Curata vs. Percolate, now part of Seismic

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Curata
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Curata's content marketing platform (Curata CMP) enables more efficient content creation with greater impact on pipeline. According to the vendor, this solution enables users to: Analyze marketing and sales pipeline impact: Instantly access content metrics such as leads generated/touched and sales opportunities generated/touched by gated, un-gated and off-site content. Streamline content production: An easy to use editorial calendar to keep your team on the same page and…
$699
per Instance (no seat limits)
Percolate, now part of Seismic
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Percolate was a content marketing platform designed to help large brands create content and manage marketing campaigns. The product's capabilities have been integrated into the Seismic platform's digital marketing capabilities, and Percolate is no longer available for sale standalone.N/A
Pricing
CurataPercolate, now part of Seismic
Editions & Modules
Curata Software
$699
per Instance (no seat limits)
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CurataPercolate, now part of Seismic
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsWe have 2 solutions: - Curata CCS content curation software - Curata CMP content marketing platform (e.g., editorial calendar, analytics engine)
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Community Pulse
CurataPercolate, now part of Seismic
Considered Both Products
Curata
Chose Curata
The main difference that made me choose Curata over Percolate is that it is not complex. Curata is easier to set up, to use, and to manage. It does not involve any complicated configuration to get the content and data you need. Curata technical support is amazing, to say the …
Chose Curata
We closely considered Rallyverse before deciding on Curata. Rallyverse had superior social sharing capabilities, but Curata's microsite and email newsletter features plus the infinite content source and feed search capabilities far outweighed what Rallyverse has to offer at …
Percolate, now part of Seismic
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Percolate is the only software I used so far, which allowed me to create marketing campaigns.
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Percolate and Falcon have many similarities and provide many of the same features, however Percolate felt a bit more robust than Falcon, although it does come with a higher price tag to match. Both platforms are excellent for content approval workflows, content scheduling, and …
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Social publishing tools are very good, better than competitors. Percolate is constantly adding new features and functionality and can manage the workload and storage that Domo can’t.
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Everything is better than Percolate. It is better than the free version of HootSuite.
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Percolate provided a more robust portfolio of offerings in the social space. We felt that although Percolate was not the cheapest, that it provides the most value to our social strategy and has been instrumental in getting us to the place we are now.
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Percolate has much more functionality than Social Studio. Social Studio is really only meant to be used as a social publishing platform. Percolate does social publishing much better, has a great file management system, has a calendar for more than just social, and has the …
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
The free version of Hootsuite does not support the approval process so that did not work for our organization. Percolate was much more user friendly than Spredfast, has a more streamlined calendar view, and has more reporting features for data analysis. The approval workflow …
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
I was trained on Percolate from the time I started my position.
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Three major areas separate Percolate from the competition in my POV:
  • They view themselves as truly, an all-in-one SaaS model. Other large, enterprise platforms, like Sprinklr, have the old a la carte approach to their platforms. Everything is extra. Every new addition or …
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
I have used tools like HootSuite and trello to manage social media and different tasks and activities respectively. Trello is a great tool to keep track of your projects and campaigns. Unfortunately, Percolate is not that sophisticated. Percolate is slow compared to trello and …
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
Percolate is more robust and user-friendly than other tools we've used. The collaborative feature in particular was very attractive, and made it stand out for us against products like Sprout Social. The photo editing tool is also very useful and superior to tools that are …
Chose Percolate, now part of Seismic
The main features that attracted us to Percolate were the editorial calendar and the multimedia database. Additionally, the ability to take content beyond the usual social channels and interface with Wordpress AND bring in (paid) third party content made the purchase choice …
Features
CurataPercolate, now part of Seismic
Content Creation
Comparison of Content Creation features of Product A and Product B
Curata
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
Percolate, now part of Seismic
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
Ideation8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Approval workflows8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Content collaboration9.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Content calendar8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Network for content licensing/production00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Content Publishing
Comparison of Content Publishing features of Product A and Product B
Curata
8.0
Ratings
1% below category average
Percolate, now part of Seismic
8.4
Ratings
4% above category average
Content hub8.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Embedded CTAs8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Content distribution8.00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Content promotion8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Content automation8.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Content Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Content Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Curata
8.3
Ratings
6% above category average
Percolate, now part of Seismic
9.4
Ratings
18% above category average
Closed-loop tracking and reporting8.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Content performance analytics9.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Campaign optimization dashboard8.00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Competitive analytics8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
CurataPercolate, now part of Seismic
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.5
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CurataPercolate, now part of Seismic
Likelihood to Recommend
I liked Curata, but it depends on the use case of how it will be used as to how effective it is for someone. If you are trying to curate content it works great. Had I not been so put off by the issue mentioned earlier I would have given more effort to learn the CMS, so I am not sure how effective it really is.
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Very useful for the management, planning, and programming of all social networks, as well as marketing campaigns. One of the best tools to make life easier for community managers and automate daily tasks such as content publishing. It is my favorite for managing my clients' networks.
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Pros
  • Allows you to curate content and narrow your search parameters to pretty specific areas.
  • It learns your selections and overtime serves up better and more relevant content.
  • It works very well with WordPress, it integrates smoothly and allows you to share content on the fly with their Chrome plug-in.
  • Curata's support is great, if you need them they will help out quickly to resolve your issues.
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  • You can schedule all the planning done for each social network, with the date and time you want to publish, without any inconvenience.
  • It has many templates of campaigns and content for social networks, which facilitates the work and the workload of designers and community managers.
  • The management of the marketing campaign is very efficient, as it monitors the progress, performance, and progress of the campaign also presents a complete statistical report that helps to improve the plans and strategies used.
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Cons
  • more subscription plans as not all people need all features.
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  • Data is a mess. So unreliable. Takes so much time to create a concrete report.
  • There is no ability to export anything. No calendar PDFs, no data Excel sheets, nothing.
  • No paid management functionality.
  • Hated their listening tool abilities relative to other tools I've used.
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Likelihood to Renew
For all of the features we loved when we signed on like the microsite and search capabilities and also their customer service, we will very likely renew with Curata. We also really like the evolution we have seen of the solution, just recently a new integration with Marketo (also a vendor of ours) was announced which will be very beneficial to us in optimizing our email newsletters
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As we have grown to implement Percolate with more and more people within our company, we have also run into more features we'd like to see in the app. The Percolate team has been extremely understanding about these requests, and even visited our offices to sit and listen to exactly what we are looking for. Assuming these new features make it into production with them, we'll definitely stay with Percolate for the long term
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Implementation Rating
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Rarely has a company shown this much support during implementation. This almost got to the point where it was too much hand holding. Sometimes, social teams just want the keys to the car so they can drive it themselves instead of waiting on someone to drive along with them...
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Alternatives Considered
We closely considered Rallyverse before deciding on Curata. Rallyverse had superior social sharing capabilities, but Curata's microsite and email newsletter features plus the infinite content source and feed search capabilities far outweighed what Rallyverse has to offer at this time. We are very happy with our decision
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Three major areas separate Percolate from the competition in my POV:
  • They view themselves as truly, an all-in-one SaaS model. Other large, enterprise platforms, like Sprinklr, have the old a la carte approach to their platforms. Everything is extra. Every new addition or component comes at a cost and does not automatically update your license. Percolate has a different approach. If it is an update and it is good for the platform, you should get it. Therefore, they update the tool OFTEN and always evolving the functionality.
  • Which leads to my next point, Percolate wants to build the best-in-class social content management tool, period. Therefore, they are not chasing ways to upcharge you with new functions and modules. They focus on their core product and make it better and better.
  • Lastly, the pricing is simple and easy to understand. The cost is the cost.. no hidden details. Good luck getting that transparency with platforms like Sprinklr or Radian6.
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Return on Investment
  • It automatically finds and curates content so I can focus on other aspects of content creation.
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  • Percolate has made it much easier to communicate between teams and has provided a return on investment in that area in particular.
  • Percolate also helps save time because you are able to schedule social media posts across channels easily.
  • It has also been an easy way to work with remote team members, which is very helpful.
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ScreenShots

Curata Screenshots

Screenshot of Curata CMP content marketing platform:  Editorial calendar to optimize content production.Screenshot of Curata CMP content marketing platform:  Analytics engine to determine what content works. (simple integration with Google Analytics, marketing automation systems and Salesforce.com.Screenshot of Curata CMP content marketing platform:  Analytics engine to determine what content works. (simple integration with Google Analytics, marketing automation systems and Salesforce.com.Screenshot of Curata CCS content curation software: Complement your created content with curated content to help fuel your content marketing engine.

Percolate, now part of Seismic Screenshots

Screenshot of Percolate's integrated marketing calendarScreenshot of Percolate's integrated marketing calendar