Audiense vs. Talkwalker by Hootsuite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Audiense
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Audiense 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.
$39
per month (billed annually)
Talkwalker by Hootsuite
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Talkwalker is a consumer intelligence company that bring sin data from 30+ social networks, 150 million websites, and 100 data partners to give customers a unified view of their consumers. Talkwalker is a Hootsuite solution since the 2024 acquisition.N/A
Pricing
AudienseTalkwalker by Hootsuite
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
AudienseTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
AudienseTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Likelihood to Recommend
7.3
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8.3
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
5.8
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9.1
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Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Performance
8.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.5
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.5
(0 ratings)
-
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Ease of integration
-
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8.0
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User Testimonials
AudienseTalkwalker by Hootsuite
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Talkwalker is well suited for big companies and agencies that are looking for a long-term solution to keep track of the industry and/or their brands and key competitors. While setup requires a bit of dedication (especially in terms of custom filters and tags), once it's done, the tool will give the user a lot of flexibility to analyze the conversations and find the relevant results that answer the business questions. Companies just looking for a tool to track a short time period, or simple things like Twitter hashtags, won't take advantage of the full capabilities of this tool. Therefore, they could feel frustrated when comparing the outcomes/usage versus the costs.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Talkwalker helps you monitor online mentions so you can stay aware of what's being said about your company. Social listening is more important than ever.
  • Talkwalker also helps you delve deeper into the social insights to track patterns and give you data that can be helpful in the future as you plan your marketing efforts.
  • Talkwalker is one of the only products like it that incorporates AI and is, according to some, on the cutting edge in its field.
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Cons
  • To include more social networks that could help Twitter data.
  • An easy way tool from start to segment audiences that share similar characteristics to get a deep-dive.
  • Easy to use export reports or an API integration for a Data visualization tool.
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  • A recent update has made adding filters to the dashboard far more convoluted than necessary.
  • Many metrics are displayed as "3.4M", it would be great if you could hover over that number to see the full "3,371,000".
  • The tagging feature is buggy and often needs to be done twice to tag the mentions applied in the rule.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Love it! In most cases, Talkwalker is a no-brainer: I can confidently recommend it to clients.
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Usability
The dashboard is excellent and easy to understand. Their messaging is very clear. The reports are visual and powerful.
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Despite all the functionalities available on the platform, I never felt overwhelmed or confused
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Reliability and Availability
I have never had an issue.
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Performance
I have never had an issue.
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Talkwalker gets the job done at a basic level. It performs regular indexing of existing webpages and tracks the instances in which a particular brand or company is mentioned. Especially for being free, this is an awesome resource. However, it should be said that this product does not perform nearly at the level of the paid options.
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Support Rating
Any questions we had were promptly answered.
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They are very helpful, but can sometimes be a little too quick and not explain things in as great a depth as we would like. They have great staff and programs, and we don't really have any other major complaints. Support is very responsive and helpful when need be.
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Online Training
Pretty simple to start using. Have to do some self-study to learn more advanced features
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Implementation Rating
Just a plug and play online tool
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Alternatives Considered
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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I have yet to find another tool that would provide me with such a detailed information per query. It's such a find! Plus, I get separate emails per a search query and I'm able to archive those emails to the appropriate folders and always have a way of looking back. It's very useful for building monthly reports.
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Return on Investment
  • Brings massive efficiency to market research because we can find ideal audiences within minutes
  • Brings creativity to campaigns because we can study what our competitor is doing AND what our consumer is influenced by
  • Game-changer for focus group candidate discovery because we can create a very specific audience and contact ideal candidates
  • Audiense.com makes us look more attractive to our clientele because we have unique & current data on their consumer/competitor/ideal influencer
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  • Having learned how to better leverage the system has resulted in a greater diversity in projects and clients that we didn't have the capabilities to service before, which has in turn increased our visibility to the wider company.
  • It has reduced the amount of time it takes to do reporting from traditional desk research and utilizing other monitoring tools.
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