Explore & Explore+: 2026 Year-End Release Updates & Resources
Here you’ll find the 2026 Year-End Release updates and resources for Explore and Explore+. Learn how to set up monitoring, find the signals that matter, understand what’s changing, and turn intelligence into action.
Product Updates
- Meet the New Mira Companion — Mira Companion offers contextual help across Meltwater—build searches, research articles and journalists, understand your data, and turn insights into reports.
- Bulk Upload Users via CSV or Excel — Account Admins can provision users in bulk with a CSV template.
- Explore/+: AI Search Assistant Updates — Mira Companion’s AI Search Assistant now uses Explore’s unified search API, with an AI Insights widget and date range selector.
- Explore/+: Updated Topic Clusters Widget — AI-generated Topic Clusters now surface more relevant themes for the search you’re analyzing.
- Compare Updates — Compare makes side-by-side analysis more meaningful with flexible segmentation, date controls, trend scaling, and keyword rankings.
- Instagram Hashtag Management — Manage hashtags across connected Instagram accounts in one place and add them in bulk.
- Telegram Data Now Available — Use curated Telegram data in Explore to identify emerging threats, coordinated campaigns, and harmful activity earlier.
- Explore/+: Early Access Beta for Adaptive Analytics — Explore a cleaner, more customizable way to view key metrics with saveable tabs, new metrics, and recommendations.
Product Tours
Playbooks
- Social Connections — Set up social listening by connecting your networks, configuring what to collect, and confirming your content is coming through.
- Brand Monitoring — Get brand monitoring up and running quickly with the AI Search Assistant.
- Crisis and Risk Management — Prepare for crises by identifying vulnerabilities, setting up the right monitoring, and planning your response before risk escalates.
- Campaign Monitoring — Learn how to monitor campaigns before, during, and after launch, from setup through reporting.
- Competitive Benchmarking — Track your market position and competitors to stay informed and make smarter decisions.
- Industry and Market Research — Track industry trends, uncover key narratives, and sharpen your messaging.
- Explore+ Admin & Asset Builder — Use three playbooks to set up Explore+ with the right environment, searches, and reporting workflows from the start.