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    Mintel

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AMintel is a market intelligence platform and provider of industry specific information and analysis.N/A

    UserTesting

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AUserTesting helps UX researchers, designers, product teams, and marketers gather actionable insights through research, testing, and feedback. With a network of real people ready to share their perspectives, UserTesting enables organizations to make customer-first decisions at scale.N/A
    Pricing
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    MintelUserTesting
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsPricing in Mintel's "Reports Store" is based on industry and specific market.—
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    Mintel
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
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    Financial Research
    Comparison of Financial Research features of Mintel and UserTesting
    Feature
    Mintel
    7.5
    1 Ratings
    10% below category average
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    Ratings
    Industry-Specific Information9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search Tools6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Market Research
    Comparison of Market Research features of Mintel and UserTesting
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    Mintel
    5.8
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
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    Competitor Research3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consumer Feedback8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitor alerts3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Market Insights and Reports9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Qualtrics
    Score7.1 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score7.1 out of 10
    Dovetail
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Qualtrics
    Score7.1 out of 10
    Optimal
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    User Ratings
    MintelUserTesting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (179 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    8.4
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
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    8.1
    (157 ratings)
    Availability
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    9.1
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    Performance
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    9.1
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    Support Rating
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    8.3
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    Implementation Rating
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    4.6
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    Configurability
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    7.3
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    Product Scalability
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    7.3
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    MintelUserTesting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Mintel
    If you are new to an consumer-facing industry and want to get the lay of the land, this would be a great product for you. It could help you understand consumer wants and motivators, and would be helpful for keeping up with an industry, and for developing your own stance within that industry. If you're an agency, supporting a brand, Mintel is helpful when trying to develop brand strategies (branding, which claims are best to highlight, consumer profiling, etc).
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    UserTesting
    Well suited to its original purpose- usability testing and interviews. This can be performed at pace, given the large audience (although our brands are very well known so this should not be a barrier) and there is a decent level of task customisation when conducting unmoderated testing. Its less appropriate for survey where you are looking to capture genuine intent/behaviour, even with screeners the data skews more positively than onsite survey, makes me question the quality of survey respondents.
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    Pros
    Mintel
    • beautiful graphs and visualizations that can easily be taken and put into your reports.
    • a wide variety of topics and industries covered
    • Mintel customer service reps are extremely responsive and are always willing to help you dig deeper into a topic if needed
    • data accessibility -- you can download a pdf report, raw data, or just read articles
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    UserTesting
    • Product Manager who follows up on your UserTesting usage and gives advice/support when you need it.
    • UserTesting University is a great platform to learn how to use UT and general information about research.
    • UserTesting can find participants quickly, so you won't need to wait long before you can start the analysis.
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    Cons
    Mintel
    • it would be nice if Mintel got even more specialized with some of their industry/product groups. For example, we wanted to do research on what was happening in the consumer orthodontia space, but the best we could do is get info on consumer feelings around oral healthcare products like toothpaste, mouthwash, etc.
    • If they offered a B2B version of this tool, that would be game changing.
    • Affordability. Individual reports are quite expensive, but getting an annual subscription is probably also prohibitive for smaller businesses
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    UserTesting
    • Quality of participant pool - many are career testers, and many are untruthful. Since sessions are auto-scheduled if the screener is past, you often don't know until they've completed the test. Allow double screening or be more stringent in removing users from the platform.
    • Unfinished products - focus on making one product the best it can be before moving on to a new one. Unmoderated testing is still missing features (randomization of 3 or more prototypes, etc.)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Mintel
    No answers on this topic
    UserTesting
    I'm very happy with my experience of the product and the level of service and learning resources they provide. If the service becomes more expensive than it currently is then we might not be able to justify additional cost - but this is theoretical. I would recommend UserTesting and would ideally renew our contract.
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    Usability
    Mintel
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    UserTesting
    It can be difficult to organize our tests and go back and find information. I think the AI tools are helping and will help with this, but for now it is time consuming to sort through all of the tests and information and then synthesize it and share it with others. It just takes a lot of time.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Mintel
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    UserTesting
    Never encountered any problems
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    Performance
    Mintel
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    UserTesting
    Perfectly fine. Never had any problems.
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    Support Rating
    Mintel
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    UserTesting
    I have contacted UserTesting's customer service online, by email, or by phone a few times, and each time, I have encountered the same professionalism and expertise. Even in person during a work event, they were there, and it was the same experience.
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    Implementation Rating
    Mintel
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    UserTesting
    From a technical perspective, the implementation was extremely smooth. Most of the change management / implementation hurdles were clearing use of the tool through our various security, legal, and information privacy teams. Once these concerns were addressed (UserTesting.com was very helpful in providing all the needed documentation), the implementation process was very simple and we were able to get going right away.
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    UserTesting
    The quality of the participants: they usually have good feedback and act like "professional" users. Which is good when we want a few insights in a short amount of time. Also, the interface is good. I miss having more features, like a good transcription tool like we have in Condens
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    Scalability
    Mintel
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    UserTesting
    The package we have limits the number of people who can set up tests. This prevents us from scaling the use of the platform.
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    Return on Investment
    Mintel
    • Mintel industry data has been the backbone of our agency's blog, email and marketing eblasts, which helps position us as a thought-leader.
    • I can't say that Mintel stats single-handedly won some new business pitches for us, but adding Mintel stats to a pitch (especially one that we might be somewhat new to), has certainly strengthened our pitch and made us look like confident experts.
    • when we've supported a client with a new product launch, we've used Mintel to develop an actionable plan about brand positioning, which claims to highlight and how their product will fit in the competitor landscape.
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    UserTesting
    • Content is key to the sign up journey and UserTesting helps me improve that.
    • UserTesting has helped me improve the Cashier on our site, making it easier for users to deposit money.
    • UserTesting is helping me iterate all our content decisions, helping us improve the UX across all platforms.
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    UserTesting Screenshots

    Screenshot of UserTesting's several solutions for gathering rich customer experience narratives.Screenshot of Interactive Path Flows
Built on recent research in data mining, the Interactive Path Flow aggregates interaction data across multiple participant sessions to visualize the customer journey, surface unexpected behaviors, and locate key moments in the customer journey.Screenshot of Keyword Mapping
Similar keywords are automatically grouped based on overall sentiment (positive, negative, or neutral) to identify themes. Highlight reels associated with each keyword are grouped together, to discover the why behind each sentiment.Screenshot of Video capture and live streaming
Digital and real-world customer experiences are recorded on desktop and mobile devices or live streamed for in-platform viewing.Screenshot of Audience targeting
Audiences are specified by screening contributors from UserTesting’s global network of contributors or connecting to any preferred network.