Crowdbooster (discontinued) vs. Emplifi

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Crowdbooster (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Crowdbooster was a tool to measure the success of Twitter and Facebook posts, with visualizations to track retweets, and track potential impressions created, likes, comments, and how many shares a Facebook post has received. Crowdbooster is no longer available.N/A
Emplifi
Score 7.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Emplifi offers a platform that enables brands to manage social marketing, commerce, and care. At the core of this platform is Emplifi Fuel — the outcome and enablement layer that connects all modules across marketing, commerce, and care. Fuel empowers brands to optimize the customer journey, unifying data, automation, and AI-driven insights to ensure every interaction drives meaningful business outcomes. The platform's core capabilities include:…N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Crowdbooster (discontinued)
Chose Crowdbooster (discontinued)
It is a platform that is singularly focused. It does not have a lot of the additions that come stock with other platforms such as robust reporting or deeper insights past schedule times. It is also a stand-alone platform and a lot of its primary functionality can be found in …
Chose Crowdbooster (discontinued)
Crowdbooster was cost effective and provided an intuitive, easy to use interface to generate reports quickly and easily. I felt some of the other options were priced either similarly or higher, and were more complicated to use. I was really looking for a solution that was …
Chose Crowdbooster (discontinued)
I use many different sites for social media analytics. Crowdbooster is used for overall statistics (followers, mentions, retweets) and monthly data and archived tweets. The other main sites used for Twitter are Cision, Radian6 and Hootsuite.
Emplifi
Chose Emplifi
A better tool in terms of measurement
Chose Emplifi
Sprout Social, Brandwatch and Hootsuite
Chose Emplifi
I think that Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud is unique, has all in one super easy to use and if you are on social media work is a tool that you need to use no only the big brands, Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud is for everyone who want grow up in this industry and doesn't exist …
Chose Emplifi
Its so much better and more stable and easier to work with their team If you're on Agora you should switch, you wont regret it and you'll probably get a better price. I used to deal with Agora breaking in some odd way every week, and Emplifi Service Cloud hasn't broken in any …
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi's support is responsive and quick to act on our requests, which puts them above competitors in my opinion.
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud it's a more complete tool to manage social media content and data insights and analysis. As a global organization, we do not have so many issues with multiple users, permissions and we can have a big picture of all accounts - as well as their …
Chose Emplifi
Brandwatch has a bigger scope on listening outside conversations on Twitter or other channels such as Influencers. Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud has that ability but works best in helping us manage our own scope (eg. fanpages and accounts) like comments form our fans and brand …
Chose Emplifi
Kustomer is great for our Email and Chat tickets, but was less optimized for social media. It was less organized regarding incoming channel (including public comments with direct messages in the same ticket) which made it difficult to accurately reply to customers with the info …
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud is more complete in every way when compared to Facelift Cloud.
Chose Emplifi
We selected Live Advisor Go In Store because at that moment, it was complete and more useful. However now our brands are looking for something different, something that will help the Live Advisor to make things better and easier. We are looking for solutions more into 1 to 1 …
Chose Emplifi
In relation to Talkwalker, Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud has a better performance when we talk about our own publications. On the "open sea", TalkWalker has excellent performance and coverage.
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud is way more all-in-one, has more features and is very innovative compared to Sprout Social. There were a lot of bugs in Sprout, but they could include boosting posts (where it usually messed up, so in that way I understand Emplifi's decision not …
Chose Emplifi
I never used other similar products.
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud had more options, but it was a long time ago and I wasn't in the finance/ops team who took the decision. Also, the advocacy models are costly, why we are not using them still. I also think that the social listening option/ tool was very relevant …
Chose Emplifi
I feel that all three of these tools are great, and it may even come down to personal preference on minor things (such as the way certain information is presented or visualized) when determining which is best. For us, Emplifi Social Marketing Cloud's strong features come at a …
Chose Emplifi
The reporting part is much more fancy and easy to use than BRANDWATCH! However, I use more the ENGAGE and PUBLISH functions of BRANDWATCH because I'm more efficient with it.
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi seems to offer very standard products at a lower price than competitors.
Chose Emplifi
We have used Sprinklr to source UGC content as well, but found the platform to be much more time intensive when searching for the desired images. Additionally, Emplifi's UGC tool has incremental tools the other platforms do not provide, including the ability to share images on …
Chose Emplifi
We are assessing new functionalities to bring retail attention to our website. Within the scope of this vision we found a product in Emplifi's portfolio that could help us on moving in the right direction. At the moment is on hold because it is not a priority in our strategic …
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi seemed a better solution than the others that we trialled when looking for a solution. the reason we chose Emplifi (then Social Bakers) was its slick dashboards, and user-friendliness when it came to setting up dashboards and creating personalised tags on our content. …
Chose Emplifi
I'm able to fine-tune reporting more thoroughly with Emplifi Social Commerce Cloud.
Chose Emplifi
Emplifi is a more complete tool than others and they're more updated with trends (like scheduling reels)
Features
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Listening/monitoring
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Ratings
Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings7.10 Ratings
Sentiment analysis00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Broad channel coverage00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Publishing
Comparison of Publishing features of Product A and Product B
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Emplifi
7.4
Ratings
8% below category average
Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Audience targeting00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Content optimization00 Ratings6.80 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Engagement
Comparison of Engagement features of Product A and Product B
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Emplifi
6.3
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23% below category average
Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings6.60 Ratings
Customer interaction histories00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Bulk actions00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Marketing
Comparison of Marketing features of Product A and Product B
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Emplifi
7.8
Ratings
1% above category average
Lead generation00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Content marketing00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Paid media management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Channel coverage/integration
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Ratings
Emplifi
7.2
Ratings
16% below category average
Twitter00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Facebook00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
LinkedIn00 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Google+00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Instagram00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Pinterest00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
YouTube00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting/analytics
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Ratings
Emplifi
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Real-time tracking00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
Competitor analysis00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Account management
Comparison of Account management features of Product A and Product B
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Ratings
Emplifi
7.3
Ratings
9% below category average
Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Mobile access00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Small Businesses
Agency Analytics
Agency Analytics
Score 9.9 out of 10
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Echobox Social
Echobox Social
Score 9.7 out of 10
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
CoSchedule Marketing Suite
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
1-Social
1-Social
Score 8.0 out of 10
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Social Suite by Reputation.com
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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8.8
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Likelihood to Renew
7.5
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9.1
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Usability
10.0
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7.3
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Availability
9.0
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Performance
9.0
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Support Rating
2.0
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9.0
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Online Training
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6.0
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Implementation Rating
9.0
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9.1
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great tool if you are time and resource-strapped and need assistance in expanding the reach and use of your social media platforms. It is also more beneficial to use if you are a marketing agency. Though you can use it as an individual or individual organization, it might be too much of an upfront set up cost to make it very useful long term.
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- Very well suited to grabbing top-level and more in-depth social performance data, across campaigns and BAU activity. - Not as well suited for moments where you need benchmarking or context of your performance compared with a previous time frame. This can be a bit clunky to go back and forth with as it requires multiple dashboards or consistent manual time-frame changes.
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Pros
  • Timed social media posts - Crowdbooster provides the opportunity to schedule social media posts allowing you to work on other important social media tasks.
  • Simply beautiful tracking - There are millions of ways to measure social media impact. Crowdbooster offers the most important and relevant measurements in simplified charts..
  • Great UI - Crappy UI = crappy experience. Crowdbooster's UI is easy to navigate. It won't take months to learn where all the buttons are.
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  • Publishing - takes a bit of time, but publishing all content together makes planning and execution much more efective
  • Community - really simple one board collecting of all our social messages makes replying simple
  • dashboards - widgets and customisation allow for multiple dashboards tracking various campaigns and goals
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Cons
  • The ranked order of twitter followers and the number of "tweet impressions" did not help that much. Those "tweet impressions" were not really an estimate of how many people were actually reading my tweet. It was simply a sum of followers of the person retweeting a tweet and the sum of all followers from a subsequent retweet of the initial retweet. All this told me was the best case scenario I could expect if ALL followers of a person that retweeted saw my tweet. This is not a true measure of "twitter footprint" – since the “signal to noise” ratio in Twitter is very low.
  • There was no system in place to track "clicked links" for links embedded in tweets and/or facebook wall posts. Hootsuite did a good job of this – but only for twitter.
  • The list of recommended times to tweet were always "on the hour" (i.e. 10 a.m, 1 p.m.). Never were the times ever at "half past the hour" etc. An independent study that I did on my own using Google Analytics (and campaign links using google's URL builder) helped me determine that my optimal "Tweet time" during the week is 3:30 p.m. ET. More importantly, the recommended times seemed to be roughly the same on the weekends - which I find strange given that social media behavior does change on the weekends.
  • Occasionally, in my facebook ranked table of "loyal fans", I would see people in there that had not "liked" or "commented" on a post for months at a stretch and the "look back" period of the table was only around 7 days or so. Hence, I occasionally had to question the accuracy of that table.
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  • Would love more robust search parameters for labels. ex. search for tickets labeled 'Availability' AND 'United States' but excluding any that are only one of those labels
  • Ability to break conversations into multiple tickets; so labels can be more accurate if the same person reaches out again after 3 months with a totally different question
  • The social account quick view doesn't always load the follower count for people reaching out to us. it makes it slower to manager messages from high level creators
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Likelihood to Renew
Simple to use and a great value for what it offers. It has a simple but clean interface and it provides fantastic historical data you can use to measure your efforts online. By using a tool like Crowdbooster, you can see what is working with your audience and what isn't. From there, you can start tweaking your strategies
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the balance between quality and price si perfectperfect for agency that have many client to manage, because it helps us to save time (we don't have to plan content from every single account, only one click to look at different community and moderate...)it also help the team works: senior can review content direcly from emplifi; labeling DM/comments as done help us to track where a collegue stop and we have to startIt makes the content approval from clients very easy
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Usability
I found it fairly intuitive and easy to use. The information is laid out cleanly, and the most important information appears at a glance on the home page. However, I have worked with other users who had a hard time switching between platforms and identifying where other information was buried. It's not always clear that something is a clickable button! The option to export results is also a bit buried, and not integrated with the date range option.
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Since the main use of the Live Advisor is on the website that doesn't have e-commerce capabilities, it has been challenging to attach an specific metric to Emplifi's solutions and their usability in our websites. The Live Advisor is helping us to deliver our unique sale proposition in digital channels, which is great, but it is difficult to assign a higher mark in usability due to the limitation just explained.
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Support Rating
I do not think it is as supported as it once was when it first arrived on the social media scene. It is an older platform whose main functionality may have already ran its course.
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Every time I've reached out to our account manager or even support in general, they've been there. I love the fact that I can always ask for help. Also, the chat function within the tool is helpful as well. It is something I always look for in a solution because when you're in the middle of working, and there is an issue, you can quickly reach out and get an answer.
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Online Training
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The online training was fine but, in the end, the best way to learn any product is by actually using it.
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Implementation Rating
If you can demo a free trial, that is definitely the best way to see if this will fit your program's specific needs.
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The platform is so easy to understand that no "expensive consulting firm" is necessary to implement it!
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Alternatives Considered
Crowdbooster was cost effective and provided an intuitive, easy to use interface to generate reports quickly and easily. I felt some of the other options were priced either similarly or higher, and were more complicated to use. I was really looking for a solution that was flexible and that would grow with our program and staff.
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Its so much better and more stable and easier to work with their team If you're on Agora you should switch, you wont regret it and you'll probably get a better price. I used to deal with Agora breaking in some odd way every week, and Emplifi Service Cloud hasn't broken in any way in the almost a year we've used it.
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Return on Investment
  • Increased efficiency. I am able to generate useful snapshot reports in seconds. Particularly useful when you need answers fast (such as on a phone call).
  • Peace of mind. I am able to compare the data in Crowdbooster to what is exported from Facebook and Twitter.
  • Quicker, simpler evaluation of results. I am able to more easily compare impressions with engagement data to see what is working, and what should change. Particularly useful in day-to-day analysis.
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  • Volaris was able to improve their positive sentiment by 7% in their user-generated content (UGC).
  • The optimization of content management workflows led to them becoming the second-most-popular airline brand in Mexico and the USA in 2022 according to Emplifi.
  • By tracking our content performance with Emplifi, we were able to improve our creatives and increase the total shares by 15% vs. previous the year.
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