The Road to Summit Reporting Challenge Starts Today! Say Hello 👋

The Road to Summit Reporting Challenge has officially begun! 

Starting today, you can use Meltwater to uncover a trend in your industry, turn it into a report, and compete for a VIP Summit ’26 experience, including tickets, a travel voucher, and a hotel stay in New York City. If you’ve been thinking about entering, consider this your green light to hit the road running! Be sure to subscribe to the Road to Summit Challenge page so you never miss an update!

In the meantime, we want to know more about you, so let’s kick off some introductions. In the comments below, let us know:

1. What’s your name?
2. Where in the world are you located?
3. Have you attended Meltwater Summit before?
4. Do you have a favorite book or TV show you’d reccomend? 

Just in case you need a reminder, here’s how to compete: 

Step 1: Get training (optional, but recommended)
Join a Product Workshop to sharpen your search building and  reporting skills

•  Get Started with Media Monitoring - Mar 10
• Advanced Trend Spotting & Media Monitoring — Mar 19
• Get Started with Report Building — Mar 23
• Advanced Report Building — Mar 20

Step 2: Spot a trend in Meltwater.

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.

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: Create your report 

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

Step 4: Post your report to 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

Your next report could be your ticket to New York City 🗽 🌆 🏙 🚕

👉🏼 View the full competition overview and get started today!