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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.N/A

    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
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteKhoros Social Media Management
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteKhoros Social Media Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteKhoros Social Media Management
    Considered Both Products
    CoSchedule
    No answer on this topic
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    89%
    Would buy again
    105 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    75 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    107 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    Features
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteKhoros Social Media Management
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Ideation5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content calendar10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    21% above category average
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Content distribution10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content promotion10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content automation10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content performance analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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 CoSchedule Marketing Suite and Khoros Social Media Management
    Feature
    CoSchedule Marketing Suite
    -
    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
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    User Ratings
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteKhoros Social Media Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (187 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (24 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.5
    (4 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (125 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CoSchedule Marketing SuiteKhoros Social Media Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule is great for businesses or agencies who need an overview of all their marketing efforts, and who want to establish collaboration between multiple departments. The calendar view is one of the best we've worked with and makes it easy to see exactly what's happening. There is some slight clunkiness when it comes to admin-related tasks, and a few things aren't easy to find, but there's great support.
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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
    CoSchedule
    • Best time to post is great at updating to when we get the most engagement by platform
    • Requeue tool to slate out additional posts for a given piece of content is a huge time saver
    • Aggregate analytics tool shows us a peek across our posts on a given platform that's actually easier to read than the platform itself
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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
    CoSchedule
    • The platform seems sluggish as of late, likely as a result of the robust amount of data we are entering and the number of filters we're creating.
    • Social media scheduling exists, but we do run into publishing errors more often then we'd like.
    • Task templates when updated are not retroactive, so when you create projects for an entire year and then change a template, you need to go back and change them manually.
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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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    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
    CoSchedule
    The interface is very intuitive, from setting up social profiles, to posting, to tags, to optimizing for best day/time to post. It's super easy to scan the aggregate analytics. The calendar is very easy to grok at a glance, and the more advanced functionality is intuitive to set up.
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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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    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
    CoSchedule
    I didn't have to use their official support, but I can say that they put out a lot of content online to help users. Their YouTube page has quite an array of tutorial videos explaining how things work and how to get the most out of their tools. If you're struggling, before picking up a phone or blasting off an email, try searching for your problem on YouTube or their forums.
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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
    CoSchedule
    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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    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
    CoSchedule
    No answers on this topic
    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
    CoSchedule
    CoSchedule provides collaborative planning of projects. The calendar view is very well designed. Meetings and tasks can be scheduled and tracked easily. Whatever is being done, no matter how big the task/project is, it gives a bird-eye view of everything. Additionally, it also integrated very well with WordPress. Their customer service team is also very helpful.
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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
    CoSchedule
    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
    CoSchedule
    • It has saved me about 1 hour per day to keep things organized from Asana to WordPress.
    • By not having a functioning Google Doc import feature, it costs me about 30 minutes for each blog post to copy paste all the content, images, etc.
    • By bundling too many features into their plans, many of which we don't use (e.g. social media scheduling), we lose a little ROI because we are not using the full feature set. We use and prefer Buffer for social media, so when CoSchedule raised their price $40+ per month on features we would not be using, that hurt.
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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

    CoSchedule Marketing Suite Screenshots

    Screenshot of Calendar Organizer: Visualizes everything in real time, and shows every project on a unified calendar of record. Helps to keep stakeholders in the know and pivot quickly when priorities change.Screenshot of Content Organizer: Eliminates content bottlenecks from idea to promotion. Optimizes the editorial process, and centralizes publishing and promotion by connecting marketing tools.Screenshot of Work Organizer: Maximizes resources by implementing consistent, defined workflows to speed up production and identify how urgent changes impact proactively planned work.Screenshot of Asset Organizer: Catalogs and maintains control of brand assets with customized taxonomies to find, update, and share files. Folders and files can be shared with stakeholders to make sure work is up-to-date.Screenshot of Idea Board: Used to write down ideas, take in requests, and prioritize the projects that are up-next, before giving them a publish date and putting them on the calendar organizer.Screenshot of An AI-powered Marketing Intelligence Assistant that can be used to write first-draft copy, complete work faster, and generate new ideas.

    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.