Emplifi vs. Later Social

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
Later Social
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
Later (formerly Latergramme) in Vancouver offers an Instagram focused social media marketing platform, which supports the planning and scheduling of content to Instagram, as well as Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
$25
per month
Pricing
EmplifiLater Social
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$25
per month
Growth
$45
per month
Advanced
$80
per month
Agency
$200
per month
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EmplifiLater Social
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details33% discount available for annual subscription.
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Community Pulse
EmplifiLater Social
Features
EmplifiLater Social
Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Later Social
-
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
Later Social
9.0
Ratings
11% above category average
Content planning and scheduling7.80 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Audience targeting7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content optimization6.80 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Workflow management8.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.3
Ratings
23% below category average
Later Social
-
Ratings
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
Later Social
-
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
Later Social
7.2
Ratings
16% below category average
Twitter6.70 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Facebook8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
LinkedIn5.90 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Google+8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Instagram7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pinterest7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
YouTube8.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Later Social
4.0
Ratings
66% below category average
Campaign success analytics8.30 Ratings4.00 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
Later Social
10.0
Ratings
22% above category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access6.40 Ratings10.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
EmplifiLater Social
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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Usability
7.3
(0 ratings)
9.4
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Online Training
6.0
(0 ratings)
-
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Implementation Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
EmplifiLater Social
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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Later is great for not only small and large businesses, but also for influencers who want a curated feed that they can easily auto-publish. If you need to tag your Instagram photos on a consistent basis, that might be a struggle, but in general, for the minimal cost and features, Later is well worth the cost. Additionally, their technical support takes 24-28 hours to respond to via chat, but it's within the software so it's very simple.
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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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  • Allows you to schedule Instagram Stories Content. No other tool that I have tried allows this feature.
  • Great analytics available for Instagram - something that lacks on many other platforms.
  • The LinkIn.Bio feature allows you to drive traffic to multiple sources, which is helpful for accounts without a swipe-up link.
  • It's easy to switch between accounts if you are managing multiple brands and platforms.
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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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  • Would be wonderful if there was a way to copy posts easily.
  • Would be nice to view posts without opening like you plan to edit them. Just want to preview them like an email.
  • Would be nice to be able to schedule posts to Facebook Groups.
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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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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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The desktop site is almost perfect, I love it. I love that I can drag and drop, I love that I can easily and quickly switch to analytics and switching profiles... love the ease of link in bio. so great!
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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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Later are not just a software tool, they also provide marketing advice, tips, and tutorials via their blog. I’ve only had to reach out to them for help a few times and have found them to respond much faster than other tools in their category. I receive weekly emails with updates, marketing tips and invites to online events. I look forward to their emails as I’ve learned a lot of things that I’ve been able to actually implement.
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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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Implementation Rating
The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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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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It's superior. Simply put. Later has better features and stronger functionalities, many of which none of these other tools have. When I used any of the previous tools there was always something missing so I had no choice but to work with two or three tools at the same time. Later replaced all of those tools and now I can manage everything from one single tool.
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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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  • Later has at least made me accountable for my content calendar. It helps me schedule posts in advance and allows me to see what my page will look like so I can visually plan out content.
  • Later has helped me post a few times with the auto-post feature. It's been great for my static images, but I just wish I could do it for everything!
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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.