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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Audiense

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AAudiense is a social marketing platform focused on Twitter analytics. The company and product was formerly called SocialBro, and rebranded in 2015. Capabilities include social listening, social marketing, and Twitter advertising.

    $99

    per month

    Khoros Social Media Management

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium) is a social media management platform. Key features include: Plan and Organize Social Campaigns, Manage Real-Time Engagement, and Learn and Prove Social ImpactN/A
    Pricing
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Editions & Modules
    Twitter Marketing (formerly Socialbro)
    $39
    per month (billed annually)
    Audience Insights
    $696
    per month (billed annually)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Considered Both Products
    Audiense
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    19 Answers
    89%
    Would buy again
    105 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    75 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    19 Answers
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    107 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    19 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    Features
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.9
    120 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings9.093 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings6.9102 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings8.991 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.0113 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.6
    151 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings9.5149 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.0115 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.0133 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.8
    116 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings8.594 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.0106 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings9.997 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.6
    106 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings8.050 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings7.589 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings8.093 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.5
    150 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings8.0141 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings8.0146 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings6.0107 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings9.018 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings8.5135 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings6.048 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings7.333 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.9
    134 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.5124 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings9.4123 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.979 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Audiense and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    Audiense
    -
    Ratings
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.0
    139 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings9.0135 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings7.0114 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Small Businesses
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    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (187 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.8
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.7
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.5
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (24 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (125 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AudienseKhoros Social Media Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Audiense
    When you start a strategy and want to discover how the audiense is composed, this is the first step to start exploring and then create your buyer personas with more details from other auxiliary tools (social listening, market research). Audiense is the best way to start exploring. It works better when you are dealing with big social media accounts when you want to explore audiences from a specific country or very specific interests. It’s good to import information from listening tools like Brandwatch to get better results about your audience.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    While I cannot say any scenarios where Khoros wouldn't be useful (when it comes to social media moderation), I can say it is very well suited for clients who have time constraints on their work. With the speed Khoros can pull in new content, we see issues for the client almost immediately.
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    Pros
    Audiense
    • Audiense is the best tool I have found for tie your tweets to changes in your followers. In essence, I can see when tweets are gaining or losing followers for my account.
    • Audiense also has great analytical tools like best time to tweet reports
    • Audiense also provide a very complete look at each person you follow or is following you. It helps to understand who the people are.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Reporting is great - easy to create bespoke dashboards for multiple ways to view the data and trends in platform
    • Onboarding and training - a good repository of knowledge articles for users to access on most aspects of the platform for self-learning
    • The user-friendly and intuitive interface allows any user to quickly assimilate how to use the platform.
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    Cons
    Audiense
    • For the USA, if Audiense.com is able to pull in the FULL spectrum of Acxiom data, then we have a truly splendid solution.
    • For the world, if Audiense.com is able to enrich an audience with PIPL, Apollo.io, and Full Contact API data, then we have the next iteration of this already amazing solution
    • As Audiense.com refines its SEMRush partnership, we will see advanced SEO unlink anything seen in past decades.
    • If Audiense.com were to integrate the full capabilities of Relationship Science ( relsci.com ), then we would, as salespeople, have the next iteration of the solution as a sales power tool.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Look and feel of the interface could use a refresh as it's not very exciting to use
    • Improve analytics features and accuracy
    • Facilitate bulk actions
    • Better alerts/visibility of collaborative actions and assigned tasks
    • Clearer communication around new feature releases and announcements
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Audiense
    I have been using it for a few years now and I still think it's a pretty competitive tool, although a lot of new interesting tools are coming on the market and I am always on the lookout for new solutions. If it keeps innovating, however, Audiense could stay relevant for some time to come
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    There is no product like Khoros. Our company lives and dies by the analytics, and to date, we have not seen a more comprehensive analytics structure for any social media management tool. Khoros support is also fantastic, responding and resolving any and all questions, ideas, or complaints, usually in 24 hours.
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    Usability
    Audiense
    The dashboard is excellent and easy to understand. Their messaging is very clear. The reports are visual and powerful.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros Marketing is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The calendar visibility is the view I use most so I can see all posts going out on all of our channels. It allows us to time posts in a proper cadence so we don't overlap with other pressing content.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Audiense
    I have never had an issue.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • We still experience a bit of downtime and slowness here but things have drastically improved in the last year with their feature updates and reconfigured hosting.
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    Performance
    Audiense
    I have never had an issue.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros has greatly improved the performance of its SaaS products in the last 5 years. Their applications, including Conversations, Intelligence, and Experiences, all load quickly with real-time data. This performance is critical to provide meaningful, social customer support, and marketing. The performance maintains integrity even when you deploy powerful integrations like Salesforce Customer Relationship Manager.
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    Support Rating
    Audiense
    Any questions we had were promptly answered.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Overall, support does a great job and is timely in their responses and efforts. We have had to contact support many times due to the Capture app. Some tickets have remained open for months, while others get resolved quickly. I understand this is not always up to support and they often have to wait for their engineering team to fix issues that we identified, but it's difficult to deal with issues that are affecting our workflow, especially for extended amounts of time.
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    In-Person Training
    Audiense
    No answers on this topic
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • As a very early customer, we did not undergo formal training but worked closely with the team to get the system set up to do what we wanted. However, online training resources are now available with many blog posts / video lessons and tutorials.
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    Online Training
    Audiense
    Pretty simple to start using. Have to do some self-study to learn more advanced features
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    it is important to note that my perspective is not necessarily common - I'm a geek/nerd/poweruser in general, so I found the online resources to be more than adequate (and often very aesthetically pleasing, too). That said, a less "geeky" person might struggle a bit.
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    Implementation Rating
    Audiense
    Just a plug and play online tool
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The implementation team from Khoros were great - they worked hard to understand our somewhat complex organization, and were with us all the way through face to face meetings, user training, and technical training. We had a clearly defined account manager and implementation manager, who worked really effectively together and with us.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Audiense
    I have used a few audience insight tools but I find Audiense has a large mix of data within one platform. For instance, IBM Watson, Demos, Social Listening, Hashtags. It is great to have a lot of insights about an audience in one place to have a holistic understanding.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    On some accounts that I am on, I use Asana in place of Khoros marketing but I much prefer Khoros Marketing. I prefer Khoros Marketing over Asana because I can post directly (and schedule posts) on Khoros but not on Asana. Also, I can moderate directly on Khoros but not Asana
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    Scalability
    Audiense
    No answers on this topic
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros seems to struggle a little past a certain level of scale. More than 30 separate per day makes it difficult to view all content in the weekly calendar view, which is frustrating and could cause issues. However, the ability to schedule one post across multiple channels is hugely valuable and cuts down on a lot of duplicative work.
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    Return on Investment
    Audiense
    • Definitely increased the value of my social intelligence data. Now I'm able to really understand who my audience is and this helps my clients think about them as real people instead of an anonymous group.
    • Time saved, being able to click a button and then have my audience generated within a couple of hours without me having to do anything else is invaluable.
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    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Negatively impacted relationship with Khoros as they're notoriously difficult to engage with or able to produce viable results from our feedback.
    • Negatively impacted KPI reporting, as metrics were inaccurate for six months.
    • Negatively impacted resource management, as there've been so many restrictions with this platform that simple, day-to-day tasks take so much longer.
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    ScreenShots

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    Khoros Social Media Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of the channel performance dashboard, for monitoring different metrics and comparing the performance of posts by content type and labels to optimize for the audience.Screenshot of the cross-channel dashboard. It provides a holistic view of paid and organic campaigns, allowing teams to compare performance and optimize for engagement and reach with campaigns.Screenshot of the cross-channel dashboard. Users can compare the performance of posts across channels, ensuring that time and resources are allocated effectively to reach the target audience.Screenshot of the calendar view. This presents all scheduled posts by assignee, channel, and tags so that nothing is missed and content is delivered on time.Screenshot of approval paths in Khoros. Get sign-off and feedback across teams for paid and organic posts to reduce brand risk.