The Road to Summit Reporting Challenge: Your Chance to Win a Trip to Meltwater Summit 2026!

What if your next report didn’t just inform a decision, but earned you a trip to Meltwater Summit 2026?

This challenge is designed to help you sharpen your trend analysis and reporting skills using Meltwater. You’ll practice identifying meaningful industry shifts, building executive-ready dashboards, and telling a clear data story.

Why Participate?

This is more than a competition. It’s an opportunity to:

• Strengthen your ability to spot real trends, not just spikes in volume
• Build dashboards that tell a clear, strategic story
• Learn from how others approach analysis
• Showcase your work to the broader Meltwater community

And yes, there’s a major reward.

The Grand Prize:

One winner will receive:

• Two complimentary Meltwater Summit tickets
• A $750 airfare voucher to help get you to Summit ’26
• A hotel stay during the conference
• Two VIP reserved seats for the duration of the conference 

Meltwater Summit (May 5-6) is our annual product conference in NYC, bringing together industry leaders, product experts, and the mCommunity.

In addition, the top three reports will be featured onsite in the mCommunity Lounge at Summit 2026, where attendees can explore your dashboards and the stories behind them.

Key Dates:

🗓 Competition Dates: March 9 – April 3
🏆Winners Announced: Week of April 6

You’ll need to be a Meltwater Community Member to compete! 

1. Create your Account Here  (Use your Meltwater product login) 
2. Subscribe to the Road to Summit Reporting Challenge Channel in mCommunity

How It Works

Step 1: Get Training (Optional but recommended)

If you’re already comfortable building searches and dashboards, you can move to Step 2.

Throughout the month, we’re hosting special Product Workshops to help you build stronger searches and more compelling reports. You can register for these sessions below: 

• Get Started with Media Monitoring in Explore - March 10th
• Advanced Trend Spotting & Media Monitoring - March 19th
• Get Started with Report Building in Analyze - March 23rd
• Advanced Report Building in Analyze - March 20th

Step 2: Identify a Trend

1. Choose an industry you care about.
2. In Explore, create an Industry Search using relevant keywords, competitors, or topics.
3. Adjust your date range and filters.
4. Review volume, sentiment, recurring themes, and emerging patterns.
5. Once you are happy with it, save the search.

A strong trend shows sustained or accelerating conversation that signals a shift in behavior, perception, or strategy.

Your search should help you:

• Surface what’s gaining traction
• Reveal shifts others may not have noticed
• Provide context around what’s changing
• Once finalized, save your search.

Tip: If you have access to Mira Studio, you can use your saved search to explore upcoming or emerging trends for additional insight.

Step 3: Build Your Trend Report

Now build your Industry Dashboard in Analyze.

1. Click Analyze
2. Click the Get Started (or some users might see Create a Unified Dashboard) purple button
3. Start with a template, we suggest Brand or Crisis for this.
4. Select your Saved Search
5. Choose the visualizations that best explain the trend, supporting data, and key takeaways. 
6. Download it to PDF

Your dashboard should tell a story, not just display charts. Your final report should clearly show:

• What the trend is
• What signals or data support it
• Why it matters to your selected industry
• Any additional insights that add depth

Need inspiration? Here are examples from our Meltwater Solutions Consultants.

If you are stuck here are some great examples to use for inspiration:

• Inspiration 1: Lipbalm Trends [Password: MELTWATER]
• Inspiration 2:  Shapewear [Password: Meltwater2026]
• Inspiration 3: Luxury Fashion Trends [Password: MELTWATER}
   

Step 4: Share It With mCommunity

To officially enter:

1. Create a post in the Road to Summit Channel
2. Add a clear title
3. Include a short explanation of your trend and what you learned
4. Upload your Industry Report PDF

After posting:

• Review other submissions
• Ask questions
• Share feedback
• Compare approaches

This challenge is as much about learning from each other as it is about winning.

How to Win: 

To qualify:

• Post your report in the Road to Summit Channel by April 3

The three reports with the most likes, comments, and views will advance to final judging.

The mCommunity team will evaluate finalists based on:

• Quality of trend discovery
• Clarity of insight
• Industry relevance
• Report design and structure
• Use of report-building techniques
• Strength of explanation and storytelling

One Grand Prize winner will be selected and announced the week of April 6.

📢 We’re excited to see the insights you uncover and the stories you tell.

The Fine Print:

• Eligibility: All participants must be registered members of Meltwater Community and active Meltwater customer at the time of entry and prize distribution.
• Competition Timeline: The competition runs from March 9th, 2026, at 12:00 AM UTC to April 3, 2026, at 11:59 PM UTC.
• Winner Announcement & Requirements: Winners will be announced and contacted the week of April 6th. To claim a prize, winners must be current Meltwater customers and members of mCommunity at the time of the award.
• Travel Documentation: Winners are responsible for obtaining all necessary visas, travel documentation, and approvals required to enter the United States for Meltwater Summit 2026. Meltwater is not responsible for securing travel documents on behalf of the winners.
• Community Guidelines: All participants must follow Community Guidelines throughout the competition.

Attend a workshop. Spot a trend. Build a report that stands out. Your seat at Summit 2026 could start with one dashboard.