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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

    Tailwind

    Score4 out of 10
    N/ATailwind is a social media marketing solution built specifically for Pinterest marketing. It provides features such as scheduled pins, analytics, and scalable Pinterest activity.

    $14.99

    per month

    Pricing
    EmplifiTailwind
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    billed annually
    Pro
    $24.99
    per month 1 user and profile
    Advanced
    $49.99
    per month 2 users and profiles
    Max
    $99.99
    per month 5 users and 3 profiles
    Tailwind Communities
    $119.88
    billed annually
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiTailwind
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    EmplifiTailwind
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Tailwind
    9.2
    4 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches8.52 Ratings9.52 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam7.13 Ratings8.93 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis8.02 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.54 Ratings9.44 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.4
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Tailwind
    1.0
    11 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling7.85 Ratings1.011 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.04 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    Content optimization6.85 Ratings1.011 Ratings
    Workflow management8.24 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Tailwind
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    155% below category average
    Automated routing and prioritization6.64 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories6.43 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Bulk actions5.83 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Tailwind
    7.7
    7 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Lead generation8.01 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Content marketing7.33 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Paid media management8.02 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions8.01 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Tailwind
    1.0
    11 Ratings
    158% below category average
    Twitter6.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook8.05 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    LinkedIn5.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram7.05 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Pinterest7.03 Ratings1.011 Ratings
    YouTube8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Tailwind
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Campaign success analytics8.34 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.25 Ratings9.87 Ratings
    Competitor analysis7.44 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Tailwind
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Tailwind
    3.0
    8 Ratings
    91% below category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.25 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Mobile access6.42 Ratings5.17 Ratings
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    EmplifiTailwind
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    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    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
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    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    EmplifiTailwind
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (74 ratings)
    1.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    EmplifiTailwind
    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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    Tailwind
    Tailwind can schedule your Pinteret pins, but it's an expensive platform to do this, and given it seems to miss many, it does not even do this well. Further, they continue to get you to reconnect, so it is cumbersome and poorly designed. We used it only because our vendors wanted it, but it's been a total waste of money given how poorly designed it is, how buggy it is and how useless the other so-called services they provide are. Go somewhere else as there are way better solutions as we have now found.
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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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    Tailwind
    • The extension for Chrome and Safari has been EXTREMELY helpful. Through research and continuing education, we frequently see information we'd like to share with our audience and the extension has made this so easy.
    • The SmartLoop feature is great for times when we get busy and may not have the time to add new things to our queue. I know even if I had zero time to devote to social media that day, I was still active and getting information to our candidates.
    • Interface is extremely user friendly. A lot of time these programs that are supposed to help us and bring ease to our workload are so complicated and intense that they cause more stress than they relieve. This is not true with Tailwind. Tailwind is easy to use and truly does take a load of stress off us as an organization.
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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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    Tailwind
    • When you add a link to your post and add the caption, it goes to the first line and not where I had the cursor. I do not want the link to be the first thing people read.
    • The Tailwind Create is fun and helpful but still hard to use.
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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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    Tailwind
    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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    Tailwind
    Tailwind is great when it focuses on it's core functionality. However, in my opinion, Tailwind isn't great at listening to their customers and instead likes to add features that are not beneficial and tend to "break" the other features that ultimately sell it's product. In my opinion, it has lost ROI over time and was much better 3-4 years ago.
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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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    Tailwind
    I have received wonderful support from Tailwind. Recently when I was on their new Tailwind Create and was looking at their site photos, I had a question and I received an answer in less than 24 hours. They have also been receptive to comments and ideas to make the product better and they used some of the ideas as well giving us a discount for the help.
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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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    Tailwind
    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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    Tailwind
    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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    Tailwind
    When I was looking for a solution for Instagram, neither Buffer nor Hootsuite were offering the ability to post directly to Instagram. That may have changed recently, but in my opinion, Tailwind is a much more user-friendly, less (unnecessarily) complex solution for Instagram management. I don't need a ton of in-depth analytics; I just need to be able to be efficient, consistent and engaging in my posts. Tailwind allows me to do that without getting bogged down in all the bells and whistles on Hootsuite or Buffer.
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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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    Tailwind
    • Definitely an ROI - We have increased our clicks on our website due to traffic from Pinterest, primarily from our Smart Loop.
    • We have increased Pinterest following due to our intensive use of Smart Loop, which has led to #1 (increased website traffic).
    • Organization and time management has been a massive advantage of utilizing Tailwind. Because I can set Smart Loop and not worry about it, I can dedicate my time to other areas of the business.
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    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.