Emplifi vs. Piano Amplifier

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
Piano Amplifier
Score 5.6 out of 10
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A solution to amplify content with AI-powered social publishing. Used to grow and engage an audience through real-time data and machine-learning optimization, guiding users to content, and to just the right place in the social conversation. Socialflow was acquired by Piano in 2022, and is now a Piano solution.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Piano Amplifier
5.0
Ratings
43% below category average
Boolean keyword searches8.50 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam7.10 Ratings4.60 Ratings
Sentiment analysis8.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Broad channel coverage7.50 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.4
Ratings
8% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.1
Ratings
45% below category average
Content planning and scheduling7.80 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Audience targeting7.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Content optimization6.80 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Workflow management8.20 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
6.3
Ratings
23% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.0
Ratings
45% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization6.60 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Customer interaction histories6.40 Ratings4.60 Ratings
Bulk actions5.80 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Piano Amplifier
5.1
Ratings
41% below category average
Lead generation8.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Content marketing7.30 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Paid media management8.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions8.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.2
Ratings
16% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.7
Ratings
39% below category average
Twitter6.70 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Facebook8.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
LinkedIn5.90 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Google+8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Instagram7.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Pinterest7.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
YouTube8.00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Piano Amplifier
5.1
Ratings
43% below category average
Campaign success analytics8.30 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Real-time tracking7.20 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Competitor analysis7.40 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
Emplifi
7.3
Ratings
9% below category average
Piano Amplifier
7.1
Ratings
12% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges8.20 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Mobile access6.40 Ratings7.10 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
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5.6
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Likelihood to Renew
9.1
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9.0
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Usability
7.3
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5.1
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Support Rating
9.0
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5.6
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Online Training
6.0
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Implementation Rating
9.1
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User Testimonials
EmplifiPiano Amplifier
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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SocialFlow is good on paper but in my personal experience it is clunky, doesn’t do what you want it to, and their support team doesn’t take your issues seriously. I wouldn’t recommend this if you work on tight timeframes as it has a scattergun approach to posting on Facebook. I would like to think that my experiences are due to me not having thorough training, but I am not sure if this is the case.
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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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  • Unique algorithm does not just 'time' posts, it helps determine the optimal time for posts to be distributed. Its why all the major publishers like NYT, WSJ, Conde Nast, Mashable, etc. use SocialFlow to distribute its social content.
  • Dashboard gives insight into which posts perform best.
  • It's streamlined and simple and not overly or unnecessarily feature-laden.
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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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  • Per-client customizations to differentiate themselves from competitors
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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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Big bang for buck. My clients like the results and the insights.
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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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I give this rating as an outcome to understand competitor social strategy to improve strategic positioning. Drive improvement by benchmarking and serving to compete on content Identify trends, topics/themes, potential threats, etc. Improve campaigns by measuring and comparing audience reach, Interaction, etc. Measure engagement rate to analyze audience association.​ What themes/topics are generating higher engagement Insights to assist marketing teams in planning future campaigns
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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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I give this rating as overall support for Social footprint analysis to identify and benchmark the competitor's social presence. Extraction of retrospective data from identified social channels. Complex query building with defined subsets of keywords to gauge social buzz. Analysis of historic datasets with a detailed classification that offered insights into the marketing efforts and messaging patterns.
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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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SocialFlow stacks up against others by : 1. Event registrations, participation and promotions, companies highlighting their sessions, speakers, and delegations of different countries drove the event-specific volumes 2. Using Twitter as the primary platform and mainly constituted mentions around registrations, participations, promotions of sessions/panels, and opinions on the same 3. Discussions around the event’s annual themes, the new ‘Davos Manifesto’ and posts expressing delight for being invited, participation confirmations, and comments on different sessions/panel promotions drove the positive coverage 4. During-Event and Post-Event periods saw companies shift their focus to highlight sessions and panel discussions aligned more toward business-driven themes
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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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  • It doesn’t post what we expect.
  • It posts things over and over again.
  • It’s not reliable for forward Planning.
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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.