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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Khoros Social Media Management

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium) is a social media management platform. Key features include: Plan and Organize Social Campaigns, Manage Real-Time Engagement, and Learn and Prove Social ImpactN/A

    Cyfe

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ACyfe is all-in-one dashboard software for analyzing data from online services like Google Analytics, Salesforce, AdSense, MailChimp, Amazon, Facebook, etc, from Traject.

    $29

    per month

    Pricing
    Khoros Social Media ManagementCyfe
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $29
    per month
    Standard
    $39
    per month
    Pro
    $65
    per month
    Premier
    $119
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Khoros Social Media ManagementCyfe
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Khoros Social Media ManagementCyfe
    Considered Both Products
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    No answer on this topic
    Traject
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    105 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    90%
    Delivers good value for the price
    75 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    107 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    50 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    52 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Khoros Social Media ManagementCyfe
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.0
    120 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Boolean keyword searches9.093 Ratings00 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam6.9102 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis8.991 Ratings00 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage7.0113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.6
    151 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Content planning and scheduling9.5149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience targeting8.0115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content optimization9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow management8.0133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.8
    116 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Automated routing and prioritization8.594 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories8.0106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Bulk actions9.997 Ratings00 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.6
    106 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Lead generation8.050 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content marketing7.589 Ratings00 Ratings
    Paid media management7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions8.093 Ratings00 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    7.5
    150 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Twitter8.0141 Ratings00 Ratings
    Facebook8.0146 Ratings00 Ratings
    LinkedIn6.0107 Ratings00 Ratings
    Google+9.018 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instagram8.5135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pinterest6.048 Ratings00 Ratings
    YouTube7.333 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.9
    134 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Campaign success analytics8.5124 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real-time tracking9.4123 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor analysis8.979 Ratings00 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    8.0
    139 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Cyfe, by Traject
    -
    Ratings
    Role-based user permissions & privileges9.0135 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile access7.0114 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    6.9
    27 Ratings
    17% below category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings6.817 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings5.027 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.120 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.5
    25 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.715 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.120 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    9.2
    22 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings6.89 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings10.016 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.9
    18 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.614 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.6
    21 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.020 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings6.314 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings9.76 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    9.3
    19 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings9.418 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings7.713 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Khoros Social Media Management and Cyfe, by Traject
    Feature
    Khoros Social Media Management
    -
    Ratings
    Cyfe, by Traject
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    8% above category average
    REST API00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings10.02 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings5.83 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Khoros Social Media ManagementCyfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (187 ratings)
    8.0
    (29 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (34 ratings)
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (29 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    9.7
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.9
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    6.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (24 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (27 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (27 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    5.5
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (125 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Khoros Social Media ManagementCyfe
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    While I cannot say any scenarios where Khoros wouldn't be useful (when it comes to social media moderation), I can say it is very well suited for clients who have time constraints on their work. With the speed Khoros can pull in new content, we see issues for the client almost immediately.
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    Traject
    Cyfe might be for you if you are looking for a cost-effective way to display all of your marketing metrics in one place. If you are looking for a detailed, fine-tuned, niche, or extremely specific metrics, this might not be the best solution. Cyfe is good for a general health check-up of marketing, but not a finely tuned examination.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Reporting is great - easy to create bespoke dashboards for multiple ways to view the data and trends in platform
    • Onboarding and training - a good repository of knowledge articles for users to access on most aspects of the platform for self-learning
    • The user-friendly and intuitive interface allows any user to quickly assimilate how to use the platform.
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    Traject
    • Has preset metric groups that pull similar stats together in one "bucket" saving you the time of setting up each stat-line one by one
    • Allows you to easily adjust the timeframe for what stats you want to see, so you can find YOY stats or just last month's stats rather quickly
    • Colored visualizations of stats make it easy to notice when campaigns are taking off
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Look and feel of the interface could use a refresh as it's not very exciting to use
    • Improve analytics features and accuracy
    • Facilitate bulk actions
    • Better alerts/visibility of collaborative actions and assigned tasks
    • Clearer communication around new feature releases and announcements
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    Traject
    • I'd love to see additional functionality to customize colors. The light/dark option is very nice, but a little more flexibility in the colors would go a long way, especially if it was possible at the dashboard level rather than just the account level. Along the same lines, being able to customize the charts a little more, for example being able to show an x-axis on single data type graphs, could make them easier to read in some cases.
    • Being able to choose to report on converted clicks or conversions in AdWords would be helpful.
    • Needs the ability to show the date range on the shared URL dashboards. Would be even better if the date range was adjustable on that view, too.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    There is no product like Khoros. Our company lives and dies by the analytics, and to date, we have not seen a more comprehensive analytics structure for any social media management tool. Khoros support is also fantastic, responding and resolving any and all questions, ideas, or complaints, usually in 24 hours.
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    Traject
    It has become a part of our internal tools so unless a competitor comes out with similar functionality as a similar price point it is unlikely that we would not renew. One area that would cause us not to renew would be if a competing service came out with more third-party integrations that match our needs. Price at this point is no longer an issue as it would allow us to automate a somewhat manual process that we have now connecting Cyfe widgets to Google Sheets.
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    Usability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros Marketing is very user-friendly and easy to navigate. The calendar visibility is the view I use most so I can see all posts going out on all of our channels. It allows us to time posts in a proper cadence so we don't overlap with other pressing content.
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    Traject
    I gave it a rating of 7 because it does a good job at what it does, but there are missing that are missing which I would have benefited from. For instance, if I was able to drill down more on the specific metrics I was able to see, that would have been helpful.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • We still experience a bit of downtime and slowness here but things have drastically improved in the last year with their feature updates and reconfigured hosting.
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros has greatly improved the performance of its SaaS products in the last 5 years. Their applications, including Conversations, Intelligence, and Experiences, all load quickly with real-time data. This performance is critical to provide meaningful, social customer support, and marketing. The performance maintains integrity even when you deploy powerful integrations like Salesforce Customer Relationship Manager.
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Overall, support does a great job and is timely in their responses and efforts. We have had to contact support many times due to the Capture app. Some tickets have remained open for months, while others get resolved quickly. I understand this is not always up to support and they often have to wait for their engineering team to fix issues that we identified, but it's difficult to deal with issues that are affecting our workflow, especially for extended amounts of time.
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    Traject
    Because I had a very minor question and I was able to speak directly to the founder through LinkedIn and through email. I know that as they grow this may not always be an option but the fact that he made himself available to answer my questions said a lot about his passion for the product.
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    In-Person Training
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • As a very early customer, we did not undergo formal training but worked closely with the team to get the system set up to do what we wanted. However, online training resources are now available with many blog posts / video lessons and tutorials.
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    it is important to note that my perspective is not necessarily common - I'm a geek/nerd/poweruser in general, so I found the online resources to be more than adequate (and often very aesthetically pleasing, too). That said, a less "geeky" person might struggle a bit.
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    The implementation team from Khoros were great - they worked hard to understand our somewhat complex organization, and were with us all the way through face to face meetings, user training, and technical training. We had a clearly defined account manager and implementation manager, who worked really effectively together and with us.
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    Traject
    Cyfe is a 15 minutes implementation, then some time to get your data sources created. This is an easy one person job that will not result in down time or unnecessary wasted man hours.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    On some accounts that I am on, I use Asana in place of Khoros marketing but I much prefer Khoros Marketing. I prefer Khoros Marketing over Asana because I can post directly (and schedule posts) on Khoros but not on Asana. Also, I can moderate directly on Khoros but not Asana
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    Traject
    The Salesforce dashboard is comparably flexible and intuitive, but designed more to its internal CRM focus. SumAll shares the social media dashboard capabilities, but lacks all others. Its interesting feature is side-by-side graph analysis for cross-channel performance. Cyfe might borrow from SumAll's default weekly email summary of performance from the dashboard, but implementation could be too complex. Nuvi dashboard is exclusively for social media marketing, but lacks Cyfe's flexibility for third party integration and window customization settings.
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    Scalability
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    Khoros seems to struggle a little past a certain level of scale. More than 30 separate per day makes it difficult to view all content in the weekly calendar view, which is frustrating and could cause issues. However, the ability to schedule one post across multiple channels is hugely valuable and cuts down on a lot of duplicative work.
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    Traject
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Khoros (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium)
    • Negatively impacted relationship with Khoros as they're notoriously difficult to engage with or able to produce viable results from our feedback.
    • Negatively impacted KPI reporting, as metrics were inaccurate for six months.
    • Negatively impacted resource management, as there've been so many restrictions with this platform that simple, day-to-day tasks take so much longer.
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    Traject
    • Cyfe allows us to provide real time data to our clients
    • Cyfe allows us to provide detailed analytics to our clients showing actual results
    • Cyfe reduced our need to provide monthly "reports" to our marketing clients
    • Cyfe allows us to have better situational awareness and know what is going on throughout our multiple organizations
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    ScreenShots

    Khoros Social Media Management Screenshots

    Screenshot of the channel performance dashboard, for monitoring different metrics and comparing the performance of posts by content type and labels to optimize for the audience.Screenshot of the cross-channel dashboard. It provides a holistic view of paid and organic campaigns, allowing teams to compare performance and optimize for engagement and reach with campaigns.Screenshot of the cross-channel dashboard. Users can compare the performance of posts across channels, ensuring that time and resources are allocated effectively to reach the target audience.Screenshot of the calendar view. This presents all scheduled posts by assignee, channel, and tags so that nothing is missed and content is delivered on time.Screenshot of approval paths in Khoros. Get sign-off and feedback across teams for paid and organic posts to reduce brand risk.