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Ipsos Synthesio

Score8.8 out of 10

20 Reviews and Ratings

What is Ipsos Synthesio?

Synthesio, an Ipsos company (acquired 2019) offers social monitoring and engagement tools. Synthesio competes with major listening vendors like Radian6 and Sysomos. A point of differentiation is that Synthesio offers a mix of technology and human analysis. In their view, human analysis is required to validate and interpret the data. Customers are large, particularly French, brands.

Powerful & fast social media management tool, a big rival of Sprinklr

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have used Synthesio for the brand's needs. It was mostly when it became compulsory for the brand to have a strong social media impact and presence. Social media monitoring is getting really important for brands who focus on consumers & their complaints. We were looking for a tool that can help us resolve this issue.

Pros

  • Social Listening
  • Social media monitoring
  • Social accounts hygiene
  • Brand safety & health
  • Consumer engagement

Cons

  • It really works well. It provides an overall marketing solution like other tools in the market.
  • Cost should be a little bit decreased as it is a big pain point for brand managers to go with a tool with high costs.
  • Synthesio has a lot of potentials but the sales reps were not good at selling it. I think it only happened to me, maybe others may have not faced this problem.

Most Important Features

  • Social media reports
  • Listening data / historical data
  • Brand health

Return on Investment

  • It has helped us understanding the on going topics on our social page quite well.
  • Really helped us in community management in due time for social accounts. Saved a lot of clicks and time as well as resources.
  • Employees feel really happy with the tool because it lets them do the work fast and securely.

Alternatives Considered

Sprinklr Modern Research, Sprinklr Modern Marketing & Advertising and Talkwalker

Other Software Used

Sprinklr Modern Marketing & Advertising, Sprinklr Modern Research, Talkwalker

Highly recommended for social listening

Pros

  • Aggregating brand mentions.
  • Filtering out extraneous noise.
  • Pulling in mentions from multiple sites and platforms.
  • Filter setup for multiple topics and keywords.

Cons

  • I’d love better graphics when I pull reports.
  • The sentiment data is still inaccurate.
  • We are unable to weed out all mentions of the arena associated with the bank.

Return on Investment

  • Better customer support in real time.
  • Better data on competitive trends.
  • Live monitoring of topics of concern to the bank for reputation management.

Alternatives Considered

Sprout Social

Other Software Used

Khoros Care (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium), Workfront

Great Value

Pros

  • Synthesio has an unlimited volume, which helps us to not worry about going over budget. This helps us focus on refining our search to pull in the mentions that have the most value.
  • Synthesio has an excellent support team. They are always available to answer any questions we have.

Cons

  • The dashboards are just ok. I think there could be a lot of improvement on the visual look of the dashboards. That being said, if you're just into the data. It works great.

Return on Investment

  • Synthesio has helped us with online reputation providing us with an online reputation score that is measurable. It has also helped us monitor our brand for any crisis that may be happening online.

Other Software Used

Khoros Marketing (Formerly Spredfast + Lithium), Socialbakers Suite

Synthesio makes social listening easier

Pros

  • User friendly modules
  • Easy to use
  • Interactive data charts

Cons

  • No option to choose time
  • Difficult navigation
  • Expensive

Return on Investment

  • Helped us in tracking
  • Made daily news sharing easy
  • Helped in improving our presence

Other Software Used

Pardot

Synthesio delivers Data Analysis with Visual Reports & great customer service

Pros

  • HashTag Tracking - Pre Event, Post Event Data Analysis
  • Infographic Designs.
  • Customer Service.

Cons

  • Realtime data at events.

Return on Investment

  • Synthesio Data Tracking helped us provide ROI to our sponsors and garnish additional Sponsorships.
  • Synthesio provided clean professional looking Infographics to help increase Social Shares on both our blog posts and social media accounts.