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Strategic Growth in Action: Investing in Talent to Power NetWatch's Next Chapter

17 new hires, 10 promotions, and big steps in talent strategy — NetWatch is growing with purpose, focus, and fresh momentum.

How AI is Changing OSINT: Investigating X Accounts with Grok

A look into how you can use X's in built AI, Grok, to assist your OSINT investigation and how this might impact investigations more widely.

NetWatch Recognised as a 2025 Hyer Culture 100 Award Winner

Prestigious Award Celebrates Exceptional Workplace Culture Across the UK

As Short as a TikTok: The Ban That Wasn't

Will TikTok's temporary ban disrupt its explosive growth? Joshua Bonser explores the ripple effects on users, alternatives, and the app's uncertain future.

Probability of locating social media accounts - Insights from NetWatch's 2023 and 2024 data

NetWatch has published our annual dataset revealing the probability of locating social media accounts based on a subject's age range across all major social platforms. The data highlights shifting user behaviour across platforms and age groups. Here's what we learned about the probability of finding social media accounts in 2024 versus 2023:

Levelling Up: A Vision for People and Performance

Our Head of HR discusses some of the initiatives we have introduced to help foster a great culture within NetWatch and what she might do if budget was not a barrier...

Stick or Twist: Improving your chances of landing a fundamental dishonesty ruling

Our training manager Richard Vaughan takes a look at some of the issues that could prevent your OSINT research being used in court, or even to negotiate a claim - and provides some best practise guidance.

Strava: Making a Mountain of a Morning Run

NetWatch Training Manager Richard Vaughan takes a look at why Strava can be such a valuable resource for open source intelligence work

Mental Health & NetWatch

The mental health of our team is important to us at NetWatch - ESG Officer Ashleigh explains some of the initiatives we have in place to support our staff

NetWatch OSINT critical in UK's largest fundamental dishonesty judgement to date

Learn more about the OSINT work undertaken by NetWatch which proved pivotal in securing the UK's largest fundamental dishonesty verdict to date - and a £6.6m saving for the insurer

Sustainability at NetWatch