Emplifi vs. Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 7.6 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
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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Wildfire was a social media advertising management software application that was acquired but since discontinued by Google.N/A
Pricing
EmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
EmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Features
EmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
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Ratings
Boolean keyword searches8.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.4
Ratings
8% below category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
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Ratings
Content planning and scheduling7.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization6.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.3
Ratings
23% below category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
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Automated routing and prioritization6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions5.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
-
Ratings
Lead generation8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.2
Ratings
16% below category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
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Ratings
Twitter6.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Facebook8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
LinkedIn5.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Google+8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Pinterest7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
YouTube8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
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Campaign success analytics8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
Ratings
9% below category average
Wildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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2.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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7.9
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Usability
7.3
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9.0
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Availability
-
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10.0
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Performance
-
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10.0
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Support Rating
9.0
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9.5
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Online Training
6.0
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8.5
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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8.5
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User Testimonials
EmplifiWildfire Interactive (Discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
- 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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The transition to Google has been painful - key contacts are no longer available.
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Pros
  • 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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  • Content scheduling on FB, TW, and PIN
  • Social media management
  • Basic analytics of post engagmemt
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Cons
  • 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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  • The entire product is quite dated - in our two years with the product, only the visuals have been updated. While other products have added things like multi-platform entries, Wildfire is essentially the same as it has been since our first experience with it.
  • In its self-service mode, the product lacks some essential features like mandatory likes and white label.
  • Embedding a whitelabel contest is a major undertaking, and requires quite a bit of work within the Facebook developer panel.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Our initial contract with Wildfire Whitelabel was for $30,000/year, as we progressed we found several alternatives for significantly less. We used this to our advantage to lower the second year to $17,000 with the limitation in the level of support (they call this their "core" subscription). Support has been quite bad.

During our contract, we also asked for quotes on some custom work, but never managed to get an answer (or actual quote). Now two years into our contract, the limitations and lack of development are enough for us to find a different solution. Newcomers to the market like Rafflecopter, WooBox and PunchTab are delivering much better results for a fraction of the price
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Usability
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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Very easy to use, almost anyone can learn how to build a comprehensive promotion.
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Reliability and Availability
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I have never been kicked out of Wildfire service. Always up and running.
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Performance
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Easy to perform tasks and quick to upload changes to your promotions.
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Support Rating
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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Phone and email support were always available to us when we needed it.
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Online Training
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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Gave me a thorough rundown on everything the software does. Sometimes it is difficult to run through it all over the phone/internet, but I was able to figure it out myself.
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Implementation Rating
The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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Simple to use and very effective in increasing user engagement on both social channels and website. Noticeably helped raise TOS.
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Alternatives Considered
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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Wildfire was a merely an adequate social media tool when it existed as a standalone, but it just couldn't compete against other players like Sprout, Falcon, and Sprinklr.
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Return on Investment
  • 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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  • Our TOS and engagement with our fans increased when implementing this.
  • Social metrics Wildfire provided for the different brands allowed sales opportunity to increase social worth and ultimately increase cost on advertising initiatives.
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ScreenShots

Emplifi Screenshots

Screenshot of Emplifi Fuel Command CenterScreenshot of Emplifi Fuel ObjectivesScreenshot of Emplifi Unified AnalyticsScreenshot of social listening with AI-Powered Spike Alerts.Screenshot of the integrated social care interface.