Emplifi vs. KUKU.io

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Emplifi
Score 7.7 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
KUKU.io
Score 1.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
KUKU.io social media tools allow users to schedule posts on 10 social networks, including Instagram, Facebook, Linkedin, Telegram, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, OK.ru, Vk.com, and Tumblr, without any risks of a ban. KUKU.io is an official partner of these social networks. In KUKU.io social media analytics users can analyze content engagement compare posts with special filters (by clicks, likes, comments, shares), count reach and monitor team performance. Users can add colleagues in KUKU.io…
$400
per 200+ user accounts
Pricing
EmplifiKUKU.io
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
White label solutions
$400.00
per 200+ user accounts
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmplifiKUKU.io
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$7 per 5 accounts and 500 posts
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
EmplifiKUKU.io
Features
EmplifiKUKU.io
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
4 Ratings
1% above category average
KUKU.io
-
Ratings
Boolean keyword searches8.52 Ratings00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.13 Ratings00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.54 Ratings00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.4
5 Ratings
8% below category average
KUKU.io
4.2
2 Ratings
63% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.85 Ratings1.12 Ratings
Audience targeting7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization6.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow management8.24 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.3
4 Ratings
23% below category average
KUKU.io
-
Ratings
Automated routing and prioritization6.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories6.43 Ratings00 Ratings
Bulk actions5.83 Ratings00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
3 Ratings
1% above category average
KUKU.io
-
Ratings
Lead generation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Content marketing7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Paid media management8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.01 Ratings00 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
KUKU.io
2.4
2 Ratings
111% below category average
Twitter6.75 Ratings1.12 Ratings
Facebook8.05 Ratings1.01 Ratings
LinkedIn5.95 Ratings1.12 Ratings
Google+8.01 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Instagram7.05 Ratings1.12 Ratings
Pinterest7.03 Ratings1.01 Ratings
YouTube8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
5 Ratings
4% below category average
KUKU.io
1.0
1 Ratings
155% below category average
Campaign success analytics8.34 Ratings1.01 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Competitor analysis7.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
5 Ratings
9% below category average
KUKU.io
1.0
1 Ratings
156% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.25 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.42 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiKUKU.io
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(74 ratings)
1.1
(2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(42 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiKUKU.io
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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XB Software Ltd.
If you would like a reliable scheduling tool, KUKU.io is not the one to use. If you like to share lots of industry news, secondary content, or content from your website/blog, be aware that KUKU.io will corrupt the preview headline. You would be far better off using another scheduling tool. I have now changed to a free tool and it has all the same capabilities without this corruption issue. I also used paid ones which are equally good.
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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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XB Software Ltd.
  • It is easy to use and setup.
  • Nice and clean UI
  • Great support if you need help or if you have any kind of feedback.
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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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XB Software Ltd.
  • io corrupts headlines of articles you reshare. When you schedule a post with a URL in it, the Title of the blog post that is displayed below the picture/preview gets corrupted. So if you add any text in with the URL, that will replace the headline. I have noticed this on both LinkedIn and Twitter.
  • Very poor support team. I have found that the support team at KUKU.io are extremely rude, unwilling to help you and take a long time to reply. On some occasions I have had to message them three times in the chatbot for them to even reply. None of these times has the issue been resolved. When I reported to them that KUKU.io was corrupting headlines, at first they refused to take responsibility. Finally, they admitted it was the platforms fault but said they were not doing anything at that time to fix it.
  • Analytics are poor. The analytics suite in KUKU.io does not give you anything analytics for LinkedIn. The ones it provides for Twitter you can get directly from Twitter. So no value is added there.
  • You cannot tag LinkedIn accounts. I use HubSpot to schedule social media posts which allows you to tag companies at least. KUKU.io cannot.
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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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XB Software Ltd.
No answers on this topic
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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XB Software Ltd.
No answers on this topic
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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XB Software Ltd.
The support team are extremely rude and often unresponsive. All of the issues I have reported to Kuku has been responded to with "we are not looking to resolve this issue at this time." On a few occasions, they have tried to deny the issue lies with them, before evidence has been provided. Then, they have refused to fix the issue.
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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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XB Software Ltd.
No answers on this topic
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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XB Software Ltd.
No answers on this topic
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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XB Software Ltd.
I think Buffer is a great service, but I like the simplicity of KUKU.io and the engagement of the people working at KUKU.io
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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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XB Software Ltd.
  • Since I am using KUKU.io it saved me a ton of time I am able to spend on other things.
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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.

KUKU.io Screenshots

Screenshot of Content Calendar with tags, pics, dates and editing optionScreenshot of Social media analytics to track engagement of your contentScreenshot of Posting tools. The variety of tools to automate posting. Editing functions in one window.Screenshot of Add your team member, give roles and edit access to your projects. Track team perfomance.