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:…
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Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Score10 out of 10
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Sparkcentral was a social customer care solution and cloud-based customer engagement platform that catered specifically to customer care teams within large enterprises, enabling them to deliver real-time social customer service. Sparkcentral was acquired by Hootsuite in January 2021. The product has since been discontinued.
Social Media Account Manager in Social Media at TwinBear Management (Media Production, 1-10 employees)
Chose Sparkcentral (discontinued)
I selected Sparkcentral because I am a social media engagement director, so engagement is top priority for me and Sparkcentral does exactly that. It's not focused on marketing, word clouds, etc. It's focused on the incoming social media volume of your brand.
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Key User Insights
Would buy again
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Delivers good value for the price
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Happy with the feature set
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Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Implementation went as expected
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Features
Emplifi
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Listening/monitoring
Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
7.8
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Boolean keyword searches
8.52 Ratings
00 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam
7.13 Ratings
00 Ratings
Sentiment analysis
8.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage
7.54 Ratings
00 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
7.4
5 Ratings
8% below category average
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Content planning and scheduling
7.85 Ratings
00 Ratings
Audience targeting
7.04 Ratings
00 Ratings
Content optimization
6.85 Ratings
00 Ratings
Workflow management
8.24 Ratings
00 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
6.3
4 Ratings
23% below category average
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Automated routing and prioritization
6.64 Ratings
00 Ratings
Customer interaction histories
6.43 Ratings
00 Ratings
Bulk actions
5.83 Ratings
00 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
7.8
3 Ratings
1% above category average
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
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Ratings
Lead generation
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Content marketing
7.33 Ratings
00 Ratings
Paid media management
8.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
7.2
5 Ratings
16% below category average
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Ratings
Twitter
6.75 Ratings
00 Ratings
Facebook
8.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
LinkedIn
5.95 Ratings
00 Ratings
Google+
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Instagram
7.05 Ratings
00 Ratings
Pinterest
7.03 Ratings
00 Ratings
YouTube
8.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
7.6
5 Ratings
4% below category average
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Campaign success analytics
8.34 Ratings
00 Ratings
Real-time tracking
7.25 Ratings
00 Ratings
Competitor analysis
7.44 Ratings
00 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Feature
Emplifi
7.3
5 Ratings
9% below category average
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Role-based user permissions & privileges
8.25 Ratings
00 Ratings
Mobile access
6.42 Ratings
00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Emplifi
Sparkcentral (discontinued)
Small Businesses
Sendible
Score7.6 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
Vista Social
Score9.5 out of 10
Khoros Service
Score8.9 out of 10
Enterprises
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
- 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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Sparkcentral has an extremely dedicated customer service team The platform UX is brilliant Reports are very detailed & easy to export The system is stable more than 98% of the time Queue management is extremely easy They need to work on a mobile app / making the website mobile friendly The ability to add more social media channels is essential
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The biggest advantage of the Sparkcentral platform is its "inbox zero" philosophy. With this, our customer support requests are queued within the app, and agents need to work down the queue to keep it empty.
The app is designed from the ground up for customer care - instead of taking a generic social platform, and sprinkling in some customer care tools. Everything about Sparkcental is designed for helping our customers.
Sparkcentral allows us to do much better CRM. We can make customer notes, see recent interactions, determine who helped the customer (and when).
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
In the beginning our team had the option to see what another user was typing as they responded to a post. With the latest update, this was taken away. That feature was key for us to shadow agents remotely who are still in training to provide real time feedback.
Our company has a number of different brands that we manage. Having a truly unified queue would be a great addition for us!
The bulk resolve should allow the option to select on the posts that you wish to resolve instead of selecting a time frame for bulk resolve. Often we find that marketing posts generate more volume in the evening. However, there are sometimes posts where the customer needs assistance during that time. So, if we were to bulk resolve for a certain number of evening hours we would potentially miss a customer's concern through that option as it is currently. But, if the option was to go through and select on all marketing posts and then bulk resolve you would ensure that you are not missing a post where a customer needs assistance.
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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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Sparkcentral has never given us a good reason to consider any other option. Aside from all the positive points I mentioned in previous areas of this review, something else that has really impressed us is their customer service (makes sense, they're a customer service company after all!). Any time we have a question or concern, we send them an email and we get a response almost instantly.
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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
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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Sparkcentral does what it has offered to do, where other software made empty promises, Sparkcentral delivers. They also inform us, anytime they are undergoing maintenance or when Twitter or Facebook has an API change, where in previous cases we would have to discover this ourselves.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. TR verified that a representative sample of customers was invited. More Info