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Audience Republic

Score3 out of 10

1 Reviews and Ratings

What is Audience Republic?

Audience Republic is positioned as an all-in-one CRM & marketing platform specifically designed for events and the creator economy. The vendor claims that this solution caters to the needs of small to large-sized event organizers and companies in the creator economy. According to the vendor, professionals and industries such as event organizers, concert promoters, festival organizers, sports event organizers, conference organizers, content creators, influencers, artists, musicians, and podcasters can benefit from Audience Republic's tools for audience growth, engagement, and monetization.

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Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Mobile optimization

    Users can easily optimize emails and landing pages for mobile devices.

    Category average: 8.3

  • WYSIWYG email editor

    Users can create html emails through a drag-and-drop interface, without html coding knowledge.

    Category average: 7.5

  • Email deliverability reporting

    The software helps ensure inbox delivery of email campaigns, through features such as deliverability tests, opt-in management, bounce handling, suppression lists, dedicated IP addresses, and delivery monitoring.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Email Accessibility Tools

    This type of tool scans emails before they are sent out to ensure that design and code are optimized for accessibility across different browsers.

    Category average: 8

  • Spelling and Grammar Check

    This feature checks emails for spelling and grammatical mistakes before they are sent out.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Spam Testing

    Spam testing allows marketers to test their email against most major spam filters before sending out their email campaigns.

    Category average: 8.7

Who Buys & Uses Audience Republic

In my experience, promises the world, delivers next to nothing

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work for a marketing and events company – we use(d) Audience Republic to reach our subscribers (well over a million) to promote our events. This was done through announcements, pre-sales, on-sales, giveaways and on-going promotions.

Pros

  • Segmentation
  • EDM template refinements
  • Data acquisition

Cons

  • Integration of ticketing agencies
  • More flexible templates
  • Better customer service
  • Not lying about the fees charged to other clients

Return on Investment

  • Besides from the gamified competitions to attain data to then market to, literally nothing that I couldn't get from a competitor.
  • Audience Republic lie to us about how much their services cost. They were charging us 0.0053c per email send (and they upped this price without telling us one month), and a peer told me they were paying 0.0015c per send. In my opinion, they are not trustworthy.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Intuit Mailchimp, Braze and Campaign Monitor by Marigold

Other Software Used

Braze, MailCamp, Campaign Monitor by Marigold