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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Visible Intelligence, discontinued

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AVisible Intelligence, developed by Visible Technologies and formerly offered under the name Cymfony, was a listening tool with an analytics dashboard. Visible was acquired by Cision, and later discontinued.N/A

    Zoho Social

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AZoho Social is a comprehensive social media management platform designed for businesses of all sizes and agencies. It is used to schedule and publish posts, manage conversations—including direct messages, comments, and mentions—across multiple platforms, track keywords, competitors, and hashtags, and generate reports from one dashboard. Supported platforms: Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and Threads), Google Business Profile, YouTube, Pinterest, Mastodon, X (formerly Twitter),…

    $15

    per month

    Pricing
    Visible Intelligence, discontinuedZoho Social
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    per month per user
    Standard
    $15
    per month per user
    Professional
    $40
    per month per user
    Premium
    $65
    per month 3 users
    Agency
    $320
    per month 5 users
    Agency Plus
    $460
    per month 5 users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Visible Intelligence, discontinuedZoho Social
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Add Ons Users at $10 / user / month Brands $10 / brand / month Discount available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    Visible Intelligence, discontinuedZoho Social
    Considered Both Products
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Zoho
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Would buy again
    320 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    300 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    317 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    287 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    307 Answers
    Features
    Visible Intelligence, discontinuedZoho Social
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    8.1
    372 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings7.9266 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings8.3366 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    8.9
    446 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings9.2444 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.4313 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings8.9366 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    8.6
    361 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings8.3306 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings8.8340 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    8.9
    313 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings8.6233 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings9.1304 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    9.2
    437 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Twitter00 Ratings9.2389 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings9.2428 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings9.2384 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings9.3247 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings9.3359 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    8.4
    358 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.7356 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.2219 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of Visible Intelligence, discontinued and Zoho Social
    Feature
    Visible Intelligence, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Social
    9.1
    391 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings9.1298 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings9.2373 Ratings
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    Mention
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Sendible
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Mention
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Vista Social
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Social Suite by Reputation.com
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Visible Intelligence, discontinuedZoho Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.6
    (2 ratings)
    9.2
    (452 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (279 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (220 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.6
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Visible Intelligence, discontinuedZoho Social
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    The only time I have trouble recommending Visible is to my clients of specific markets. We work with several McDonald's co-ops and we can't narrow our searches to a specific region for example, to the state of Iowa or Kansas City region.
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    Zoho
    We have a few videos to share on our social media accounts: Linked in, facebook, instagram, twitter, youtube, another personal youtube account, and tiktok. First of the videos will be shared now, but the second one should be shared 3 hours later, and the third one 6 hours later. Also, with some text, on each share... You give this job to a personnel and thrust they will be fast enough to login those accounts and share the content almost at the same time, with no mistakes on the texts we use, and you thing you are done, right? It doesn't work that way in real life situations. However, you can share the same text and video to every platform momentarily by clicking a button by Zoho Social. you can also schedule posts to be shared later at a certain time and date. Now, you can concentrate to develop the character and details of your campaign. And, also, now, you have a personnel who can be useful at some other work
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • The way the cloud of related terms, a.k.a "social media differentiating terms", was organized into a chart with the frequency of appearance was extremely helpful. Each term was also a link to other terms that may be related to your research as well, which was insightful.
    • Visible Intelligence allows you to view the differentiating terms across platforms. This is particularly a useful tool when trying to compare and understand what is being said and where exactly (Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
    • Most of the social media analytical tools allow you to view "sample content". However, and I find this extremely useful in many cases, Visible Intelligence allows you to directly connect with the person that posted the content. Because of such feature more clarification can be accomplished.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Social helps us develop posts, and it facilitates the automated publishing, which is vital in sharing the content we want.
    • Besides, Zoho Social is fruitful in customer engagement plan, where the software manages different accounts, and there is free communications throughout.
    • Finally, there is social media evaluation, monitoring, and analytics, and all of them brings to us an inference that is accurate and digital.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Discontinued Products
    • Firehose terms. I wish there was a place in setting or somewhere that let us know what firehose terms we currently have. To make it really great it would be nice for it to also show a history of what terms we had in the past with dates and the start dates of current firehose terms. I can't tell you how many times we've had to reach out to our rep to let us know what we currently have in place and when you have multiple users in the agency using the tool, it's near impossible to keep track of when changes were made.
    • Exports, I wish there was a way to have larger exports. And if you can't, an easier way to break down larger exports. For example, say my timeframe is only 1 day and I have over 20,000 results in that day– there is no way for me to export all of those results by breaking it down because my only options are most recent, most relevant, klout, most confident, most influential, most followers, positive, negative. There's no option to break down 1 day by the first 20,000 then the second 20,000 and so on. Instead I have to then manually break it down by media type and hope each one of those is less than 20,000.
    • Author influence, I know this algorithm is tricky but at the very least I think it could be better explained within the tool so when clients ask questions we can answer them. It could be nice to have some filtering options with this because several authors get a 99 score and it's not valuable information.
    • Tagging, when tagging content it is extremely annoying that I can't add new tags in the "select tags" drop down. It takes too much time to go in to where I can add new tags and then go back to where I was.
    • It'd also be nice to have setting for a stream where only a certain folder or folders of tags display. So when I'm in client x's search the only tags that display are client x's instead of all 5 clients and I have to keep scrolling through to find what I need.
    • Archive, when you hit archive on a post it does nothing. It stays in your search and ends up in all you charts which skews your data. What I do now is I created an actual tag called "archive" (because if I didn't tag it with that and I exported everything nothing in the excel doc tells me I hit Visible's archive button for that result) I export the search, I remove everything I tagged as "archive" in excel and then I manual make charts. When I hit Visible's "archive" button it should be completely removed and if I made a mistake and I want to un-archive it, there should be a section where I can go and see everything I archived and be able to un-archive it.
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    Zoho
    • I wanted to use the ability to have Zoho queue the posts, but I wanted to choose the start time of the first post for a few days in the future and I did not find an easy way to set that.
    • I wish there were a box with a cheat sheet of the sizes that each social media platform allows for it's video and pictures in the dialogue box for posting so I can be sure to choose appropriate content.
    • I do think it's a bit expensive, especially for my needs, but I like the ease of use. I will continue to do what I can to get this service discounted until I can no longer afford it.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    I loved the way Visible Intelligence was similar yet different from Radian6. Although I have more experience with Radian6, it still wasn't hard to use and get familiar with Visible Intelligence. I personally liked how easy it was to do your "thing" and conduct your analysis using VI. That is plenty of reason for me to consider re-using it in any project that requires social media analysis.
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    Zoho
    Zoho Social is the BEST! I have found the perfect solution to social media marketing! It is extremely affordable and I highly recommend it! Create a post once and post it to 5 or more social media platforms! LOVE IT!! :)
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    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    It's easy to user once you become familiar with it
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    Zoho
    The reason behind assigning this rating stems from the software's remarkable ability to seamlessly integrate intricate functionalities with an incredibly user-friendly interface. It strikes an exceptional balance between sophisticated features and ease of use, making it a standout solution in its category. The software's attention to user experience, coupled with its comprehensive project tracking capabilities, has undoubtedly left a positive impression. This rating reflects my appreciation for how effortlessly it empowers teams to manage projects, collaborate effectively, and achieve their goals with utmost efficiency
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    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    My rep is always helpful and is timely with my requests
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    Zoho
    I have not needed support for Zoho Social. This comment requirement is confusing to me as I must find text to fill the requirement of a minimum of 50 words. There should be a non-applicable button that allows either user to skip a question or then require a shorter explanation like in my first sentence. Geez, now I have to give a rating while never using the feature.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    Zoho
    Zoho Social is a great social media management tool that allows businesses, and individuals, to manage multiple social media accounts, schedule posts, track analytics, and engage with followers. It competes well with other social media management tools such as Hootsuite, Buffer, Sprout Social, Agora Pulse, and Hubspot. Zoho Social stands out for its integration capabilities with other Zoho applications and affordability for small to medium-sized businesses. Each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses, and businesses should evaluate them based on their specific needs and goals. The biggest fallacy for Zoho is its restriction on scheduling tools on the free plan who have social and personal needs. I believe this can be circumvented by Zoho periodically making an advertisement to one's feed.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Faster/better content analysis.
    • Faster return time of reports.
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    Zoho
    • I had a month-long delay in launching my website. Zoho Social allowed me to continue to build an audience and anticipation while the website technical issues were worked out.
    • The free trial meant I could give it a good try before spending any of my precious startup budget.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Zoho Social Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Zoho Social interface, which appears when logging into an account. It provides navigation to switch between brands, monitor follower growth, and analyze post performance across connected channels—offering a unified view of an organization's social media health, posts, and interactions.Screenshot of the interface to publish content across all connected channels at once, or by selecting specific ones individually. It also offers the option to schedule posts for later or use SmartQ to automatically pick the best time for optimal engagement.Screenshot of the interface to manage all social media conversations, including direct messages, comments, and mentions, across all channels in a single unified inbox.Screenshot of the Monitor feature, used to track keywords, relevant accounts, and content, with notifications.Screenshot of an example of Zoho Social's data-driven insights, used to crunch numbers and generate reports.Screenshot of the Social Media Calendar, used to plan and deliver experiences.