Acoustic Content vs. Contentful

Acoustic Content

Contentful

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Acoustic Content	Score 1.2 out of 10	N/A	Acoustic Content (formerly Watson Content Hub) gives business owners the power to create, robust and consistent brand experiences using cloud-based, cognitive content management capabilities. Marketing and merchandising professionals can quickly select content to create relevant offers delivered across multiple channels, such as mobile, web-based or email. Acoustic is an independent spun off from IBM Watson Marketing in 2019.	N/A
Contentful	Score 6.1 out of 10	N/A	Contentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.	$300 per month

Pricing

Acoustic Content

Contentful

Editions & Modules

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Lite: $300
per month
Community: Free
Enterprise: Custom

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Acoustic Content	Contentful
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Additional Details

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Acoustic Content	Contentful
Considered Both Products	Acoustic Content Verified User Anonymous Chose Acoustic Content Acoustic Content stands out mainly in 3 areas, Digital Asset Management system AI Based metatags More secure CDN and REST API to share content All these three features play a huge role in Acoustic Content CMS in terms of finding matching images for our content, categorize … Incentivized Helpful? Madusanka Balapitiya Senior Executive ( IT & Administration ) Chose Acoustic Content I have never had any experience without IBM applications but I can confirm that compared to other content tools provided by IBM, this is one of the complete packages. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Acoustic Content Added benefit Incentivized Helpful? Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Chose Acoustic Content I haven't had experience outside of the IBM applications but can confirm that compared to other content tools provided by IBM, this is one of the more complete packages. Incentivized Helpful?	Contentful Verified User Anonymous Chose Contentful Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Contentful Didn't use other products Incentivized Helpful? Jennifer Garcia Web Marketing Manager Chose Contentful Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution Incentivized Helpful? EM Eric Mason Lead Developer Chose Contentful In the past we've used WordPress to manage documentation content. Wordpress was more flexible than Contentful but also prone to inconsistencies and we ended having a lot of hacks to accomplish various Wordpress tricks. With Contentful there's less ambiguity so content producers … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Richardson SEO Specialist Chose Contentful Contentful offers a great deal of features for a relatively low price. This is what ended up persuading us to purchase it. We also gathered that this was one of the more well-rated products out there, which was encouraging. It definitely stacks up well against its competitors. Incentivized Helpful? Nathaly Sierra Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC Chose Contentful Very similar to WordPress, but has more organizational properties than square space. Incentivized Helpful? Andrew Folts Digital Strategist Chose Contentful For custom solutions, Contentful blows every other CMS I've used out of the water. Unlike WordPress, there's no clutter to wade through, and you can simply build the infrastructure you need. It's more secure by far, and works seamlessly with modern frontend technologies, like … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Contentful Contentful was the most user-friendly platform that everyone in our company could understand. It doesn't have the integrations that Wordpress does, but it was easier for everyone in our organization to use. We've also seen good ranking and traffic from the pages created in … Incentivized Helpful? Darian Rawson Senior Designer Chose Contentful Contentful is easy and fast and cheap. I went from zero experience to loading data out of my contentful space in about an hour or more. The cost is very reasonable and compared to options like CloudCMS are a fraction of the cost. The benefit is that with a lower cost entry … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Acoustic Content

Contentful

Security

Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
	Acoustic Content 8.4 Ratings 4% above category average	Contentful 7.3 Ratings 10% below category average
Role-based user permissions	8.40 Ratings	7.30 Ratings

Platform & Infrastructure

Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
	Acoustic Content 8.4 Ratings 10% above category average	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 5% above category average
API	8.30 Ratings	8.30 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language	8.40 Ratings	7.70 Ratings

Web Content Creation

Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
	Acoustic Content 8.6 Ratings 11% above category average	Contentful 7.7 Ratings 0% below category average
WYSIWYG editor	7.40 Ratings	7.30 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness	8.30 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Admin section	8.30 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Page templates	8.30 Ratings	7.60 Ratings
Library of website themes	9.00 Ratings	7.50 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design	9.00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Publishing workflow	9.40 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Form generator	9.40 Ratings	7.00 Ratings

Web Content Management

Comparison of Web Content Management features of Product A and Product B
	Acoustic Content 8.8 Ratings 18% above category average	Contentful 8.0 Ratings 8% above category average
Content taxonomy	8.30 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
SEO support	8.40 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Bulk management	8.90 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Availability / breadth of extensions	9.40 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Community / comment management	8.90 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

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	Acoustic Content	Contentful
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User Ratings
	Acoustic Content	Contentful
Likelihood to Recommend	8.3 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Acoustic Content	Contentful
Likelihood to Recommend	It is advisable to create custom designs that call for specific programs and content without giving direct access to those programs. We still have to meet the proposed use case where it should not be used. Madusanka Balapitiya Senior Executive ( IT & Administration ) Read full review	Coming from WordPress, Contentful feels like content management as it should be. There's no clutter to get rid of, you can simply start building from scratch, and the end product is perfectly tailored to your or your clients needs. Incentivized Andrew Folts Digital Strategist Read full review
Pros	Ease of use of the tool Fast results for sales from automated merchandising Great insight into top performers Good support Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Contentful provides organized, flexible data models with support for a variety of data types and content editors (e.g. WYSIWYGs, form fields, raw text areas). Contentful has great built-in versioning features with history and draft states so it's easy to make updates and revert when needed. Contentful has an intuitive user interface and good support for multiple spaces (which can be helpful for companies that need separate projects for dev/staging/production). Incentivized EM Eric Mason Lead Developer Read full review
Cons	Application is less user friendly as some of the commonly used functions even hidden inside menus. Community support is very low as Acoustic Content is not widely used by many people. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Preview of changes prior to publishing The ability to use a spell check plug-in when working on content (it doesn't work well with Grammarly) Incentivized Nathaly Sierra Marketing Coordinator for FirstService Realty NYC Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Acoustic Content stands out mainly in 3 areas, Digital Asset Management system AI Based metatags More secure CDN and REST API to share content All these three features play a huge role in Acoustic Content CMS in terms of finding matching images for our content, categorize and sort our content automatically and finally secure way to publish our content. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Contentful was affordable and much simpler than the Java based systems and preferred over a PHP solution Incentivized Jennifer Garcia Web Marketing Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Freed up user time to call a variety of applications quicker. Allowed developer an easier tool to integrate other applications for end users. Allowed us to have a single method of application implementation and usage that is easier to debug, saving time. Incentivized Ben Williams Automation Developer (RPA and OCR Datacap) Read full review	There was no negative impact as such. Positive impact is increase in sales. More work is delivered due to reusability and other features within a time and less manual effort. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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