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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

    Vista Social

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AVista Social is a social media management platform that offers features such as schedule of content, managing conversations through a universal inbox, managing reviews, social listening and reporting.

    $79

    per month

    Pricing
    EmplifiVista Social
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Professional
    $79
    per month
    Advanced
    $149
    per month
    Scale
    $379
    per month
    Enterprise
    $379
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    EmplifiVista Social
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    EmplifiVista Social
    Considered Both Products
    Emplifi Inc
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    Vista Social
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    40 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    37 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    35 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    39 Answers
    Features
    EmplifiVista Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Vista Social
    9.1
    14 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches8.52 Ratings9.29 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam7.13 Ratings8.810 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis8.02 Ratings8.912 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.54 Ratings9.713 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.4
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Vista Social
    9.5
    18 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling7.85 Ratings10.018 Ratings
    Audience targeting7.04 Ratings9.116 Ratings
    Content optimization6.85 Ratings9.217 Ratings
    Workflow management8.24 Ratings9.817 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    6.3
    4 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Vista Social
    9.1
    15 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization6.64 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories6.43 Ratings9.115 Ratings
    Bulk actions5.83 Ratings9.115 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.8
    3 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Vista Social
    9.0
    15 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Lead generation8.01 Ratings8.712 Ratings
    Content marketing7.33 Ratings9.414 Ratings
    Paid media management8.02 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions8.01 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Vista Social
    9.4
    16 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Twitter6.75 Ratings9.416 Ratings
    Facebook8.05 Ratings9.416 Ratings
    LinkedIn5.95 Ratings9.416 Ratings
    Google+8.01 Ratings9.013 Ratings
    Instagram7.05 Ratings9.616 Ratings
    Pinterest7.03 Ratings9.313 Ratings
    YouTube8.02 Ratings9.315 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.6
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Vista Social
    9.2
    17 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Campaign success analytics8.34 Ratings9.517 Ratings
    Real-time tracking7.25 Ratings9.216 Ratings
    Competitor analysis7.44 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Emplifi and Vista Social
    Feature
    Emplifi
    7.3
    5 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Vista Social
    9.2
    14 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges8.25 Ratings9.313 Ratings
    Mobile access6.42 Ratings9.114 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    EmplifiVista Social
    Small Businesses
    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Sprout Social
    Score8.6 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
    EmplifiVista Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (74 ratings)
    9.5
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    9.6
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    EmplifiVista Social
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Vista Social
    When I need to schedule a full week of posts for multiple clients. the calendar view makes it fast and clear. When a client sends last-minute edits, I can quickly reschedule or update posts by dragging them in the calendar. When I’m short on time I use the AI tools to generate quick captions and adjust them to fit the brand voice. When I manage comments and DMs I reply to everything from one inbox, without switching platforms. When planning content, I use Canva inside Vista Social and publish directly, which saves a lot of time.
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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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    Vista Social
    • The design and layout of the site is simple, with the options to click through the different tools on the left hand side of the page. What I liked most about Vista Social is the ability to combine all the different tools that a social media manager needs into one platform.
    • I typically use various different apps and platforms to write down notes, assign tasks to different team members, and look at my overall content calendar for the month. It is brilliant that Vista Social is able to combine all of these into one platform.
    • When first signing up to Vista Social and exploring the platform, each page offers you a walkthrough of all of the tools available to you, which is really handy, as well as a customer support section on the right bottom hand corner.
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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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    Vista Social
    • I think the price is quite high compared to hiring a person for the same task. This may put one off from purchasing as with a bit more time you can do the same job yourself or with an employee for much less
    • In my opinion, the interface is rather complicated visually and doesn't have an appeal. It is cramped with so many features that provide a sense of confusion whilst starting off
    • In my experience, the tutorials do leave a few questions afterwards regarding set up and this can take more time to figure out by 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
    Incentivized
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    Vista Social
    Very effective, efficient and an integral part of our daily work. Our team members are more productive and motivated to finish projects.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Vista Social
    Since the platform is user-friendly and easy to navigate, start using it and making content creation feel effortless. The dashboard and each module for content management and creation it has the visual hierarchies in place. Building, customizing and exporting reports to PDF facilitate the journey with the clients. Its overall usability is well rounded for such large and powerful tool.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Vista Social
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Vista Social
    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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    Vista Social
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Vista Social
    It's reasonably priced compared to others and offers more capabilities for creating and implementing marketing campaigns. For example, social listening, reputation management, and employee advocacy are all tools it has that I haven't found in the previous ones. It also supports all marketing campaigns, not just social media.
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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
    Incentivized
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    Vista Social
    • The DM automation feature means we're not missing out on important messages when we're off the clock (after hours essentially), which is a huge advantage in hospitality where response time is everything.
    • In most cases, time is money, and being able to manage all our platforms from one place has cut down hours of switching between apps and tabs. That in itself has boosted our company's productivity and allowed the team to respond faster to guests and potential leads.
    • The real-time insights and mentions helps us tweak content and react to trends quicker, which has increased our visibility and bookings.
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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.