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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Kapost

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AUpland Kapost helps you create and distribute meaningful content to support the buyer journey for B2B companies.

    $1

    per month

    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/AOptimizely Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single, AI-powered workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and execute campaigns.N/A
    Pricing
    KapostOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    KapostOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    KapostOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Upland Software
    No answer on this topic
    Optimizely
    Chose Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform is continually developed and improving and is part of the larger suite of Optimizely products. Kapost has not been competitive since they were acquired by Upland.
    Incentivized
    Chose Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    In my experience, no match, please do not use Kapost
    Incentivized
    Chose Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    NewsCred overall is easier to use and establish workflows. The platform is more customizable and organized.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    32 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    18 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    KapostOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Content Creation
    Comparison of Content Creation features of Kapost and Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.2
    9 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    7.1
    37 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Ideation8.07 Ratings8.026 Ratings
    Approval workflows8.09 Ratings7.334 Ratings
    Content collaboration8.09 Ratings8.133 Ratings
    Content calendar8.09 Ratings6.130 Ratings
    Network for content licensing/production9.01 Ratings6.017 Ratings
    Content Publishing
    Comparison of Content Publishing features of Kapost and Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    6.7
    33 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Content hub7.18 Ratings7.326 Ratings
    Forms / Gated content8.05 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Embedded CTAs7.93 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Content distribution9.07 Ratings8.227 Ratings
    Content promotion8.34 Ratings6.021 Ratings
    Content automation8.05 Ratings7.822 Ratings
    Content Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Kapost and Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Kapost
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform
    7.5
    27 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Audience profiling and targeting8.05 Ratings8.23 Ratings
    Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.06 Ratings6.620 Ratings
    Content performance analytics8.07 Ratings6.924 Ratings
    Campaign optimization dashboard8.05 Ratings7.120 Ratings
    Competitive analytics7.92 Ratings8.612 Ratings
    User Ratings
    KapostOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    7.3
    (38 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (33 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    KapostOptimizely Content Marketing Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Upland Software
    Kapost has potential to be a great asset in small and large orgs. If you're not producing a great deal of content, or coordinating across a large team, there's still tremendous value, but it scales as your org scales because it makes it easier to coordinate and manage large teams and large content archives.
    Incentivized
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    Optimizely
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    Pros
    Upland Software
    • Filtering: If you make the most out of your custom details and custom fields, you can gain newfound access to materials that may have long been lost in the ether. It's really easy for us, for instance, to see all of our videos at once. Or everything targeting a certain buying stage. Or you can keyword search to see everything on one topic.
    • Workflows: It's really nice to lay out "who sees what when" in a digital way, because everyone involved on an asset can easily see what stage things are at. You can also set deadlines to tasks, which seems a bit more firm than a casual email, because you can visually see how meeting your deadline fits within the whole timeline.
    • Calendars: The calendar feature is nice for us because we have a blog, so we can see when everything is (supposed) to go live. It's easy to see when I, as a copy editor, should be expecting work, so I can align my day accordingly. Way better than the old-fashioned "mental note" system.
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    Optimizely
    • The CMP really is useful for us not only to manage the processes behind how we create content that we serve in different platforms like websites, landing pages, emails, social media, but it also help us as a team that is scattered around the globe to be able to be connected all the time to be able to see what we're working on, to be able to share assets as well. We are not reinventing the wheel to be able to show to other people within the organization what is happening at any given point. We use it not only for assets now, but we use it also for things like planning our webinars, planning our face-to-face events, so it truly is the heart of our marketing organization within the business.
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    Cons
    Upland Software
    • Social media distribution needs improvement. Specifically a calendar for planned Tweets and a better way to schedule multiple shares of the same content.
    • System performance is somewhat slow.
    • Should be an easier way to make changes, like adding custom fields or publication destinations, to all content types, rather than one at a time.
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    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Likelihood to Renew
    Upland Software
    We are using some other systems that might have replaced Kapost, but none of them had the workflow functionality we were looking for. So, we're sticking with Kapost for now.
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    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Upland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Upland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Upland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
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    Support Rating
    Upland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Upland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Upland Software
    Workfront has a lot of great features, but Kapost was the right tool for what we needed at the time. With a team of our size, we had to make sure we weren't biting off more than we could chew and the project never got off the ground. We had to be thoughtful with how we rolled it out.
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    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Upland Software
    It's easy to expand across an organization and the software is continuously being improved with new features rolled out to all users
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    Optimizely
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Upland Software
    No answers on this topic
    Optimizely
    • The program has allowed us to meet our content goals more easily (e.g.: we publish X articles per month and track where each article is at).
    • It's helped us improve the accuracy of our information. We have SEO, content strategists, and legal teams involved in the workflow now because it's easy to manage.
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    ScreenShots

    Optimizely Content Marketing Platform Screenshots

    Screenshot of Opal, Optimizely's AI, which acts as an extension to the marketing workforce. Use cases include building comprehensive campaign and content briefs, suggesting how to best execute a campaign, creating on-brand content for any channel and providing suggestions for ongoing optimization.Screenshot of Marketing Work Request Prioritization. This streamlines and prioritizes marketing requests with dynamic intake forms, automatic routing, and integrated workflows to ensure that requested work gets completed.Screenshot of Digital Asset Management. With Optimizely Content Marketing Platform's integrated asset repository, marketers can upload, organize, and share assets within the same platform where content planning, creation, and collaboration take place.Screenshot of a Visual Calendar. Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform provides visibility into marketing activities - from content to events to campaigns - with flexibility to support changing timelines.Screenshot of the Calendar. This offers visibility into planned and scheduled content and campaigns with the ability to save and share views.