REVIEW · POSITIVE · ★ 5.0

8m

Announces new regional partnership ahead of summer season.

NEWS · NEUTRAL · REACH 180K

21m

Disappointed with the wait time at the entrance today.

INSTAGRAM · NEGATIVE · REACH 3.1K

34m
Sentiment trend · 90 days▲ positive rising
WK 1WK 4WK 7WK 10WK 13
Positive Neutral Negative

Net sentiment score

+63

▲ 8 pts vs last month

Positive mentions

37,748

▲ 3.5%

Negative mentions

13,155

▼ down, improving

Sentiment split
68%positive
Positive 68% Neutral 27% Negative 5%
Top phrases driving sentiment
great experience
8.9K
friendly staff
6.1K
value for money
4.3K
long wait
2.4K
Share of voice vs competitorsrank #1
Your brand
31.2%
Competitor A
24.8%
Competitor B
18.1%
Competitor C
14.3%
Others
11.6%

Market rank

#1

▲ up from #2 in Q1

Sentiment lead

+12 pts

vs nearest rival

Engagement rate

8.9%

category avg 5.1%

Share of voice trend · 6 months
JANFEBMARAPRMAYJUN
Your brand Competitor A Competitor B
Competitive ranking
BrandSOVSentiment
Your brand31.2%+63
Competitor A24.8%+51
Competitor B18.1%+38
Competitor C14.3%+12
Conversion funnel4.4% CTR
Impressions9.42M
Clicks412K
Qualified leads18.2K
Conversions3,148
Campaign reach · live flight▲ on pace
D1D4D7D10D14

Total reach

9.4M

▲ 12% vs target

Click-through rate

4.4%

▲ 1.1 pts

Cost per lead

AED 12.40

▼ 18% cheaper

Return on ad spend

6.2×

▲ above 4× goal

Total reach

573M

▲ 5.2% MoM

Engagement rate

8.9%

▲ 1.2 pts

Net sentiment

+63

▲ 8 pts

Share of voice

31.2%

▲ rank #1

Executive summary · key takeaways

Brand sentiment up 8 points following the summer launch campaign, strongest quarter on record.

Overtook Competitor A on share of voice in Q2, taking the #1 position in the category.

Negative mentions down 22% after the guest-experience and wait-time improvements rolled out.

Campaign ROAS exceeded target by 55%, recommend reallocating Q3 budget toward top-performing channels.

Overall brand health
84/ 100
Strong & improving
Negative mention spike · live▲ 312% surge
00:0006:0012:0018:00NOW
Current risk level
62risk index
Elevated, monitoring
Active alerts3 open
High

Negative mention surge, 312% above baseline, driven by a single viral post on X about wait times.

4 min ago
Medium

Sentiment dip detected on a regional news article, spreading to 3 secondary outlets.

37 min ago
Low

Unusual review volume on Google for one location, within tolerance, flagged for watch.

1 hr ago

Sample dashboards, illustrative of Layer 8 reporting. Live deployments are configured to your brand, competitors, and KPIs.

How we deliver it

From zero to a working
intelligence system.

01

Audit

We map your full intelligence need across brand, PR, social, and campaigns, and identify every gap.

02

Configure

We build and customise the platform end-to-end, integrating every account, channel, and data source into one system.

03

Dashboard

Tailored dashboards for every stakeholder, from C-suite to brand teams, each seeing exactly what they need.

04

Report

Ongoing intelligence reports and research studies that turn the data into decisions leadership can act on.

Platforms & tools

Enterprise platforms.
Expert hands.

We are platform-agnostic and certified across the enterprise intelligence stack. We select and configure the right tool for your portfolio, then operate it at a level most teams never reach.

Sprinklr Brandwatch Emplifi Carma Meltwater Talkwalker Google Analytics 4 Looker Studio Custom AI pipelines

Proven at scale

Built for the UAE's
most-watched brands.

This isn't theory. Our founder has built media intelligence systems from scratch inside some of the most demanding organisations in the country.

Miral Group · Yas Island

573M

Total reach tracked through a Sprinklr intelligence system built from the ground up, now the single source of truth across the group's full portfolio of destinations.

Dubai Investments PJSC

45+

Social accounts unified into one analytics platform across 40+ subsidiaries, replacing intuition-led decisions with evidence, used by multiple CEOs.

Emirates Post Group

1M+

Mentions analysed through a unified intelligence and social-care system, surfacing and resolving major brand issues within months of go-live.

What you get

Tangible deliverables.

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Configured intelligence platform integrated across all your channels

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Custom dashboards tailored per stakeholder group

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Monthly executive intelligence report, insight, not data

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Competitive benchmarking against named rivals

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Share-of-voice & sentiment tracking over time

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Crisis & reputation alert system with escalation rules

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Deep-dive research studies on demand

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Team training & handover, so the capability stays yours

See what your market
is really saying.

Start with a free intelligence audit, we'll show you exactly where your brand stands today, and what you're not seeing.

Request your audit  →

or reach directly

info@layer8.ae

Blogs

From the Layer 8 blog.

Practical thinking on media intelligence and the wider UAE market, written by our founder, Khaled Bakkora.

Media Intelligence · 6 min read

What Is Media Intelligence? A Complete Guide for UAE Brands

Media intelligence turns the noise of social, news, and reviews into decisions leadership can act on.

Read article →
Media Intelligence · 5 min read

Social Listening vs Social Monitoring: What Is the Difference?

They sound the same but solve different problems. Here is how they differ, and why you need both.

Read article →
Media Intelligence · 6 min read

How to Build a Media Intelligence System In-House

A practical framework for building an internally owned intelligence capability instead of relying on agencies.

Read article →

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