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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Emplifi

    Score7.6 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

    Meta Business Suite

    Score6.5 out of 10
    N/AFormerly known as Facebook Business Suite or Facebook for Business, a solution for small businesses used to manage all business activity on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram from one place. It is presented as a one-stop shop where business owners can manage all marketing and advertising activities on Facebook and Instagram. It centralizes tools that help the user to connect with customers on all apps and get better business results.N/A
    Pricing
    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Emplifi Inc
    Chose Emplifi
    In our view, Socialbakers does not have real competitors. It offers a comprehensive solution for social media analytics and publishing. After thorough market research, we concluded that we would only ask for a bid from Socialbakers.

    Incentivized
    Chose Emplifi
    I inherited Simply Measured when I joined. It was a very clunky platform with Excel data outputs that would freeze my computer because they were so large.

    One thing that I miss is a list of accounts that engaged with owned posts that were in those fairly large Excel files.
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    Meta Platforms Inc
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    65%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    82%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    70%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    Features
    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Meta Business Suite
    4.7
    4 Ratings
    49% below category average
    Boolean keyword searches8.52 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam7.13 Ratings4.33 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis8.02 Ratings5.03 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.54 Ratings5.34 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.4
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Meta Business Suite
    6.3
    6 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling7.85 Ratings6.36 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.04 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Content optimization6.85 Ratings5.34 Ratings
    Workflow management8.24 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Meta Business Suite
    5.3
    5 Ratings
    40% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization6.64 Ratings5.83 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories6.43 Ratings4.14 Ratings
    Bulk actions5.83 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Meta Business Suite
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Lead generation8.01 Ratings5.95 Ratings
    Content marketing7.33 Ratings7.44 Ratings
    Paid media management8.02 Ratings7.55 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions8.01 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Meta Business Suite
    6.2
    4 Ratings
    30% below category average
    Twitter6.75 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Facebook8.05 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    LinkedIn5.95 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Google+8.01 Ratings4.52 Ratings
    Instagram7.05 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Pinterest7.03 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    YouTube8.02 Ratings5.02 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Meta Business Suite
    6.3
    6 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Campaign success analytics8.34 Ratings6.26 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.25 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Competitor analysis7.44 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Meta Business Suite
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Meta Business Suite
    4.8
    5 Ratings
    50% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.25 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Mobile access6.42 Ratings4.75 Ratings
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    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
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    Sendible
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (74 ratings)
    5.3
    (98 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    4.2
    (6 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EmplifiMeta Business Suite
    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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite has been highly effective in exposing our brand and our clients' brands to a large audience. It is also one of the most cost-effective ad platforms for B2B marketing campaigns. The issue is filtering out low-quality leads from a B2B lead generation process, as you often receive as many poor-quality leads as high-quality ones.
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Segmentation is HUGE. You can segment by almost anything you want, be it demographic, sociological, behavioral... you name it. You can also create targets based on your visitors and their actions. Even custom lists.
    • They are very good at optimizing your campaigns automatically. This is so important because it will improve your ROI in several multiples otherwise
    • Managing ads in general works fine, and the data, even though is not exactly as accurate as Analytics, it's pretty decent.
    • Gives you placements and different ad types so you can get the most out of it.
    • Pixel and catalog integration are very powerful. You can almost instantly start tracking and catalog fetches your site daily for updates.
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • The planner enables timings of others' posts to be seen easily, but an easier view of that content (eg by hovering over it) would be preferable
    • Insights gives detailed information on the performance of posts, but could be more intuitive - and it would be helpful if it flagged particularly good performers or practices.
    • Sometimes using @ tags is a little slow - and it's not always easy to tell which ones you want without opening another window and testing them yourself.
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    We have to continue using this tool in order to be effective on this marketing platform. Though there are several changes I wish we could see, the fact is that we will still need to use this product to provide customers with the information they need.
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Meta Business Suite is a solid, centralized tool that covers the core needs of social media planning and publishing. However, some limitations — like inconsistent Reels functionality, clunky previews, and lack of creative asset organization — hold it back from being a seamless, end-to-end solution. There's a lot of potential with continued improvements.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Emplifi Inc
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've only dealt with the API having issues a couple times, but as you can imagine an outage is not something an advertiser would find acceptable, especially during any ecommerce-heavy time of year. The overall platform could use some help with availability when it comes to authentication, as it struggles with consistency in authentication.
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    Performance
    Emplifi Inc
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    Meta Platforms Inc
    There are a lot of shortcomings when it comes to performance. There are pages that I do not expect to have much information to load on the page, yet it takes an incredibly long time (10+ secondes). I have not had experience with the integration slowing other platforms down too much.
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    I've found the Facebook for Business support to be hit or miss. For billing questions they're timely and helpful. For complex questions about specific services I've often received a longer wait and a less helpful experience. I'm often redirected to their docs, which are often not particularly helpful.
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Take all of the training offered through Facebook first before attempting to create a page on the platform. Learn all of the capabilities available to you. Learn about the different types of audiences who might be interested in seeing your page. Create short video clips as though they are viewed at a much higher rate than anything else. Offer free giveaways or raffles to further build to your list of prospects and drive traffic to your website
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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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    Compared to the other tools listed above, Meta Business Suite has good navigation, great interest audience-building tools, okay ad analytics, a great messaging system, and below-average customer support. We chose Meta Business Suite for its massive user base and for its industry-leading targeting functionality (which is a result of that massive user base!).
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    Scalability
    Emplifi Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Meta Platforms Inc
    This product is definitely able to run at scale, but it would be wise to have enough eyeballs to oversee it and the tools for keeping the campaigns, adsets, and ads organized could use some improvement. I can also see the UI interfering with usability at greater amounts of 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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    Meta Platforms Inc
    • Overall positive ROI has been achieved using this platform. You must have a clear understanding of where your CPL maximums are to remain profitable and either optimize to success or pull the plug on campaigns that are bleeding spend.
    • This is a great platform to build new audiences or grow existing ones.
    • Building audience segments via pixel tracking is a huge win for this platform.
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    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.