Talkwalker by Hootsuite vs. Tracx

Talkwalker is well suited for big companies and agencies that are looking for a long-term solution to keep track of the industry and/or their brands and key competitors. While setup requires a bit of dedication (especially in terms of custom filters and tags), once it's done, the tool will give the user a lot of flexibility to analyze the conversations and find the relevant results that answer the business questions. Companies just looking for a tool to track a short time period, or simple things like Twitter hashtags, won't take advantage of the full capabilities of this tool. Therefore, they could feel frustrated when comparing the outcomes/usage versus the costs.

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I used Tracx to live-post for the Super Bowl. It made my life MUCH easier being able to post on Facebook and Twitter in one browser and watch the engagement live.

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• Talkwalker helps you monitor online mentions so you can stay aware of what's being said about your company. Social listening is more important than ever.
• Talkwalker also helps you delve deeper into the social insights to track patterns and give you data that can be helpful in the future as you plan your marketing efforts.
• Talkwalker is one of the only products like it that incorporates AI and is, according to some, on the cutting edge in its field.

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• Deep listening skills, pulling data from news sources, blogs, Twitter and Facebook pages.
• Geomapping. Tracx has deep geotagging capabilities which allows you to actually pinpoint a tweet or user post.

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• A recent update has made adding filters to the dashboard far more convoluted than necessary.
• Many metrics are displayed as "3.4M", it would be great if you could hover over that number to see the full "3,371,000".
• The tagging feature is buggy and often needs to be done twice to tag the mentions applied in the rule.

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• Non-intuitive ways of classifying data (posts, interactions, mentions, etc)
• Different way of using Boolean operators than other platforms
• Data bandwidth cap - if you hit the limit the platform shuts off which can happen at inopportune times

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Love it! In most cases, Talkwalker is a no-brainer: I can confidently recommend it to clients.

Tracx is a solid software for identifying customer sentiment that would otherwise go unheard and undocumented by our company. We're able to report to our CEO the good and the bad with actual data and do so on an attractive interface. It is also essential in helping us prepare queries well in advance.

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Despite all the functionalities available on the platform, I never felt overwhelmed or confused

Talkwalker gets the job done at a basic level. It performs regular indexing of existing webpages and tracks the instances in which a particular brand or company is mentioned. Especially for being free, this is an awesome resource. However, it should be said that this product does not perform nearly at the level of the paid options.

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They are very helpful, but can sometimes be a little too quick and not explain things in as great a depth as we would like. They have great staff and programs, and we don't really have any other major complaints. Support is very responsive and helpful when need be.

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I have yet to find another tool that would provide me with such a detailed information per query. It's such a find! Plus, I get separate emails per a search query and I'm able to archive those emails to the appropriate folders and always have a way of looking back. It's very useful for building monthly reports.

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Tracx covers multiple platforms, including Facebook, which Keyhole removed from its offerings. While we loved NUVI and its interface (very easy to use and sleek), it could not track specific mentions of certain influencers. This was the major deciding factor. Additionally, they weren't overly salesy and didn't do the whole sales song and dance. We told them we had interviewed about 10 softwares (truth) and had heard it all. We were looking for something very specific. They gave us a demo and then a trial. They also allowed us to build into our contract that if the software did not do as we were promised, we could get out of the contract. Their customer service has been excellent

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• Having learned how to better leverage the system has resulted in a greater diversity in projects and clients that we didn't have the capabilities to service before, which has in turn increased our visibility to the wider company.
• It has reduced the amount of time it takes to do reporting from traditional desk research and utilizing other monitoring tools.

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• Tracx has had a positive impact on our business objectives. We are able to determine what our audiences needs are and better optimize our content.
• It allows us to schedule our social posts ahead of time which in turn saves us time from having to post them natively on each platform.

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