Emplifi vs. Hootsuite

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 7.2 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
Hootsuite
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Hootsuite is a social media management platform for building brand awareness, engaging with customers, and driving business results. Users can schedule posts across multiple social networks (including Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube ), manage organic and paid social content together, keep track of customer conversations, integrate with over 200+ applications, and gain actionable real-time insights from social media to make critical business decisions from…
$149
per month Starts at 1 user, 5 social accounts
Pricing
EmplifiHootsuite
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Standard
$99
per month (billed annually) Starts at 1 user, 10 social accounts
Advanced
$249
per month (billed annually) Starts at 1 user, unlimited social accounts
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmplifiHootsuite
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsPlans can be paid monthly or annually, with a discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Hootsuite offered everything we needed at a much more competitive price.
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[Hootsuite is much] cheaper than Socialbakers, if you are looking for a very reliable posting tool with some honest analytics, Hootsuite is your choice. But for hardcore analytics you'll need another tool. mLabs hacks your Instagram account and can block your account, I …
Features
EmplifiHootsuite
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Hootsuite
6.5
275 Ratings
17% below category average
Boolean keyword searches8.52 Ratings6.1185 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.13 Ratings5.6193 Ratings
Sentiment analysis8.02 Ratings6.2187 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.54 Ratings8.2255 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.4
5 Ratings
8% below category average
Hootsuite
7.7
383 Ratings
4% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.85 Ratings8.9382 Ratings
Audience targeting7.04 Ratings6.8260 Ratings
Content optimization6.85 Ratings7.3312 Ratings
Workflow management8.24 Ratings7.9322 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.3
4 Ratings
23% below category average
Hootsuite
7.7
308 Ratings
3% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization6.64 Ratings7.3220 Ratings
Customer interaction histories6.43 Ratings7.6237 Ratings
Bulk actions5.83 Ratings8.2265 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
3 Ratings
1% above category average
Hootsuite
7.5
295 Ratings
3% below category average
Lead generation8.01 Ratings6.6177 Ratings
Content marketing7.33 Ratings8.3263 Ratings
Paid media management8.02 Ratings7.6175 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.01 Ratings7.5225 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.2
5 Ratings
16% below category average
Hootsuite
9.1
376 Ratings
8% above category average
Twitter6.75 Ratings8.7344 Ratings
Facebook8.05 Ratings9.6360 Ratings
LinkedIn5.95 Ratings9.3314 Ratings
Google+8.01 Ratings8.960 Ratings
Instagram7.05 Ratings9.6316 Ratings
Pinterest7.03 Ratings9.2161 Ratings
YouTube8.02 Ratings8.4149 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
5 Ratings
4% below category average
Hootsuite
8.1
306 Ratings
3% above category average
Campaign success analytics8.34 Ratings8.4282 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.25 Ratings7.8282 Ratings
Competitor analysis7.44 Ratings8.1189 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
5 Ratings
9% below category average
Hootsuite
7.7
316 Ratings
4% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.25 Ratings8.5268 Ratings
Mobile access6.42 Ratings6.8294 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiHootsuite
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(74 ratings)
8.0
(444 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
8.7
(89 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(2 ratings)
8.8
(83 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(21 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(19 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(42 ratings)
7.0
(263 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
6.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(17 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.0
(39 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(3 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(3 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(18 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiHootsuite
Likelihood to Recommend
Emplifi Inc
- 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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Hootsuite
Hootsuite is a great starter tool for companies that want to use a scheduling service for their social media content. It allows access to nearly all of the commonly used social media platforms, so no matter where you share content, Hootsuite will allow you to do it with ease.
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Pros
Emplifi Inc
  • Helps us prioritize requests based on urgency and tone
  • Helps us divide work between several teams
  • Helps us keep an eye on how our posts are being recieved and are performing
  • Helps us stay in contact with customers, and helps us understand particular customers needs
  • Helps us separate the chaff from the wheat
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Hootsuite
  • Scheduling of content. The ease of use for Hootsuite's planner abilities is top of the industry. It is simple and effective in posting content to different channels and accounts.
  • Analytics are superior on Hootsuite. Their custom reports allow you to view very specific KPI's that you can adjust for each channel or account. The reports are also exportable to be used for others in the company.
  • Inbox management. The inbox manager is superior to any in the industry. Hootsuite allows you to tag certain phrases or keywords to better filter messages based on importance or topic.
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Cons
Emplifi Inc
  • 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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Hootsuite
  • Because of the way algorithms works, we would have loved to be able to automate making a post with no link and posting the first comment with a link (hello LinkedIn)
  • We would have loved an easy way to post from a main account and repost the post for other accounts we administrate, for instance a corporate post reposted by individuals for LinkedIn, or retweets from one main account by child accounts
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Likelihood to Renew
Emplifi Inc
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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Hootsuite
At this time we are satisfied that Hootsuite offers the most of what we are looking for at the most reasonable price point. As the social media landscape and monitoring/scheduling software changes, so do our needs. We re-evaluate our tools semi-annually or as new tools emerge onto the market. If we find at any point that we aren't gaining an advantage, then we are open to switching products.
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Usability
Emplifi Inc
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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Hootsuite
The overall usability is awesome, the scheduling, reporting, etc. The spellcheck and feature that used to be a part of it was awesome and we are sad to see that it was taken away. However, we do like the AI feature and emoji customization. The new ad and paid media element is something we are starting to explore, especially for Facebook and Linkedin
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Reliability and Availability
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Hootsuite
Any outages are communicated in advance and have not been a problem. We let our clients know based on communications from HootSuite. Since we operate 24/7 with multiple shifts, planned outages can interfere with our operations, but we can always work around it.
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Performance
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Hootsuite
Hootsuite makes passing on articles from the web very easy- when it works! I have had a number of gliches with Chrome where it does not open properly and the solution (after some toing and froing with support) was to uninstall and reinstall. The support staff are always very helpful (which is great!) but the gliches..... well, they suck when you are already busy!
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Support Rating
Emplifi Inc
We have a dedicated Customer Success manager, and that is very helpful. Anytime we have questions or need support, they are always there to answer. If thety do not know the solution, they always go around the bend to find one and provide it to us. They are always very kind.
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Hootsuite
I can manage all of my accounts on one site! It's absolutely amazing!
The dashboard is helpful to see how you are doing as well. Still
getting to understand the analytics and may need to reach out for help
on this
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In-Person Training
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Hootsuite
Very easy to teach and learn
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Online Training
Emplifi Inc
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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Hootsuite
The online training is decent; however, it takes a lot more time to search for answers to my questions. Having a training session with a live person was much more effective as they were able to quickly address the business needs I have.
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Implementation Rating
Emplifi Inc
The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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Hootsuite
• Combination of vendor and internal. The vendor bumped up our account to the Enterprise version (quite simple and easy) and then set up our organization and team structure. We then had to log in and set up team members and assign members to social media accounts. This was pretty easy to do as they have a great user interface. We simply had to drag and drop people into the correct team giving them access to specific social media accounts.
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Alternatives Considered
Emplifi Inc
We have used Sprinklr to source UGC content as well, but found the platform to be much more time intensive when searching for the desired images. Additionally, Emplifi's UGC tool has incremental tools the other platforms do not provide, including the ability to share images on digital screens within the property and put carousels on our websites.
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Hootsuite
Hootsuite is definitely the most cost effective of the bunch for the goals that my clients have. The AI caption generation is also perfect for cutting down on time. Caption creation actually takes up a lot of time in the scheduling process for content and this feature made Hootsuite stand out to me!
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Scalability
Emplifi Inc
No answers on this topic
Hootsuite
We are only using in marketing and have been able to scale.
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Return on Investment
Emplifi Inc
  • reporting - this has massively reduced the time spent on creating reports for social media activities
  • paid ads - has provided detailed analysis of how our ads are performing
  • community - reduced the time taken to respond to social messages, resulting in more leads
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Hootsuite
  • I have been able to evaluate which posts, in general, do well and figure out what types of posts to make (content)
  • It's been harder however to compare on social medial platform compared to another because it's hard to duplicate a post with a new owly (I think you used to be able to) but more so, you also can't assign it a custom owly link so I can see at a glance which owly link was associated with what platform.
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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.

Hootsuite Screenshots

Screenshot of Monitoring: Monitors social media profiles and tracks the topics that matter to the brand.Screenshot of Publishing: Create, publish and schedule engaging posts across social channels.Screenshot of Customer Engagement: A consolidated stream of messages across networks that can be triaged and assigned to respond to customers faster. Provides optional chatbot handover for automated responses.Screenshot of Scheduling: Social content can be planned as a team with a shared calendar that features collaborative post drafts and built-in approval workflows.Screenshot of Analytics & Reporting: Measures the effectiveness of a social media strategy to help turn strategy into execution with meaningful and actionable insights. Reports can be customized and shared according to unique business goals and objectives.