Adobe Social vs. Emplifi

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Adobe Social
Score 8.0 out of 10
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Adobe Social, incorporates technology from Context Optional and Efficient Frontier. Adobe acquired Facebook advertising-management platform Efficient Frontier in November. Six months earlier, Efficient Frontier had acquired Facebook page-management platform Context Optional. Adobe Social is an enterprise social platform competing with Buddy Media and Involver, enabling things like automated content marketing and social sweepstakes and competitions. Customers tend to be medium to large…N/A
Emplifi
Score 7.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Emplifi offers a platform that enables brands to manage social marketing, commerce, and care. At the core of this platform is Emplifi Fuel — the outcome and enablement layer that connects all modules across marketing, commerce, and care. Fuel empowers brands to optimize the customer journey, unifying data, automation, and AI-driven insights to ensure every interaction drives meaningful business outcomes. The platform's core capabilities include:…N/A
Pricing
Adobe SocialEmplifi
Editions & Modules
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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Adobe SocialEmplifi
Features
Adobe SocialEmplifi
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.4
Ratings
4% below category average
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Boolean keyword searches7.50 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.50 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Sentiment analysis7.50 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.4
Ratings
8% below category average
Emplifi
7.4
Ratings
8% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Audience targeting7.50 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Content optimization7.50 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Workflow management7.50 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.7
Ratings
3% below category average
Emplifi
6.3
Ratings
23% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization7.50 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Customer interaction histories8.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Bulk actions7.50 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
8.0
Ratings
3% above category average
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Lead generation8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Content marketing8.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Paid media management8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Emplifi
7.2
Ratings
16% below category average
Twitter8.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Facebook8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
LinkedIn7.50 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Google+7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Instagram8.50 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Pinterest8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
YouTube8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.8
Ratings
1% below category average
Emplifi
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Campaign success analytics8.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.50 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Competitor analysis8.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Adobe Social
7.3
Ratings
9% below category average
Emplifi
7.3
Ratings
9% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges7.50 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Mobile access7.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
User Ratings
Adobe SocialEmplifi
Likelihood to Recommend
7.5
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8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
5.4
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9.1
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Usability
8.5
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7.3
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Availability
7.0
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Performance
5.0
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Support Rating
8.0
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9.0
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Online Training
6.0
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6.0
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Implementation Rating
5.0
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9.1
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User Testimonials
Adobe SocialEmplifi
Likelihood to Recommend
For intricate, complex organizations who dynamically fuse social and digital - Adobe Social is great. A methodical approach to social and its integration to other aspects of the company is needed. Furthermore, there must be buy in for many departments and the aptitude in those departments to learn how to use the tool - and then actually do it. There are many hurdles for most companies. It is NOT a tool for fast-paced social brands who want to react and measure in real time.
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- Very well suited to grabbing top-level and more in-depth social performance data, across campaigns and BAU activity. - Not as well suited for moments where you need benchmarking or context of your performance compared with a previous time frame. This can be a bit clunky to go back and forth with as it requires multiple dashboards or consistent manual time-frame changes.
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Pros
  • Provide extensive Social Media listening so we can evaluate new ways we can enhance our card member experience and constantly evaluate the needs of our card members.
  • Provides detailed and in depth analytics so we can make smarter Social Media decisions.
  • Allows us to provide content across multiple Social Media platforms.
  • Provides sentiment of engagement
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  • Publishing - takes a bit of time, but publishing all content together makes planning and execution much more efective
  • Community - really simple one board collecting of all our social messages makes replying simple
  • dashboards - widgets and customisation allow for multiple dashboards tracking various campaigns and goals
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Cons
  • Editing a scheduled post is problematic in terms of content or just date/time
  • Reliability: I have experienced various glitches. Yesterday it would not let me attach a link to a post.
  • Ability to tag a Facebook page and other missing functionality.
  • Instagram.
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  • Would love more robust search parameters for labels. ex. search for tickets labeled 'Availability' AND 'United States' but excluding any that are only one of those labels
  • Ability to break conversations into multiple tickets; so labels can be more accurate if the same person reaches out again after 3 months with a totally different question
  • The social account quick view doesn't always load the follower count for people reaching out to us. it makes it slower to manager messages from high level creators
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Likelihood to Renew
I wasn't in charge of making the actual management decision, but I would absolutely renew Adobe Social. As I mentioned, it provides strong and in-depth analytics and listening tools. The reports that it generates are very thorough and easy to read. I loved the platform and would recommend it to anyone
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the balance between quality and price si perfectperfect for agency that have many client to manage, because it helps us to save time (we don't have to plan content from every single account, only one click to look at different community and moderate...)it also help the team works: senior can review content direcly from emplifi; labeling DM/comments as done help us to track where a collegue stop and we have to startIt makes the content approval from clients very easy
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Usability
The reason why I give this rating is that the overall platform is simple to use. You don't need to be tech-savvy or have a vast understanding of how to work a marketing tool. It is very simple to use compared to different platforms and you learn a lot of different ways to build your business.
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Since the main use of the Live Advisor is on the website that doesn't have e-commerce capabilities, it has been challenging to attach an specific metric to Emplifi's solutions and their usability in our websites. The Live Advisor is helping us to deliver our unique sale proposition in digital channels, which is great, but it is difficult to assign a higher mark in usability due to the limitation just explained.
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Support Rating
The reason why I give this a 9 out of 10 in terms of support is because of the mobile app functionality. I have had many issues in terms of logging in and also loading pages. The app overall is easy to use but at what cost? Other than that it is great and I still enjoy Adobe Social.
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Every time I've reached out to our account manager or even support in general, they've been there. I love the fact that I can always ask for help. Also, the chat function within the tool is helpful as well. It is something I always look for in a solution because when you're in the middle of working, and there is an issue, you can quickly reach out and get an answer.
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Online Training
Training was long and a little confusing. While a number of features carried over, they were still covered in this elongated training. It would have been nice to have training tailored to experience level with the product.
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The online training was fine but, in the end, the best way to learn any product is by actually using it.
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Implementation Rating
The implementation was done during our POC. We had a very mixed experience here, and have had some issues arise since based on the way the tool was implemented. An Adobe employee went ahead and made a change to our account that was unauthorized (helpful for our implementation) which caused issues in on boarding another team who needed the same change, but could not get it done without costly Adobe certification
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The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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Alternatives Considered
I don't really use many types of Adobe products however I used photoshop in the past and in terms of similarities they don't have much since it is for different purposes. The one thing they are great at is functionality. Many features and ways to finish the job effectively but overall great!
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Its so much better and more stable and easier to work with their team If you're on Agora you should switch, you wont regret it and you'll probably get a better price. I used to deal with Agora breaking in some odd way every week, and Emplifi Service Cloud hasn't broken in any way in the almost a year we've used it.
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Return on Investment
  • Although we chose Adobe Social believing it could provide ROI metrics we could not get elsewhere, that turned out not to be the case. Site Catalyst can give us everything we need without Adobe Social
  • Adobe Social did not create greater efficiencies and speed up our activity within social media. In fact, it has done the oppposite. It is very cumbersome with little clear benefit.
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  • Volaris was able to improve their positive sentiment by 7% in their user-generated content (UGC).
  • The optimization of content management workflows led to them becoming the second-most-popular airline brand in Mexico and the USA in 2022 according to Emplifi.
  • By tracking our content performance with Emplifi, we were able to improve our creatives and increase the total shares by 15% vs. previous the year.
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